Nuggets of Wisdom
This audio edition has been prepared for your listening pleasure. It includes over 400 incisive quotes on a variety of themes and by some of the most erudite minds in the history of humankind, interspersed with brief introductory remarks from the author. The quotes have been broadly categorized into 19 chapters (and themes), yet they touch on a wider variety of issues including excellence, success, leadership, goals, diligence and many more.
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Top 40 Diligence Quotes That Will Inspire You To Reach For Your Goals
Diligence is a critical ingredient for lasting success in virtually every facet of human endeavour. That said, there are those who will prefer to cut corners to attain certain supposed laurels and some who may want the good things of life on a silver platter, and may actually realize such aspirations though this rarely happens. My point is this: Your most cherished dreams, goals or aspirations will only see the light of day on the backdrop of diligent pursuit of same.
I have put together inspiring diligent quotes from some of the world`s incisive minds. They make an interesting read, but much more than that, these quotes will inspire you to reach for your goals with singleness of purpose and relentless assiduousness.
1. “Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven`t planted” –David Bly
2. “All roads that lead to success have to pass through hard work boulevard at some point” -Eric Thomas
3. “Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference” -Lou Holtz
4. “Nothing worth having comes easy” -Theodore Roosevelt
5. “The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense” –Thomas Alva Edison
6. “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going” –Beverly Sills
7. “Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people, so most people don`t recognize them” –Ann Landers
8. “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle” -Abraham Lincoln
9. “Performance-wise, you really need to be down in the trenches; you need to do the hard work, for a lot of reasons: To build yourself as a performer, to get a sense of the audience, to work hard and to wonder, ‘Do I really want to do this?’” -Joan Jett
10. “I learned the value of hard work by working hard” -Margaret Mead
11. “Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you” –Arnold Palmer
12. “Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat” -Ann Landers
13. “The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it's possible to achieve the American dream” -Tommy Hilfiger
14. “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
15. “There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance” -Cesar Chavez
16. “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
17. “The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. work is the key to success, and hard work can help you accomplish anything” -Vince Lombardi
18. “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
19. “The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools” -Menander of Athens
20. “He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor” -Benjamin Franklin
21. “Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work” -Stephen King
22. “Dig until you hit rock. Then take out that jackhammer and go a little deeper” –Allison Brennan
23. “My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment” –Oprah Winfrey
24. “The separation of talent and skill is one of the largest misconceptions in modern society. Talent is something you are born with, but skill can only be attained through Hours and Hours of hard work perfecting your talent as a craft. Which is why Talent will fail you without skill” –Will Smith
25. “What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence” –Samuel Johnson
26. “Genius is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration” –Thomas Alva Edison
27. “I think the thing about that was I was always willing to work; I was not the fastest or biggest player but I was determined to be the best football player I could be on the football field and I think I was able to accomplish that through hard work” -Jerry Rice
28. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure” -Colin Powell
29. “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand” -Vince Lombardi
30. “The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day” -Abraham Lincoln
31. “Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance” -Samuel Johnson
32. “A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich” –Proverbs 10:4
33. I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true--hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it” -Ray Bradbury
34. “I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard” -Maria Bartiromo
35. “If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
36. “Education, actual learning--it is hard work. It's very personal. Your parents don't teach you anything. Your teachers don't teach you anything. The government doesn't teach you anything. You read it. You don't understand it; you read it again. You break a pencil and read it again” -Dean Kamen
37. “If people knew how hard I worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all” –Michelangelo
38. “Go to the ant, O Sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. Without having any chief, officer, or ruler, she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest” –Proverbs 6:6-8
39. “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” -Kevin Hart
40. “Without labor nothing prospers” –Sophocles
Compiled by Daniel Dela Dunoo
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