Quotes about Diligence

You must work and should not be lazy if you want to be happy.

Hard work and determination equals success. Nothing comes easy. Put your mind to something.

Up, then, with speed, and work; Fling ease and self away-- This is no time for thee to sleep-- Up, watch, and work, and pray!

A constant attention to the work which God entrusts us with is a mark of solid piety.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do a great deal if we choose our goals well and work diligently to attain them.

I will work when failures seek rest.

the Lord does not so much look at the work that is done, as at the faithfulness of our hearts in doing it.

Make every effort

The rest of this book is about hard work, but it is the best work you will ever do. If

Cash is filling up the holes he bored in the top of it. He is trimming out plugs for them, one at a time, the wood wet and hard to work. He could cut up a tin can and hide the holes and nobody wouldn't know the difference. Wouldn't mind, anyway. I have seen him spend a hour trimming out a wedge like it was glass he was working, when he could have reached around and picked up a dozen sticks and drove them into the joint and made it do.

The natural thing to do is to work—to recognize that prosperity and happiness can be obtained only through honest effort.

For the day's work is a great thing—a very great thing! It is at the very foundation of the world; it is the basis of our self-respect.