A Quote by Abraham Lincoln

The leading rule for a man of every calling is diligence; never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln
American - President
February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.

Abraham Lincoln

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

Abraham Lincoln

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day. Never let your correspondence fall behind. Whatever piece of business you have in hand, before stopping, do all the labor pertaining to it which can then be done.

Abraham Lincoln

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today -- for tomorrow's gonna be bad enough as it is.

George Gobel

'Never put off tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop into today's and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.

J. A. Spender

Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow. Nothing endures but change.

Heraclitus

Never put off your massage until tomorrow if you can get it today.

Thomas Jefferson

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

John C. Maxwell

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. Follow-up is the answer to a bureaucrat's prayers.

Susan Dunlap

Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

Benjamin Franklin

Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered by tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do to-day.

Benjamin Franklin

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds.

Robert A. Heinlein

You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come.

Gloria Estefan

The fruit we wish to pick tomorrow lies hidden in the seed of today. The goals we are to read and the problems we are to solve tomorrow depend upon today's diligence, hope and faith, today's conviction of the almightiness of good.