Top 100 Quotes About Diligent
#1. Our future tomorrow ... depends on our diligent work today.
Timothy Pina
#2. Be prudent, diligent, temperate and discreet. Remember that every human being has a claim upon your kind offices.
Albert Pike
#3. Harm began to come to Hornblower from that day forth, despite his obedience to orders and diligent study of his duties, and it stemmed from the arrival in the midshipmen's berth of John Simpson as senior warrant officer.
C.S. Forester
#4. Pursuing prayer is prayer on a mission. It is diligent, fervent, constant, persevering, determined, and convinced.
David Bryant
#5. What we call "mastery" can be defined as that mysterious process through which what is at first difficult or even impossible becomes easy and pleasurable through diligent, patient, long-term practice.
George Leonard
#6. A wise person will be slow to show their anger ...
But very quick and diligent to show love and kindness to all.
Timothy Pina
#7. Some parents place undue priority on temporal and material possessions. Some are far less diligent in their efforts to immerse their children in the gospel of Jesus Christ. Remember that having religious observance in the home is as important as providing food, clothing and shelter.
Quentin L. Cook
#8. Those who become enamoured of the art, without having previously applied to the diligent study of the scientific part of it, may be compared to mariners who put to the sea in a ship without rudder or compass and therefore cannot be certain of arriving at the wished for port.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#9. We can look at Joseph's example and realize through good times and bad, we must stay the course, being diligent and enthusiastic about what God brings. If He brings you to it, we must remember, He will bring you through it as well.
Joyce Meyer
#10. When he [the slothful person] is pressed to be diligent, either in his worldly affairs or in the business of religion, this is his excuse (and a sorry excuse it is as bad as none).
Matthew Henry
#11. When the Superior Man eats he does not try to stuff himself; at rest he does not seek perfect comfort; he is diligent in his work and careful in speech. He avails himself to people of the Tao and thereby corrects himself. This is the kind of person of whom you can say, 'he loves learning.'
Confucius
#12. Come, live with the doors of the senses guarded, diligent and mindful, vigilant and mindful, with the ways of the mind well watched, possessed of a mind that is awake and observing.
Gautama Buddha
#13. Be persistent and diligent in the way you spend your time daily
Sunday Adelaja
#14. Great art is created only through diligent and painstaking effort to perfect and polish oneself.
Daisaku Ikeda
#15. If we have been diligent to hide the Word of God in our hearts, and if we continue to labor over that Word, we can be assured that in the time of harvest we will reap a bountiful reward if we faint not. (See Galatians 6:9.)
T.D. Jakes
#16. I find myself more and more behind these days. You have to be really diligent. I don't have kids, which helps. I'm always working on something, whether a book, or a law review article that no one will ever read, or teaching. It pretty much means I work a lot, but it's all stuff I love.
Alafair Burke
#17. I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman.
Laurence Olivier
#18. The gentleman prefers to be slow in word but diligent in action.
Confucius
#19. All, the intelligent and stupid, diligent and idle, have been swept along on a current of increased output that, in the usual case, owed nothing whatever to their efforts.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#20. I've learned that I can pretty much do anything I've wanted to as long as I was methodical and diligent about it. It may not sound very exciting really, but it works.
Jamie Hyneman
#21. Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
Benjamin Franklin
#23. We have to be diligent in serving God and in fulfilling the task set before us by Him
Sunday Adelaja
#24. He, then, that would mortify any disquieting lust: let him take care to be equally diligent in all parts of obedience, and know that every lust, every omission of duty, is burdensome to God, though only one be burdensome to him.
John Owen
#25. Focus means being diligent. Diligence always leads to wealth.
Sunday Adelaja
#26. I cannot say that I was a particularly diligent student, especially during the lower grades.
Koichi Tanaka
#29. I have always felt that Judit was a relatively slow starter, though she is extremely motivated, diligent, hard-working, and disciplined towards her goals in chess and in life.
Susan Polgar
#30. The thing about discipline is that people misunderstand the word discipline. People think discipline in the dog world is punishment. Discipline is how you achieve what you want to achieve in life. You have to be very focused, very disciplined, very consistent, very diligent. All of those things.
Cesar Millan
#31. Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.
Plutarch
#32. I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest
sometimes not even the most diligent. But they are learning machines; they go to bed every night a little wiser than when they got up. And, boy, does that habit help, particularly when you have a long run ahead of you.
Charlie Munger
#33. Until the Spirit be poured upon us from on high," the wilderness, notwithstanding the most diligent cultivation, must remain a wilderness still.
