Quotes about Diligence
Do right. Do your best.
— Lou Holtz
CHR. I seek an inheritance incorruptible, undefiled, and that fadeth not away [1 Pet. 1:4], and it is laid up in heaven, and safe there [Heb. 11:16], to be bestowed, at the time appointed, on them that diligently seek it.
— John Bunyan
The way of the slothful man is as a hedge of thorns, but the path of the righteous is made plain. —
— John Bunyan
Lazy people don't succeed.
— John Maxwell
Willa A. Foster commented, "Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.
— John Maxwell
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger.
— John Maxwell
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
— Henry David Thoreau
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
— Og Mandino
Yet a little sleep a little slumber a little folding of the hands to sleep.
— Anonymous
Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.
— Bill Hybels
The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.
— CS Lewis
Cautioning against socialist wealth confiscation schemes, Lincoln told a delegation of workingmen during the Civil War, "Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him labor diligently and build one of his own."
— Dinesh D'Souza