Diligence

Each week I will post quotes from a different virtue. Last week’s virtue was forbearance. This week’s virtue is diligence.

Diligence is defined as the unrelenting and resolute endeavor to complete a task. Those with diligence are determined and insistent in a task. Diligence is the key ingredients for all success.

10 Virtue Wednesday Quotes: Diligence

1. “Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence”—Buddha

2. “Diligence is the mother of good luck” –Benjamin Franklin

3. “Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful” –Mark Twain

4. “He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers”—Zoroaster

5. “Nothing is so difficult that diligence cannot master it”.–Malagasy Proverb

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

7. “He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor”—Menander of Athens

8. “What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence”—Samuel Johnson

9. “Be a lamp unto yourself. Work out your liberation with diligence”— Buddha

10. “Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know” –Charles Kingsley

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