Diligence Quotes

“You don’t have to get it perfect, you just have to get it going. Babies don’t walk the first time they try, but eventually they get it right.”

-Jack Canfield

“Failing does not make us a failure, the only time we do become a failure is when we decide to stop trying anymore.”

-Bob Proctor

“Nothing is so difficult that diligence cannot master it.”

-Malagasy Proverb

“What we think, or what we know, or what we believe, is in the end, of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do.”

-John Ruskin

“Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains.”

-William Penn.

“Life doesn’t just happen to you. It’s all about choices and how you respond to every situation.”

-Jack Canfield

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

-Benjamin Franklin

“One of the main differences between those who succeed and those who fail can be found in how they approach life’s difficulties. Failures either try to avoid their problems or to work around them. Successful people accept them and work through them, even when it includes some suffering. It’s this process of meeting our problems head on and looking for solutions that gives life meaning.”

-Hal Urban

“You can’t hire someone Else to do your push-ups for you.”

-Jack Canfield

“When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work.”

-George Bernard Shaw

“Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.”

-Jack Canfield

“I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.”

-General George S. Patton

“The more the marble wastes, the more the statue grows.”

-Michelangelo

“Where luck is wanting, diligence is useless.”

-Spanish Proverb

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

-Thomas Edison

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

-Samuel Johnson