Quotes About Diligence

There is scarcely anything that is right that we cannot hope to accomplish by labor and perseverance. But the first must be earnest and the second unremitting.

If a thing's worth doing at all, it's worth doing well.

Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful.

I took my .38 out and looked to see that there were bullets in all the proper places. I knew there would be, but it did no harm to be careful. And I'd seen Clint Eastwood do it once in the movies.

Lazy people, the truly lazy people live on information, strategies, ideas, plans and many other criticals, simply to spend one hour of hard work and make the rest feel like a breeze.

Praying without fervency is like hunting with a dead dog.

Be a lamp unto yourselves! Work out your liberation with diligence! Fill your mind with compassion!

No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.

Keep working even when no one is watching.

With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.

Any business or industry that pays equal rewards to its goof-off and its eager beavers sooner or later will find itself with more goof-offs than eager beavers.

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.

If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.

Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

One way of preventing disease is worth fifty ways of curing it.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.

It is not the hours of practice that matter...it's what you put into the hours that counts.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

I've learned that I can pretty much do anything I've wanted to as long as I was methodical and diligent about it. It may not sound very exciting really, but it works.

Remember that a wish held fervently turns into belief, and a belief held diligently becomes reality.