Top 100 Quotes About Diligence
#1. That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.
William Shakespeare
#2. The more opportunities there are in a Society for some persons to live upon the toil of others, and the less those others may enjoy the fruits of their work themselves, the more is diligence killed, the former become insolent, the latter despairing, and both negligent.
Anders Chydenius
#3. There are two days in my calendar: This day and that Day.
Martin Luther
#4. Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful.
Mark Twain
#5. Do not spend the day in gathering flowers by the way side, lest night come upon you before you arrive at your journey's end, and then you will not reach it.
Isaac Watts
#7. Diligence, above all, is the mother of good luck.
Samuel Smiles
#8. Patience and submission are very carefully to be distinguished from cowardice and indolence. We are not to repine, but we may lawfully struggle; for the calamities of life, like the necessities of Nature, are calls to labor and diligence.
Samuel Johnson
#9. It is diligence that is supposed to be your greatest possession
Sunday Adelaja
#10. Life is a great asset we must all endeavor to acquire, keep and daily maintain it well with all due diligence, for without life, all other assets have no real meaning to our lives.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#11. Many leave the labours of half their life to their executors and to chance, because they will not send them abroad unfinished, and are unable to finish them, having prescribed to themselves such a degree of exactness as human diligence can scarcely ontain.
Samuel Johnson
#12. Keep your heart with all diligence and God will take care of the universe.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#13. [I]f thou loiter when thou shouldst labour, thou wilt lose the crown. O fall to work then speedily and seriously, and bless God that thou hast yet time to do it; and though that which is past cannot be recalled, yet redeem the time now by doubling thy diligence (260).
Richard Baxter
#14. Work is doing it. Discipline is doing it every day. Diligence is doing it well every day.
Dave Ramsey
#15. Peg and I are in the trenches of social media, not in a "war room" back at headquarters. We acquired our knowledge though experimentation and diligence, not pontification, sophistry, and conference attendance.
Guy Kawasaki
#16. Therefore we examine with considerable diligence the consensus of the true, learned, and purer antiquity, and we love and praise the testimonies of the fathers which agree with the Scripture.
Martin Chemnitz
#17. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.
Samuel Johnson
#18. You will be successful if you are focused on your work
Sunday Adelaja
#19. Be persistent and diligent in the way you spend your time daily
Sunday Adelaja
#20. Be a lamp unto yourself. Work out your liberation with diligence.
Gautama Buddha
#21. Life is like a restaurant; you can have anything you want as long as you are willing to pay the price.
Moffat Machingura
#22. It is much easier and cheaper to follow a vegan diet than it is to perform due diligence on a diet that includes meat, milk, or eggs.
Erik Marcus
#23. The only thing that could cleanse our society is when our messages is focused on diligence, hard work and been faithful in little
Sunday Adelaja
#24. Nonfiction means that our stories are as true and accurate as possible. Readers expect - demand - diligence.
Lee Gutkind
#25. The effort, diligence, and care required in practicing must be quickly suspended when pressure coming from anxiety or a desire for fast results causes them to degenerate.
Paul Caponigro
#28. I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
Charles Dickens
#29. It's basic due diligence to make sure that whenever a foreign entity acquires a controlling interest in a U.S. company that national security isn't threatened.
Dave Reichert
#30. Whatever your dreams are in life ...
always believe in your heart that you can achieve them. With strong faith & great diligence ... you shall!
Timothy Pina
#32. We have to be diligent in serving God and in fulfilling the task set before us by Him
Sunday Adelaja
#33. It is a basic tenet throughout the Scriptures that God rewards diligence, faithfulness, endurance, and steadfastness.
Rick Joyner
#34. I seem to be allergic to diligence
Junot Diaz
#35. What we hope ever to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence.
Samuel Johnson
#36. The Service without Hope
Is tenderest, I think
...
There is no Diligence like that
That knows not an Until
Emily Dickinson
#37. Focus means being diligent. Diligence always leads to wealth.
Sunday Adelaja
#39. Diligence deserves to be rewarded." "In what proportion? And in what currency? These are empty words.
Eleanor Catton
#40. I believe verbal felicity is the fruit of ardor, of diligence, and of refusing to be false.
Marianne Moore
#41. Buying a home today is a complex process, but that in no way excuses home buyers from their obligation for due diligence.
Henry Paulson
#42. My dreams were therefore undisturbed by reality; and I entered with the greatest diligence into the search of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life. But the latter obtained my undivided attention: wealth was
Mary Shelley
#44. Rather than standing defiant screaming to the winds to bring the storm,
be focused, grateful for the time to prepare and learn to harness it.
Tom Althouse
#45. Building our homes as fortresses of righteousness for protection from the world takes constant labor and diligence.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#46. At that time my virtue slumbered; my evil, kept awake by ambition, was alert and swift to seize the occasion.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#47. All composite things pass away. Strive for your own liberation with diligence.
Gautama Buddha
#48. A step towards complacency is a step towards mediocrity;
a step towards diligence is a step towards brilliance.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#50. Ben Says: We can only help better humanity if we better ourselves first. Education, diligence, passion, charity~helping all we can, when we can...will go a long way towards making our world a better place.
