Quotes about Diligence
Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity.
- Calvin Coolidge
What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.
- Cicero
When you approach every job enthusiastically in a spirit of friendly cooperation, you distinguish yourself from the vast majority of people.
- Napoleon Hill
The habit of rendering more service than is expected
- Napoleon Hill
Every achievement worth remembering is stained with the blood of diligence and scarred by the wounds of disappointment
- Charles Swindoll
Missionaries labor diligently to teach and baptize those who accept the gospel. In the process, their own testimonies become deeply rooted.
- Joseph Wirthlin
Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.
- George Washington
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.
- Anonymous
I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
- John Donne
I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can, you can't do any better. So when I go to sleep I turn everything over to the Lord and forget it.
- Harry S. Truman
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
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.
- St. Thomas Aquinas