Charles Bridges
#35. I think there's a danger, for me at least, in retreating and going inward and depression. I have to stay diligent against that tendency.
Conor Oberst
#37. There are things in your life you can control - and there are variables you can't. The more diligent you are at controlling what you can, the more influence you'll have over your destiny. You just have to figure out which are which.
Carleton Young
#38. When you're a teenager - How do you determine what being a Christian looks like, if you're not willing to be as transparent as the realty TV world we live in? If we are to make it easy for others to find God, we must be more diligent about sharing our stories, openly and honestly.
Sarah Jakes
#39. Remember that any functioning communication, and communication is a two-street; it requires my listening and my speaking. Our relationship with the Lord is no different. It requires my listening to God through a study of His word, and my speaking to God through diligent prayer.
Teresa Hampton
#40. Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.
Albert J. Nock
#41. He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebearers, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.
James Reston Jr.
#42. If you love something and if you're committed and diligent - the things happen!
Lauryn Hill
#43. perfect Christian characters, seeking by diligent study and earnest prayer to gain the training essential for acceptable service in the cause of God.
Ellen G. White
#44. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
Denis Diderot
#46. Ane bow that is ay bent Worthis ay unsmart and dullis on the string; Sa dois the mynd that is ay diligent In ernistfull thochtis and in studying.
Robert Henryson
#47. Endeavour-with most diligent labour, O aspiring artist!-to master content. The form will rise to meet you.
Multatuli
#48. Success is transient. Failure makes us diligent. But yearning to succeed is constant.
Debasish Mridha
#49. Be strong. Be diligent. Be conscientious. There is never anything to be gained by taking the easy road.
Julia Quinn
#50. O that our prelates would be as diligent to sow the corn of good doctrine, as Satan is to sow cockle and darnel!
Hugh Latimer
#51. I am pretty diligent with my fitness routine. I am not like a crazy workout-holic, but I stay active.
Bailey Chase
#52. I am very, very diligent and extremely hard-working.
Lana Parrilla
#53. So we need to not simply aim to do good in all areas of life, but be diligent in seeking to learn what actually will do good. We need to be smart about doing good. Good intentions are not enough. We need to do good that actually helps.
Matt Perman
#54. In the same way, people who sleep when they should be working are testing God. Because God promised to take care of them, they assume that God will find a way. But in Proverbs, God told them to work: "Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth" (Proverbs 10:4).
Martin Luther
#55. Without a sincere and diligent effort in every area of obedience, there will be no sucessful mortification of any one besetting sin.
John Owen
#56. In order to have success we have to make an effort and this demands persistent, diligent hard work
Sunday Adelaja
#57. There is always a sneer in Las Vegas. The mountains around it sneer. The desert sneers. And arrogant in the middle of its wide valley, dominating those diligent sprawling suburbs, the downtown city sneers like anything.
Jan Morris
#59. We can begin to become more diligent and concerned at home by telling the people we love that we love them. Such expressions do not need to be flowery or lengthy. We simply should sincerely and frequently express love.
David A. Bednar
#60. If you are faithful and diligent in your work, God will place you before kings
Sunday Adelaja
#61. Elizabeth Keckley was a woman of remarkable strength, courage, perseverance, and dignity. She was exceptionally talented, but also very diligent and ambitious, and together those qualities enabled her to deliver herself from slavery and become a successful businesswoman.
Jennifer Chiaverini
#62. A large salary does not make a person rich, it is a diligent hand that does.
Sunday Adelaja
#63. A writer's style should be direct and personal, his imagery rich and earthy, and his words simple and vigorous. The greatest writers have the gift of brilliant brevity, are hard workers, diligent scholars and competent stylists.
Ernest Hemingway,
#64. Even in our most diligent efforts to live the gospel, all of us will make mistakes, and all of us will sin. What a comforting assurance it is to know that through our Savior's redeeming sacrifice, we can be forgiven and made clean again.
Ann M. Dibb
#65. So I say to you read! Read! Something will stick in the mind, be diligent and good will come of it.
Sarah Vowell
#68. I'm really diligent; I have a really militant side of my personality that comes out in areas of work. I'm very motivated, you know?
Nikki Reed
#69. All the other stuff without love? Not worth a whole lot. Love starts with ourselves and needs to be approached like anything else we want to master-with a lot of diligent studying and practicing!
Brian Johnson
#70. Your ability is a gift, but it isn't enough to reach your goal. You must be persistent and diligent on your way, and whatever happens, you must always get back up on your feet.
