Diligence

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.[i]

Diligence is the mother of good luck.[ii] Everything yields to diligence.[iii] I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.[iv]

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.[v] Diligence is a great teacher.[vi] Persevere in virtue and diligence.[vii]

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment...; If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.[viii] The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.[ix]

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.[x] Indecision is debilitating; it feeds upon itself; it is, one might almost say, habit-forming. Not only that, but it is contagious; it transmits itself to others.[xi]

When you have to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.[xii]

If you decide not to decide, you have already decided.[xiii] Vacillating people seldom succeed. Successful men and women are very careful in reaching their decisions, and very persistent and determined in action thereafter.[xiv] There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.[xv]

You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.[xvi] We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.[xvii] Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.[xviii] We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.[xix]

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.[xx] The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.[xxi] Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might as well put that passing time to the best possible use.[xxii] I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do.[xxiii]

Always direct your thoughts to those truths that will give you confidence, hope, joy, love, thanksgiving, and turn away your mind from those that inspire you with fear, sadness, depression.[xxiv]

Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.[xxv]

Decision is the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made, nothing happens.... Decision is the courageous facing of issues, knowing that if they are not faced, problems will remain forever unanswered.[xxvi]

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.[xxvii] Confidence awakens confidence.[xxviii] The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth too much of that which we have in others.[xxix]

Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.[xxx]

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.[xxxi] Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.[xxxii] Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.[xxxiii] If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.[xxxiv]

The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions.[xxxv] In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do. The worst thing you can do is nothing.[xxxvi] My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are cheap; you make them because they're right.[xxxvii] When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.[xxxviii]

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.[xxxix]

It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.[xl] Please all, and you will please none.[xli]

Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days ... What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.[xlii] When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.[xliii]

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.[xliv]

We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough.[xlv]

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.[xlvi] Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.[xlvii]

We choose to go…not because (it is) easy, but because (it is) hard, because that goal will serve to measure and organize the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.[xlviii]

A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres, and infallibly prevails at last.[xlix] Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.[l] What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.[li]

Decay is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.[lii] Nothing is so difficult that diligence cannot master it.[liii] There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care can not accomplish.[liv]

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.[lv] Every noble work is at first impossible.[lvi] A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence.[lvii] He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.[lviii]

That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in and the best of me is diligence.[lix] When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work.[lx]

What is more Paradise than a single, clear obstacle worth overcoming?[lxi]

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[i] Benjamin Disraeli

[ii] Benjamin Franklin

[iii] Antiphanes

[iv] Charles Dickens

[v] William Penn

[vi] Saudi Arabian Proverb

[vii] Titus Maccius Plautus

[viii] Franklin D. Roosevelt

[ix] Unknown Author

[x] Jim Rohn

[xi] H. A. Hopf

[xii] William James

[xiii] Unknown Author

[xiv] L. G. Elliott

[xv] William James

[xvi] Unknown Author

[xvii] Earl Nightingale

[xviii] Bertrand Russell

[xix] Helen Keller

[xx] Napoleon

[xxi] Elbert Hubbard

[xxii] Earl Nightingale

[xxiii] Eleanor Roosevelt

[xxiv] Bertrand Wilbertforce

[xxv] William J.H. Boetcker

[xxvi] Wilfred A. Peterson

[xxvii] Marcus Garvey

[xxviii] Friedrich Von Sachsen

[xxix] Francois De La Rochefoucauld

[xxx] John Milton

[xxxi] Vincent Lombardi

[xxxii] Samuel Johnson

[xxxiii] Stan Smith

[xxxiv] Henry David Thoreau

[xxxv] Mike Krzyzewski

[xxxvi] Theodore Roosevelt

[xxxvii] Theodore Hesburgh

[xxxviii] William Joseph Slim

[xxxix] Peter Drucker

[xl] Roy Disney

[xli] Aesop

[xlii] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[xliii] Sigmund Freud

[xliv] Booker T. Washington

[xlv] Helen Keller

[xlvi] Napoleon Bonaparte

[xlvii] Ralph Waldo Emerson

[xlviii] John Fitzgerald Kennedy

[xlix] Lord Chesterfield Stanhope

[l] Samuel Johnson

[li] Samuel Johnson

[lii] Buddha

[liii] Malagasy Proverb

[liv] Seneca

[lv] Confucius

[lvi] Thomas Carlyle

[lvii] Chinese Proverb

[lviii] Menander

[lix] William Shakespeare

[lx] George Bernard Shaw

[lxi] Laura Teresa Marquez