Proverbs 13:4

The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,

But the soul of the diligent is enriched.

Matthew 21:30

30 And the man came to the second and said the same thing; and he answered and said, ‘I will, sir’; but he did not go.

Luke 14:27-33

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27 Whoever does not ^acarry his own cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple. 28 For which one of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it? 29 Lest, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who observe it begin to ridicule him, 30 saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’ 31 Or what king, when he sets out to meet another king in battle, will not first sit down and ^aconsider whether he is strong enough with ten thousand men to encounter the one coming against him with twenty thousand? 32 Or else, while the other is still far away, he sends ¹a delegation and asks for terms of peace. 33 So then, none of you can be My disciple who ^adoes not give up all his own possessions.