B.B. Vayk
#71. You're a wicked man." "Thank you. It's taken years of diligent practice.
Iain Banks
#72. It is important to be diligent because riches comes only into the hands of the diligent
Sunday Adelaja
#73. True spirit of Judo is nothing but the gentle and diligent free spirit. Judo rests on flexible action of mind and body. The word flexible however never means weakness but something more like adaptability and openmindedness. Gentleness always overcomes strength.
Kyuzo Mifune
#74. The Spirit of the Lord says that God is placing a crown of manifestation on the heads of His faithful, diligent, chosen saints - a crown of great favor and authority with God and men - a new and greater installment of the fruits and blessings of the Spirit. Another measure, and another, and another.
Todd Bentley
#75. The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#76. Perfectionists are patient,
the diligent are persevering,
and the relentless are successful.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#77. God always gives riches to diligent people who persistently aim for the goal and who continue to be diligent
Sunday Adelaja
#78. God always estimates how diligent a person is to his work.
Sunday Adelaja
#79. To be rich be diligent; move on
Like heav'ns great movers that enrich the earth;
Whose moment's sloth would show the world undone;
And make the spring straight bury all her birth.
Rich are the diligent who can command
Time
nature's stock.
William Davenant
#80. Thanks to the Betamax and Jason's diligent collection of tapes, she'd even been able to rerun the shows she'd missed while in Haiti. It was her job, she reasoned. And now she'd blown it!
Barbara Delinsky
#81. Treasure up these words in thy heart. Be faithful and diligent in keeping the commandments of God and I will encircle thee in the arms of my love.
Anonymous
#82. Being in Christ, it is safe to forget the past; it is possible to be sure of the future; it is possible to be diligent in the present.
Alexander MacLaren
#83. Stop pretending there's anything wrong with businesspeople hiring diligent laborers who will work for less. Let employers sponsor any worker and argue for why that worker should be given citizenship. Such a vetting mechanism would naturally promote the best and hardest-working.
Jose Ferreira
#84. I used to be that crazy person that was strict about what I did and didn't eat. I was so diligent with exercise. And as soon as I stopped thinking about it, I lost weight. I wasn't stressing about it. The balance and relaxing is what's really helped me.
Phoebe Tonkin
#85. Prayer doesn't just change things - it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.
Joyce Meyer
#86. The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.
William Godwin
#87. To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
Buddha
#88. Integrity makes my job easier. It's deception and dishonesty that requires so much diligent effort.
Bobby Bowden
#89. Deepika asked questions like a diligent student. She talks little and saves all she has for the shot.
Sanjay Leela Bhansali
#90. Among sportsmen are the noble, the diligent and the caring, as there are the callous, the cheats and the criminals.
Harsha Bhogle
#91. If God has called you to something, He will equip you to be what He has called you to be. If He has called you to be a responsible, faithful, diligent leader, as a man, He will equip you to do that.
LeCrae
#92. We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what they help distribute to the public; by which means a falsehood once received from a famed writer becomes traditional to posterity.
John Dryden
#93. I am a firm believer that you work as hard as you can, you're diligent, and God's gonna do with it what He wants to do with it. Whether it's big or little, it's still going to do what it needs to do and get into the hands it needs to get into.
John Reuben Zappin
#94. To this end it furnishes them an abundance of Catholic priests to teach them to be docile and obedient, and to be diligent in acquiring ignorance about things here below, and knowledge about the kingdom of heaven,
Mark Twain
#95. We must continue to be diligent in protecting Americans' civil liberties while preserving critical law enforcement tools we need to keep America safe.
Debbie Stabenow
#96. The pedant and the priest have always been the most expert of logicians
and the most diligent disseminators of nonsense and worse.
H.L. Mencken
#97. Keep hoping. Be patient and diligent. Never give up. Hold on to your faith. God helps us when we show Him that we are willing to help ourselves.
Kcat Yarza
#98. From the dawn of agriculture until this very day, billions of humans armed with branches, swatters, shoes and poison sprays have waged relentless war against the diligent ants, furtive roaches, adventurous spiders and misguided beetles that constantly infiltrate the human domicile. For
Yuval Noah Harari
#99. If a Christian is not willing to rise early and work late, to expend greater effort in diligent study and faithful work, that person will not change a generation. Fatigue is the price of leadership. Mediocrity is the result of never getting tired.
J. Oswald Sanders
#100. ...that the doctor being himself a mortal man, should be diligent and tender in relieving his suffering patients, inasmuch as he himself must one day be a like sufferer.
Thomas Sydenham
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