Quotes about diligence
Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes
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!
Moffat Machingura - Now!
Life is like a restaurant you can have anything you want as long as you are willing to pay the price.
Antonin Sertillanges - Methods
The reward of a work is to have produced it the reward of effort is to have grown by it.
Sunday Adelaja -
When you focus on diligence and hard work miracle will come to you
Sunday Adelaja -
Let not miracle be your focus but be strong in diligence which is an eternal virtue.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -
Most people who lose their lives because life might be down for them only refuse to know what a tuber of yam that is put into the soil goes through before it comes up as a fresh green creeping plant to bear yet another bigger tuber
Nikola Tesla -
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.
David P. Ingerson -
Diligence and hard work sensitize you to recognize opportunity.
Daniel Defoe - Moll Flanders
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.
Elizabeth Gaskell - Ruth
…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.
Robert Louis Stevenson -
At that time my virtue slumbered; my evil, kept awake by ambition, was alert and swift to seize the occasion.
Francis de Sales -
He will unfailingly be pleased with our patience and take note of our diligence and perseverance.
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 -
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 -
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.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -
A diligent hawker today, can be a great tycoon tomorrow
Ben Carson -
It's not what you know but the kind of job you do that makes the difference.
Marjorie Pay Hinckley - Small and Simple Things
Stick to a task, 'til it sticks to you. Beginners are many, finishers are few." -Anonymous, as quoted in Small and Simple Things.
Israelmore Ayivor -
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.
Sunday Adelaja -
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
William Penn -
Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
Abigail Adams -
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
Sunday Adelaja -
The gospel of the kingdom talks about diligence.
Francis of Assisi -
Preach the Gospel at all times. When necessary, use words.
Samuel Johnson -
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -
You are where your energy is and you get something from where your energy goes!
Mickey Zucker Reichert - Robot: To Protect Book 1
It's easy to judge only on the superficial. It takes a lot more time and work to truly understand.
Sunday Adelaja -
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.
Calvin W. Allison - Standing at the Top of the Hill
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
Calvin W. Allison - Standing at the Top of the Hill
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.
Mark Twain - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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.
Seyi Ayoola -
Get it Right today, for today wil never come again
Amit Kalantri -
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.
Sunday Adelaja -
God always gives riches to diligent people who persistently aim for the goal and who continue to be diligent
Sunday Adelaja -
God is always faithful to His principles, and for this reason He blesses the diligent
Sunday Adelaja -
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.
Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre
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 perh
Joe Mari Fadrigalan -
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.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -
There exist no new mistakes anywhere. The same mistakes people committed are the same mistakes people are committing and the same mistakes shall people commit
T.K. Naliaka -
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.
Honoré de Balzac - The Atheist’s Mass
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.
Michael Bassey Johnson - The Infinity Sign
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.
Sunday Adelaja -
Only diligence will give you wealth
Israelmore Ayivor - Leaders' Watchwords
The sweeper of the street is a leader in his own respect provided he does his job well with all love, diligence and attention than anyone would do when given the same broom sticks.
Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365
Any idea that takes away sweet sleeps from you will eventually bring to you sweet life. Be diligent and willing to stay awake until your good is better and your better becomes excellent!
Israelmore Ayivor - Shaping the dream
You don’t have a silver spoon in your mouth. You have a golden spoon in your palms. Use it and feed yourself
Israelmore Ayivor - Shaping the dream
Dare to be competent. Competency is what makes everyone remain at peace when things are being handled by you. Watch yourself if everyone feels uncomfortable just because it’s you doing it.
Israelmore Ayivor - Shaping the dream
Watch out for what people commend you for and do it diligently. Don’t stop if compliments no longer come.
Charles Murray - 1960-2010
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.
Sunday Adelaja -
Diligence is God’s principle
Thomas Sydenham -
...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.
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 - The Great Hand Book of 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!
