72 Quotes About Diligence

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 will have been effaced. Seneca

...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. William Wordsworth

Leaders get to tall heights by taking short steps. Being faithful, diligent and consistent with little steps is the secret to mounting greater heights. Israelmore Ayivor

My dear Gorgas, Instead of being simply satisfied to make friends and draw your pay, it is worth doing your duty, to the best of your ability, for duty’s sake; and in doing this, while the indolent sleep, you may accomplish something that will be of real value to humanity. Your good friend, ReedDr. Walter Reed encouraging Dr. William Gorgas who went on to make history eradicating Yellow Fever in Havana, 1902 and Panama, 1906, liberating the entire North American continent from centuries of Yellow Fever epidemics. . William Crawford Gorgas

I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove to be a way of usefulness and good service leading to no other. All generous spirits are ambitious, I suppose, but the ambition that calmly trusts itself to such a road, instead of spasmodically trying to fly over it, is of the kind I care for. Charles Dickens

To be diligent means to be serious and devoted to the work of God Sunday Adelaja

To become a better you, be diligent and never let the charms of procrastination and excuses seduce you to fall for mediocrity. Israelmore Ayivor

With discipline, dedication and diligence, you will achieve the goal. Lailah Gifty Akita

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. Moffat Machingura

Before you attack the porcupine, think of its quills! Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Use your passion and expertise to provide long term value and innovative solutions for your clients Benjamin Kofi Quansah

The entire universe has been harmoniously created and everything in it work in harmony. The sun has its rising and settling time. Seasonal changes have their own time for appearing and departing. Fruit bearing trees have their own time and timing. The child crawls and then walks. We take a step to make a journey. A simple deviation then from the normal is a simple deviation to the abnormal. Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

You don't need to wish harder, you need to work harder. Amit Kalantri

Diligence, hard work, perseverance, excellence are the values that will make us have developed society. Sunday Adelaja

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 Glen Cook

Quit beating yourself up, beat your goals up instead. Chinonye J. Chidolue

It is a belief of the mediocre that extreme effort kills. Moffat Machingura

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. Sunday Adelaja

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

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

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

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

Watch out for what people commend you for and do it diligently. Don’t stop if compliments no longer come. Israelmore Ayivor

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

Diligence is God’s principle Sunday Adelaja

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

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

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

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 Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

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

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. Unknown

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

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 Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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. Unknown

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

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

A diligent hawker today, can be a great tycoon tomorrow Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains. William Penn

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence. Abigail Adams