diligence quotes

We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

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

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.