Quotes
Quotes about Diligence
That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in; and the best of me is diligence.
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
Diligence increaseth the fruit of toil. A dilatory man wrestles with losses.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397 In short: in all his ways and walks, whether as touching his own business, or his dealings with other men, he must keep his heart with all diligence, lest he do aught, or turn aside to aught, or suffer aught to spring up or dwell within him or about him, or let anything be done in him or through him, otherwise than were meet for God, and would be possible and seemly if God Himself were verily made Man. ... Theologia Germanica November 12, 1997 The Partisan Review, a journal of literary opinion representing a section of advanced secular thought, recently published a series of papers answering the question, "Why has there been a turn toward religion among intellectuals?" The asking of the question is significant. Few writers dispute the fact implied by it. Most of the contributors, whether they count themselves among those who have "turned to religion" or not, find the principal reason for it in the collapse of the optimistic hope that modern science and human good will would bring the world into an era of peace and justice. The confidence in that outcome has been so violently shaken that men must ask whether there are not higher resources than man's to sustain courage and hope. The faith of the Bible points to such sources. God works within the tragic destiny of human efforts with a healing power, and a reconciling spirit. Even those who have felt completely superior to all "outworn" religious notions, must look today at least wistfully to the possibility that such a God lives and works.
Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253 It is of the greatest importance for the soul to go to prayer with confidence, and such a pure and disinterested love as seeks nothing from the Father but the ability to please Him and to do His will; for a child who only proportions his diligence to his hope of reward renders himself unworthy of all reward. Go, then, to prayer, not that ye may enjoy spiritual delights, but that ye may be full or empty, just as it pleaseth God. This will preserve you in an evenness of spirit, either in desertion or in consolation, and will prevent your being surprised at dryness, or the apparent repulses of Him who is altogether Love. Constant prayer is to keep the heart always right towards God.
A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence.
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Nothing is so difficult that diligence cannot master it.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
Decay is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Diligence is a great teacher.
The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill ... Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance.
That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.
A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence.
In the diligence of his idleness. [Lat., Diligenter per vacuitatem suam.]
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
