 | Walter Aimwell - 1865 - 298 oldal
...have noticed another fault of yours, and that is, you are rather apt to slight your work. My motto is, if a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well." "Mother has often talked to me about that," said Ella. " I suppose the trouble with me, is, I always... | |
 | 1865 - 786 oldal
...that of others : " Whatsoever thy hand findethto do, do it with thy might." (Ecoles, ix. 10.) If the thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well ; and, in little things as well as great, we muet show that we are in earnest. There must be no idling, but... | |
 | 1866 - 404 oldal
...afford time to write carefully, excuse us i wo happen to be in such a hurry as to neglect to answer. If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well. YOUNG FAEMEB. — What kind of an organization does it require to make a successful farmer f An».... | |
 | 1866 - 684 oldal
...doue, go; if not, send." " Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves." " If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well/' One day he overheard a labourer who was passing exclaim, " Hej ! but that's a working chap ; he's always... | |
 | 1867 - 398 oldal
...nothing slurred over, nor done in slovenly fashion. The builder acted upon that excellent principle, " If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well." He had no workmen under him ; he was architect, carpenter, bricklayer, painter — all in one ; inside... | |
 | 1869 - 300 oldal
...to go for tracts, not only for their own personal reading, but also for general distribution. Surely if a thing is worth doing at all it is worth doing well; and if the Tract depot be not worth attending to, we know not what is. But it will, perhaps, be said in... | |
 | 1870 - 444 oldal
...and that a business letter may лв well be awkwardly worded, if only the writer's meaning is plain. If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well; and business letters are not excepted from the rule. There is great efficacy in a wellworded, graceful... | |
 | 1870 - 858 oldal
...negligence, no delay, no ignoble, much less vicious, self-indulgence, no half-heartedness in anything; if a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing in your best possible style. Look to yourself^" your spiritual self, your moral self, your self-improvement,... | |
 | John William Kirton - 1873 - 244 oldal
...is the 11 7th Psalm. The middle verse is Psalm cxviii. 8. X. Consult Hie Bible with earnestness. " If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well," we are told ; and this is especially the case with the reading and study of the Bible. Earnestness... | |
 | Samuel Michael Haughton - 1885 - 290 oldal
...practising gymnastics, reading a book, helping a friend — whatever it is, do it as well as you can. ' If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well,' is a good old English motto. " Secondly, never do what you know to be wrong. Often you will feel inclined,... | |
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He acts upon the principle that if a thing is worth doing at all it is worth doing well: — and the thing that he "does" especially well is the public. 
