Quotes About Diligence

A ton of prayer will never produce what an ounce of obedience will.

No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.

with all prayer (Eph. 6:18)" All sorts of prayer- public, private, mental, vocal. Do not be diligent in one kind of prayer and negligent in others... let us use all.

Prayer is no substitute for work; equally true is it that work is no substitute for prayer.

The heavens, with their everlasting faithfulness, look down on no sadder contradiction than the sluggard and the slattern in their prayers.

Labor, you know, is prayer.

The lazy man does not, will not, cannot pray, for prayer demands energy.

Work as if you were to live one hundred years pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

One who prays ceaselessly is one who combines prayer with work and work with prayer.

Don't be discouraged if the answer to your prayer does not come immediately. Study, ponder, and pray, sincerely having faith, and live the commandments.

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.

Think not of the amount to be accomplished, the difficulties to be overcome, or the end to be attained, but set earnestly, at the little task at your elbow, letting that be sufficient for the day.

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

As was said by Thomas Jefferson, "the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

Celerity is never more admir'dThan by the negligent.

That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in, and the best of me is diligence.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

I am slow of study.

To business that we love, we rise betime and go to't with delight.

Little things are little things; but faithfulness in little things is a very great thing.

If we don't understand how seriously ill we are, we don't pursue the remedy with the required diligence. If we are slightly ill, we take an aspirin. If we are dying, we passionately pursue a cure. The cure is not forced on us; it is offered to us.4

The happy Warrior... is he... who, with a natural instinct to discern what knowledge can perform, is diligent to learn; abides by this resolve, and stops not there, but makes his moral being his prime care.

Success in any endeavor requires single-minded attention to detail and total concentration.