Diligence Quotes

If you see yourself as other people see you, it means you are lost, you don't know yourself and you have closed down a world class university of diligence!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

When God calls you to build 100 castles on earth and you built 98, take the 99th as if it's the begining of your work and work hard to finish the race with all excellence. Go the extra mile!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Never climb the tree with the reason of plucking a fruit, only to get there and pick a leaf. Let everything you get there to do be done and let it be done well!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

People need self-respect, that self respect must be earned – it cannot be self-respect if it's not earned – and the only way to earn anything is to achieve it in the face of the possibility of failing.

~ Charles Murray

...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

So many had burned opportunities in the name of postponement, believing that another opportunity will arise. They fail to seize the spur of the moment, without thinking that maybe, that could be their last chance to actualize their long nurtured dreams. Achieving your heart desires in this century requires your alertness, diligence, and overcoming the hindrances that procrastination brings.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Diligence and attention soon gave him the knack of it, and he strode down the street with his mouth full of harmony and his soul full of gratitude. He felt much as an astronomer feels who has discovered a new planet—no doubt, as far as strong, deep, unalloyed pleasure is concerned, the advantage was with the boy, not the astronomer.

~ Mark Twain

It's easy to judge only on the superficial. It takes a lot more time and work to truly understand.

~ Mickey Zucker Reichert

Our government, media houses, schools, must focus on creating a new culture in our society. A culture of work. A culture of labour. A culture of diligence. A culture of hard work. A culture of perseverance. A culture of persistence. A culture of DIGNITY OF LABOUR.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Youth is the most suitable age to enjoy the life completely or to work diligently for the life, what you decide makes your rest of the life ordinary or legendary respectively.

~ Amit Kalantri

Get it Right today, for today wil never come again

~ Seyi Ayoola

The narrow path of the righteous is an extremely difficult path to travel. The rough road to victory is a very challenging endeavor that pushes the limits of endurance. Enormous mountains of hardship, boisterous storms of adversity, and several other elements of confrontation are there in their various forms of operation to test our faith. So it’s very important for us to apply the word of our God to our lives, and believe it with unwavering faith. Then no form of adversity can keep us back from a successful advancement into a deeper progression where greater achievements are obtained.

~ Calvin W. Allison

Study God’s word to show thyself approved and be prepared for the tests that we are given. They make our faith stronger and our character more mature, so that our lives better glorify the Lord.

~ Calvin W. Allison

At that time my virtue slumbered; my evil, kept awake by ambition, was alert and swift to seize the occasion.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

…everything may be done in a right way or a wrong; the right way is to do it as well as we can, as in God’s sight; the wrong is to do it in a self-seeking spirit, which either leads us to neglect it to follow out some device of our own before and after the doing.

~ Elizabeth Gaskell

Let not miracle be your focus but be strong in diligence which is an eternal virtue.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Diligence and Application have their due Encouragement, even in the remotest Parts of the World, and that no Case can be so low, so despicable, or so empty of Prospect, but that an unwearied Industry will go a great way to deliver us from it, will in time raise the meanest Creature to appear again in the World, and give him a new Case for his Life.

~ Daniel Defoe

Diligence and hard work sensitize you to recognize opportunity.

~ David P. Ingerson

If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be, but would proceed at once with the feverish diligence of a bee, to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. … Just a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor.

~ Nikola Tesla

For example, the citizens will live out the value of diligence in their enterprises. They will live out the value of prudence in their finances. They will live out the value of industry in the economy. They will live out the value of love in their neighbourhood. They will live out the value of dignity of labour in the market place, etc. All these will go a long way into propelling both the economy and political life of a nation to the greatest height possible.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Diligence, hard work, perseverance, excellence are the values that will make us have quality churches that will make us bring kingdom of God to the earth.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The earth is not supposed to be developed and civilized by prayers alone, the earth is supposed to be civilized by hard work, labour and diligence.

~ Sunday Adelaja

He will unfailingly be pleased with our patience and take note of our diligence and perseverance.

~ Francis De Sales

Let’s downplay the teachings on miracles and teach the values of hard work and diligence.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Diligence, hard work, perseverance, excellence are the values that cause things to happen.

~ Sunday Adelaja

It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may be done, I know from experience. God has given us, in a measure, the power to make our own fate: and when our energies seem to demand a sustenance they cannot get--when our will strains after a path we may not follow--we need neither starve from inanition, not stand still in despair: we have but to seek another nourishment for the mind, as strong as the forbidden fruit it longed to taste--and perhaps purer; and to hew out for the adventurous foot a road as direct and broad as the one Fortune has blocked up against us, if rougher than it.

~ Charlotte Brontë

How I wished after all the hardships, you will immediately attain your reward. But it's not that easy. You need to wait for the right time to come in your life. Always bear in mind that diligence is nothing without perseverance.

~ Joe Mari Fadrigalan

A bowl of diligence and perseverance, a cup of faith and a pinch of inspiration mixed with a spoon of contentment are the ingredients of a delicious success. Cook yours well.

~ Joe Mari Fadrigalan

He became...the ideal of that virtue which delights in its own work...doing everything with simplicity and dignity, for he seemed to realize that his objective added nobility to everything he did.

~ Honoré De Balzac

The strength of human instinct seems to be quite overrated as it is so feeble it requires a lifetime of guidance, education, training and practical experience to develop. More critically, without conscious and diligent effort across one generation to pass its knowledge on to the next generation, all that was gained will be lost, forewarned by an increasing rarity of the reminiscence, “Every secret of life I know, I learned at my grandfather’s knee.

~ T.k. Naliaka

God is always faithful to His principles, and for this reason He blesses the diligent

~ Sunday Adelaja

Anytime I see a rainbow, what comes into my mind is how skillful and talented someone was to create an ark that didn't leak through a prolong period of flood. We must work our talents out and work them out skillfully and then our rainbow of excellence will show.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Talent is not enough, hard work makes the difference

~ Sunday Adelaja

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

It's not what you know but the kind of job you do that makes the difference.

~ Ben Carson

Stick to a task, 'til it sticks to you. Beginners are many, finishers are few. -Anonymous, as quoted in Small and Simple Things.

~ Marjorie Pay Hinckley

A diligent hawker today, can be a great tycoon tomorrow

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The gospel of the kingdom talks about diligence.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Preach the Gospel at all times. When necessary, use words.

~ Francis Of Assisi

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

~ Samuel Johnson