Quotes about Diligence

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.

Will reading the Book of Mormon now and then ensure faith in the Lord Jesus Christ? You wouldn't count on it if you read Nephi carefully. He said the Holy Ghost is "the gift of God unto all those who diligently seek him." Diligently surely means regularly. And it surely means pondering and praying. And the praying will surely include a fervent pleading to know the truth. Anything less would hardly be diligent. And anything less will not be enough for you and for me.

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.

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

I feel like the same person, but I feel as if I need to work twice as much now.

It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves work harder at the task than most people do in earning their daily bread.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well.

There is no substitute for hard work when it comes to achieving success.

The secret to missionary work is work. Work, work, work!

Laziness means more work in the long run.