Sunday Adelaja -
Be persistent and diligent in the way you spend your time daily
Sunday Adelaja -
We have to be diligent in serving God and in fulfilling the task set before us by Him
Sunday Adelaja -
It is important to be diligent because riches comes only into the hands of the diligent
Sunday Adelaja -
Diligence includes long – suffering
Sunday Adelaja -
God will use anybody that will show diligence in his work
William Wordsworth - Character of the Happy Warrior
...The happy Warrior... is he... who, with a natural instinct to discern what knowledge can perform, is diligent to learn; abides by this resolve, and stops not there, but makes his moral being his prime care.
Sunday Adelaja -
Diligence makes big dreams come to past
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -
The real destination lies in step taking!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -
A car with a small hole in its fuel tank unattended to shall see its fuel draining little by little and it shall only be left in the middle of a long journey! So is life! Mind the small things!
Martin Luther -
There are two days in my calendar: This day and that Day.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
For every great success, diligence is desirable from the beginning to the very end.
Sunday Adelaja -
U will have success where you diligently labor
Sunday Adelaja -
Diligence always makes a person rich
Sunday Adelaja -
It is possible to get rich only by being diligent
Sunday Adelaja -
You will be successful if you are focused on your work
Sunday Adelaja -
If you are faithful and diligent in your work, God will place you before kings
Sunday Adelaja -
If you discover the secret of diligence then you will not be an ordinary person
Sunday Adelaja -
It is impossible to do anything of significance in this world if you are not ready to enjoy success
Sunday Adelaja -
Being focused means been diligence and diligence always makes a person rich
Sunday Adelaja -
A man will have success in the place where he diligently works
Kevin Keenoo -
Diligence without intelligence is tragedy, not success.
Chuck Close -
Amateurs look for inspiration the rest of us just get up and go to work.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra -
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
T.K. Naliaka -
Raising awareness versus raising alarmthe public can't be better informed if the information isn't better.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
With discipline, dedication and diligence, you will achieve the goal.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -
Before you attack the porcupine, think of its quills!
Moffat Machingura -
I "love" reading.It makes me feel like I am swallowing up Christ, Homer, Confucius, Newton, Franklin, Socrates, Caesar, and the whole world into one gigantic invincible Sir Moffat. Mine is creative reading. I read building empires in mind. I pray I won't read and read and forget to marry.
Seneca - Natural Questions
The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject... And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages. There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them... Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us wil
Israelmore Ayivor - Shaping the dream
Fame is not the reason why brands are created and erected. Be diligent, focused and chain unceasing prayers to God who will continue giving you cheers.
Sunday Adelaja -
Believe be and strong enough in virtues like character, faithfulness, hard work, dignity of labor, diligence, excellence, perseverance, truth, responsibility, delayed gratification, contentment, trust, integrity and stop looking for miracles.
Glen Cook -
Write. Don't talk about writing. Don't tell me about your wonderful story ideas. Don't give me a bunch of 'somedays'. Plant your ass and scribble, type, keyboard. If you have any talent at all it will leak out despite your failure to pay attention in Eng
Moffat Machingura - Life Capsules
It is a belief of the mediocre that extreme effort kills.
Tarphon -
The day is short, the labor vast, the toilers idle, the reward great, and the Master urgent.
Chinonye J. Chidolue -
Quit beating yourself up, beat your goals up instead.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
Lead diligently.
John Locke - Second Treatise of Government
...but since He gave it them for their benefit and the greatest conveniences of life they were capable to draw form it, it cannot be supposed He meant it should always remain common and uncultivated. He gave it to the use of the industrious and rational (and labour was to be his title to it)...
Rudyard Kipling - Complete Verse
Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful!' and sitting in the shade.
Magnus Nwagu Amudi -
It is not who will eat beans, but who will pick it that is scarce.
Sunday Adelaja -
To be diligent means to be serious and devoted to the work of God
Sunday Adelaja -
God always estimates how diligent a person is to his work.
Sunday Adelaja -
You will eat from where you work with all your strength
Sunday Adelaja -
For the present time, just do your job well
Israelmore Ayivor - Become a Better You
To become a better you, be diligent and never let the charms of procrastination and excuses seduce you to fall for mediocrity.