Quotes About Diligence

The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.

Let humility be always at work, like the bee at the honeycomb, or all will be lost.

A feverish display of over-zeal, At the first outset, is an obstacle To all success; water, however cold, Will penetrate the ground by slow degrees.

Good actions lead to success, as good medicines to a cure: a healthy man is joyful, and a diligent man attains learning; a just man gains the reward of his virtue.

When you play, play hard when you work, don't play at all.

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

I am only an average man, but by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

The greatest gift life has to offer is the opportunity to work hard at work worth doing.

I am no advocate of senseless and excessive cramming in studies, but a boy should work, and should work hard, at his lessons -- in the first place, for the sake of what he will learn, and in the next place, for the sake of the effect upon his own character of resolutely settling down to learn it. Shiftlessness, slackness, indifference in studying, are almost certain to mean inability to get on in other walks of life.

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

It is inexcusable to refuse to work, to work slackly or perversely, or to mar the work of others.

There is filth on the floor, and it must be scraped up with the muck-rake.

I can never afford to be in arrears with anything that I have to do; I must always be abreast or ahead of my tasks.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

Remember always thine end, and how the time which is lost returneth not. Without care and diligence thou shalt never get virtue. If thou beginnest to grow cold, it shall begin to go ill with thee, but if thou givest thyself unto zeal thou shalt find much peace, and shalt find thy labour the lighter because of the grace of God and the love of virtue.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

A genius is just a talented person who does his homework.

Everything comes to he who hustles while he waits.

To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.

Give us, O Lord, a steadfast heart, which no unworthy affection may drag downwards; give us an unconquered heart, which no tribulation can wear out; give us an upright heart, which no unworthy purpose may tempt aside. Bestow upon us also, O Lord our God, understanding to know you, diligence to seek you, wisdom to find you, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace you; through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

All work, even cotton spinning, is noble; work is alone noble…. A life of ease is not for any man, nor for any god.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.