Quotes about Diligence

In my early teens, I was a janitor. In high school, I got up early to deliver to accounts that required early service.

Forgiveness is essential if we are to guard our hearts with all diligence.

Pray patiently.Pray purposefully.Pray painstakingly.Pray perfectly.

Indifference is a form of sloth. For one can work hard, as I've always done, and yet wallow in sloth; be industrious about one's job, but scandalously lazy about all that isn't the job. Because, of course, the job is fun. Whereas the non-job---personal relations, in my case---is disagreeable and laborious.

People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

We must always be on guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another.

First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day...

We magnify our priesthood and enlarge our calling when we serve with diligence and enthusiasm in those responsibilities to which we are called by proper authority.

Building our homes as fortresses of righteousness for protection from the world takes constant labor and diligence.

Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort.