Quotes About Diligence

I'll always have to make sure things happen eventually and don't slip from my hands, from under my nose. I'll always have to be on my toes.

For me, it's always been to be on your toes about everything no matter what you do - my mom and dad always stressed that to me.

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.

I cleaned many a toilet.

I cleaned toilets and shined shoes.

We are more likely to busy ourselves with finding things to do than in doing with our might the work that is in our hands already.

Many people turn away from Me when they are exhausted. They associate Me with duty and diligence, so they try to hide from My Presence when they need a break from work. How this saddens Me! As I spoke through My prophet Isaiah: In returning to Me and resting in Me you shall be saved; in quietness and trust shall be your strength.

You have to face serious people seriously. That's my policy. -Shohei to Yuichi

safeguards don't make you safe; they make you lazy.

Effective management of open issues is purely about diligence. Someone has to both investigate potential problems and take the time to write them down.

little things done well consistently can have big effects—has merit.

What good's slacking all the time if the ship comes apart beneath you while you sleep?

Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ. (Col. 3:23–24)

To spend too much time in studies is sloth.

My advice would be to write -never to stop writing, to keep it up all the time, to be painstaking about it, to write until you begin to write.

Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time.

When you're making an independent film what you don't have in time and money you have to make up with creativity and diligence.

War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverance, by time, and by practice.

The problem with the drone is it's like your lawn mower. You've got to mow the lawn all the time. The minute you stop mowing, the grass is going to grow back.

Three enemies that will weaken your ministry over time: Self-indulgence, bitterness, and carelessness. Strong people discipline their desires, restrain their reactions, and keep their commitments.

The greatest opportunity of our lives is to wake ourselves up and get going. There is so much to be done and so little time to do it. We should impress ourselves with the seriousness of slothfulness.

Carrying those double tanks around all the time got to be a little rough on me. I had to put that damn wetsuit on and take it off, sometimes three or four times a day.

Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory.

I spend a lot of time revising. I'm not somebody who can move slowly.