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Sometimes we find ourselves tired and disappointed. So, to help lift your spirits, here are the best quotes to help you stay diligent on your path to success.
What is diligence
Diligence is the act of performing a task tirelessly but with care and awareness.
Diligence is hard work. And hard work is required to achieve your goals and succeed in whatever venture you set your sights on.
But from time to time we find ourselves flagging as we strive to achieve our dreams. Because it entails a lot of hard work.
So, to help you to stay diligent, here are 35 of the best quotes from some of the world’s most astute thinkers.
These quotes will undoubtedly rekindle your passion. And encourage you to pursue your goals with passion and enthusiasm.
35 Quotes To Help You Stay Diligent
1. “There are two days in my calendar: This day and that day.”
- Martin Luther
2. “But I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence…”
- Charles Dickens
3. “Prefer diligence before idleness, unless you esteem rust above brightness.”
- Plato
5. “The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”
- Thomas Alva Edison
6. “Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.”
- Arnold Palmer
7. “That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in, and the best of me is diligence.”
- William Shakespeare, King Lear
9. “Active valour may often be the present of nature; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline.”
- Edward Gibbon
10. “Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them.”
- Benjamin Franklin
11. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.”
- Colin Powell
13. “Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.”
- Budhha
14. “The future depends on what you do today.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
15. “Nothing worth having comes easy.”
- Theodore Roosevelt
17. “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”
- Beverly Sills
18. “The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third. common sense.”
- Thomas Alva Edison
19. “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
- Abraham Lincoln
21. “I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.”
- Margaret Thatcher
22. “The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses- behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.”
- Muhammad Ali
23. “Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.”
- Samuel Johnson
25. “He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.”
- Benjamin Franklin
26. “Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.”
- Stephen King
27. “What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.”
- Samuel Johnson
28. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”
- Colin Powell
30. “Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.”
- Samuel Johnson
31. “I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There is no substitute for working hard.”
- Maria Bartiromo
32. “If people knew how hard I worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful after all.”
- Michelangelo
33. “Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.”
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35. “Care and diligence bring luck.”
- Thomas Fuller
Conclusion
Diligence is the carrying out of your responsibilities with care and awareness. It is required in order to achieve your objectives and be successful.
However, in the pursuit of your dreams, you can become exhausted and dissatisfied. As a result, you must encourage yourself with the best quotes from the world’s great thinkers.
Please share your thoughts or ideas about the 35 Best Inspirational Quotes To Help You Stay Diligentin the comments below. And if you liked this article, you might be interested as well in these articles:
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