Timothy Pina
Bullying Ben
Timothy Pina
#51. Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.
Tony Kushner
#53. Be a lamp unto yourselves! Work out your liberation with diligence! Fill your mind with compassion!
Gautama Buddha
#54. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
Charles Kingsley
#55. Diligence in employments of less consequence is the most successful introduction to greater enterprises.
Samuel Johnson
#58. All compounded things are subject to decay. Strive with diligence!
Gautama Buddha
#60. The number of people who could deliver a kick to the balls with Aomame's mastery must have been few indeed. She had studied kick patterns with great diligence and never missed her daily practice.
Haruki Murakami
#61. He who finds he has wasted a shilling may by diligence hope to fetch it up again; but no repentance or industry can ever bring back one wasted hour.
Hannah More
#62. Human beings are capable of virtually limitless degradation; they are also capable of virtually limitless improvement and achievement. Success depends on goals and on diligence in pursuing them.
Mas Oyama
#63. I'm a pretty disciplined investor and pretty disciplined buyer. I do my due diligence. I do my homework. I don't waste money.
Bruce Rauner
#64. To be mediocre, when only application and diligence would have netted superiority, is an error akin to sin.
Spencer W. Kimball
#65. Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.
Bill Hybels
#66. When superior people hear of the Way, they carry it out with diligence. When middling people hear of the Way, it sometimes seems to be there, sometimes not. When lesser people hear of the Way, they ridicule it greatly. If they didn't laugh at it, it wouldn't be the Way.
Laozi
#67. Bestow upon me, O Lord my God, understanding to know thee, diligence to seek thee, wisdom to find thee, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace thee.
Thomas Aquinas
#68. Do not believe anything because it is said by an authority, or if it is said to come from angels, or from Gods, or from an inspired source. Believe it only if you have explored it in your own heart and mind and body and found it to be true. Work out your own path, through diligence.
Gautama Buddha
#69. Renounce poor work.
Shun trivial work.
Entertain respectable work.
Welcome superior work.
Honor transcendent work.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#70. Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
Abigail Adams
#72. Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.
Buddha
#73. A man will have success in the place where he diligently works
Sunday Adelaja
#74. It is necessary for a Senator to be thoroughly acquainted with the constitution; and this is a knowledge of the most extensive nature; a matter of science, of diligence, of reflection, without which no Senator can possibly be fit for his office.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#75. When you're making an independent film what you don't have in time and money you have to make up with creativity and diligence.
Matthew Lillard
#76. The Seven Factors of Awakening are mindfulness, investigation of phenomena, diligence, joy, ease, concentration, and letting go.
Nhat Hanh
#77. I am still doing my due diligence. A vote on a Supreme Court nominee is a lifetime appointment and when the court decides, it is the law of the land.
Bob Menendez
#78. He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Menander
#79. He wasn't an especially charismatic or commanding individual, but what he lacked in personality he emphatically made up for in diligence.
Dan Jones
#80. In order to form a habit of conversing with GOD continually, and referring all we do to Him, we must at first apply to Him with some diligence: but that after a little care we should find His love inwardly excite us to it without any difficulty.
Brother Lawrence
#81. War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverance, by time, and by practice.
Alexander Hamilton
#82. He that loveth God will do diligence to please God by his works, and abandon himself, with all his might, well for to do.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#86. Diligence, word-lust, empathy equal growing objectivity and then what? Story. Story. Dammit, story!
Stephen King
#87. If you are faithful and diligent in your work, God will place you before kings
Sunday Adelaja
#88. Attend with Diligence and strict Integrity to the Interest of your Correspondents and enter into no Engagements which you have not the almost certain Means of performing.
George Mason
#89. I seem to be allergic to diligence, and Lola said, Ha. What you're allergic to is trying.
Junot Diaz
#90. Do not grow overconfident following a few victories. Should you not rely upon the Holy Spirit you will soon be thrown once more into a distressing experience. With holy diligence you must cultivate an attitude of dependency.
Watchman Nee
#91. Real ability is the child of God-given talent and rock solid diligence. Nobody maintains ability without hard work. Nobody.
Cung Le
#93. Every achievement worth remembering is stained with the blood of diligence and scarred by the wounds of disappointment
Charles Swindoll
#94. Amateurs look for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work.
Chuck Close
#95. camp. And we continue to admire the tenacity, diligence and skill with which Wendy has tracked and described the
Wendy Holden
#96. Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.
Albrecht Durer
#98. The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies - their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that force is legitimate only to the degree that it serves defensible poltical goals. Thus implies a constant exercise of due diligence ...
Michael Ignatieff
#99. There is probably no greater idler than myself. And I would consider myself a lazy-bones if I did not write so many volumes, and if I did not admire my diligence once I begin writing.
Henryk Sienkiewicz
#100. All writers start out writing badly, but with diligence and determination, we all get better. It's then that writing becomes truly fun and always engaging. When you no longer have to worry about how you write, you can start thinking about what to write.
Theo Fenraven
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