Quotes About Diligence

In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.

For what I lack in experience I make up for in diligence.

This did not prevent him from going to print shop every morning and working as conscientiously as ever, following the advice of Yochanan ben Zakkai: 'If you are planting an olive tree when you learn that the Messiah has come, finish planting the olive tree and then go to greet the messiah.

Though I had read the story many times before, I never realized until that moment that shepherds carefully keep track of their flocks by constantly counting, continually checking.

Times never change when there's a need for honest work to be done.

Are you lazy or just incompetent?

I just take everything one at a time and make sure everything I do is the best.

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

Studying goes deeper than mere reading. There are surface nuggets to be gathered but the best of the gold is underneath, and it takes time and labor to secure it.

Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.

Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.

Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.

Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

Nobody who gets too damned relaxed builds up much flying time.

Well, I'm working all the time to stay out of trouble!

One has to wait without impatience for what should come, and yet at the same time do everything within one's power as though one were impatient and as though one were solely responsible.

Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result.

Lose no time; be always employed in something useful.

Any time things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.

Do not waste your time on light, weak, milk­toast ministries and books

Gentlemen should not waste their time on trivial games -- they should play go[3]

I've known a whole lot of bulls in my time, and their work is never done.

When I have time, I'll be a good girl and do my chores.

Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.