Quotes About Diligence

Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.

Without labor nothing prospers.

Learn to labour and to wait.

Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling.

I'm very good at getting up in the morning - so much of my life has been spent on film sets where we start at the crack of dawn.

I believe that in life, you have to give things your best shot, do your best. You have to focus on what needs to be done, do the right thing, not the popular thing.

It's not what we do once—it's what we do once a day…day in and day out…every day that brings lasting change into our lives.

Where there is no will, there is always a way out.

Life is a great asset we must all endeavor to acquire, keep and daily maintain it well with all due diligence, for without life, all other assets have no real meaning to our lives.

Being faithful in the smallest things is the way to gain, maintain, and demonstrate the strength needed to accomplish something great.

Shortcuts usually grease the rails to disappointing outcomes.

We need to attend diligently to the state of our soul, and to deal fervently and effectively with God about it.

When we realize a constant enemy of the soul abides within us, what diligence and watchfulness we should have! How woeful is the sloth and negligence then of so many who live blind and asleep to this reality of sin. There is an exceeding efficacy nad power in the indwelling sin of believers, for it constantly inclines itself towards evil. We need to be awake, then, if our hearts would know the ways of God. Our enemy is not only upon us, as it was with Samson, but it is also in us.

No man," Wilberforce wrote, "has a right to be idle." "Where is it," he asked, "that in such a world as this, health, and leisure, and affluence may not find some ignorance to instruct, some wrong to redress, some want to supply, some misery to alleviate?

Be sure that you live not idly, but in some constant business of a lawful calling, so far as you have bodily strength. Idleness is a constant sin, and labour is a duty. Idleness is but the devil's home for temptation, and for unprofitable, distracting musings. Labour profiteth others and ourselves; both soul and body need it. - Richard Baxter

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field.

lest the habit of work should be broken, and a taste for idleness acquired

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.

He did his work at the University as he did his work on the farm—thoroughly, conscientiously, with neither pleasure nor distress.

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it again?