Top 218 Diligent Quotes & Sayings

The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.

My tip is to work hard, be diligent and dedicated.

The first and principal duty of a pastor is to feed the flock by diligent preaching of the word

I cannot say that I was a particularly diligent student, especially during the lower grades.

Diligent accumulation of personal wealth is not inherently ungodly so long as it is complemented by equally diligent distribution of personal wealth.

Integrity makes my job easier. It's deception and dishonesty that requires so much diligent effort.

I try to be a good, diligent actor.

Be prudent, diligent, temperate and discreet. Remember that every human being has a claim upon your kind offices.

We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?

Ideas do not always come in a flash but by diligent trial-and-error experiments that take time and thought.

Be patient, be diligent. Consistency is the key.

I think we Chinese are just as capable, as diligent, as hardworking, as peace-loving, and as creative as people everywhere.

I've learned to use big words. Because I'm an avid reader, I can prove myself as a smart and diligent person.

He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebearers, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.

You're a wicked man." "Thank you. It's taken years of diligent practice.

Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading.

Leave all human injustices to the Lord, for God is the Judge, but as to yourself, be diligent in loving everybody with a pure heart.

Prayer doesn't just change things - it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.

Like men, women have to be diligent and work hard.

The spirit of Southwest Airlines is exuberant, it's caring, it's dedicated, it's diligent, it's fun, it's rewarding, it's a joy.

When it came to formal classes, I was a slacker. But I've always been a diligent autodidact and can teach myself virtually any subject if I have a serious interest in it.

Seek wisdom. Wisdom waits to be gathered. She cannot be bartered or sold. She is a fight for the diligent. And only the diligent will find her. The lazy man - the stupid man - never even looks. Though wisdom is available to many, she is found by few. Seek wisdom. Find her, and you will find success and contentment.

It's true the Holy Spirit alone can reproduce the character of our Lord Jesus, and we must always abide in Christ. But the Bible also makes us active partners in the process, and we must be diligent to do our part. "Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed".

A diligent Scholer, and the Master's paid. [A diligent scholar, and the master's paid.]

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.

I became convinced that knowing lots of people was kind of skill, something that the diligent can overcome.

Give diligent heed to the things that are spoken from the Word of God.

State government is filled with dedicated, diligent professionals.

The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.

I'm generally pretty responsible and diligent, but people make mistakes.

These atheist cultures were certainly diligent in preserving the relics of their saints.

As society has shifted from an agrarian to an urban structure, the joy and necessity of diligent, hard work have been neglected.

I went to Illinois. Most people think I went to Princeton or something. But I was never a diligent student.

Performance ought to improve with experience, and pressure is an obstacle that the diligent can overcome.

There's a strong body of evidence that shows that the more diligent we are in ensuring that guns are in the appropriate hands, the safer our communities will be.

Through humble prayer, diligent preparation, and faithful service, we can succeed in our sacred callings.

I know there are limits to what a coach can accomplish in improving speechmaking unless the subject is a diligent student of himself.

I think there's a danger, for me at least, in retreating and going inward and depression. I have to stay diligent against that tendency.

No matter how diligent or persistent you have been, there is not one of us who made this journey toward success by ourselves.

Without a sincere and diligent effort in every area of obedience, there will be no sucessful mortification of any one besetting sin.

True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.

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.

It's a reality we have to understand. (O'Neal) has to be more diligent. We have to be more diligent protecting him. We need him in the game.

To be rich be diligent; move on Like heav'ns great movers that enrich the earth; Whose moment's sloth would show the world undone; And make the spring straight bury all her birth. Rich are the diligent who can command Time--nature's stock.

I come from a painting background, and although my painting is completely different from my performances, there is something about the fundamentals of that training that transfers over to this idea of an exercise and being diligent about mapping something out in advance - even if it is just being aesthetically diligent.

There is a fine art to making enemies and it requires diligent cultivation. It's not as easy as it looks.

The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.

The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume.

If you love something and if you're committed and diligent - the things happen!

Religion is preserved by wealth; knowledge by diligent practice; a king by conciliatory words; and a home by a dutiful housewife.

Great art is created only through diligent and painstaking effort to perfect and polish oneself.

There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care cannot accomplish.

Among sportsmen are the noble, the diligent and the caring, as there are the callous, the cheats and the criminals.

Endeavour-with most diligent labour, O aspiring artist!-to master content. The form will rise to meet you.

Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.

The gentleman prefers to be slow in word but diligent in action.

Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.

I'm a diligent person, and that came directly from having hardworking parents.

I believe in being diligent but also cut yourself some slack. It's okay in the grand scheme of life.