Quotes about Diligence

Fatherhood is not a matter of station or wealth. It is a matter of desire, diligence and determination to see one's family exalted in the celestial kingdom. If that prize is lost, nothing else really matters.

I'm always working. My cousins call me the longshoreman of actors.

When I'm concentrating, I can be fixed in place for hours. In fact, there was a joke in my office that everybody would come and chat outside my door because they knew - no matter how loud they talked - if I was concentrating, it would not disturb me at all.

If you don't pay the price for success, you'll pay the price for failure.

Even where there is talent, culture, knowledge, if there is not earnestness, it does not go to the root of things.

Diligent follow-up and follow-through will set you apart from the crowd and communicate excellence.

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least.

Whatever you do, do it well.

You must head down your path to riches with a sense of urgency or else you'll fall prey to distractions, laziness, limiting beliefs, procrastination, binge watching TV shows. Work with diligent focus and grateful expectation, do all you can every day to the best of your ability, remember that the sooner you achieve your financial goals, the longer you get to spend on Earth basking in your riches.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four hours sharpening the axe.

We are to learn our duty from the Lord, and then we are to act in all diligence, never being lazy or slothful. The pattern is simple but not easy to follow. We are so easily distracted.