Quotes About Diligence

Rise with the lark, and with the lark to bed.

The lazy are always wanting to do something.

Father giving advice to son: Never do anything once around the house that you don't want to do for the rest of your life.

I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.

And let us not be weary in well doing; for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

During a very busy life I have often been asked, "How did you manage to it all?" The answer is very simple: it is because I did everything promptly.

If you want to kill time, try working it to death.

Do each daily task the best we can; act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us.

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates, one can do it when one will, and, therefore, one seldom does it at all; whereas those who have a great deal of business must buckle to it; and then they always find time enough to do it.

Work as if everything depended upon work and pray as if everything depended upon prayer.

I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me.

Luck ... taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it, luck goes away.

I compensate for big risks by always doing my homework and being well-prepared. I can take on larger risks by reducing the overall risk.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.

The way to be safe is never to be secure.

He who prays and labours lifts his heart to God with his hands.

The world belongs to the energetic.

It's in the preparation-in those dreary pedestrian virtues they taught you in seventh grade and you didn't believe. It's making the extra call and caring a lot.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.

Just do your best today and tomorrow will come ... tomorrow's going to be a busy day, a happy day.

She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.

The work praises the man.