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• ... the effort, diligence, and care required in practicing must be quickly suspended when pressure coming from anxiety or a desire for fast results causes them to degenerate.

  Paul Caponigro

  Effort, Anxiety, Desire

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• So we see, brethren and sisters that the words of Christ can be a personal Liahona for each of us, showing us the way. Let us now be slothful because of the easiness of the way. Let us in faith take the words of Christ into our minds and into our hearts as they are recorded in sacred scripture and as they are uttered by living prophets, seers, and revelators. Let us with faith and diligence feast upon the words of Christ, for the words of Christ will be our spiritual Liahona telling us all things what we should do.

  W. Rolfe Kerr

  Spiritual, Heart, Mind

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• 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. Never let your correspondence fall behind. Whatever piece of business you have in hand, before stopping, do all the labor pertaining to it which can then be done.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Fall, Men, Hands

  "Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 2" by Abraham Lincoln, New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 1953.

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• The law is more easily understood by few than many words. For all words are subject to ambiguity, and therefore multiplication of words in the body of the law is multiplication of ambiguity. Besides, it seems to imply (by too much diligence) that whosoever can evade the words is without the compass of the law.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Law, Body, Too Much

  Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Leviathan”, p.672, Thomas Hobbes

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• The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies - their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that force is legitimate only to the degree that it serves defensible poltical goals. Thus implies a constant exercise of due diligence.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Exercise, Goal, Political

  "The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror". Book by Michael Ignatieff, April 2004.

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• All composite things pass away. Strive for your own liberation with diligence.

  Gautama Buddha

  Passing Away, Strive, Liberation

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• If you look at the causes of the accidents, quite a few of them are operator error. We need people to be diligent and follow the rules of the road and drive more defensively.

  Bob McKenzie

  Errors, People, Needs

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• Becoming an artist cannot be taught. A degree and diligence is not a guarantee that one can become an 'artist.

  Scott Kahn

  Education, Artist, Guarantees That

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• Every strong conviction ends by taking possession of us; it overcomes and absorbs us, and tears us ruthlessly from everything else. Has the Cross so seized upon your life?

  L. E. Maxwell

  Strong, Tears, Overcoming

  St. Augustine, Dr. Howard Taylor, Mrs. Howard Taylor, Apostolic Fathers, J. Oswald Sanders (2010). “Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume”, p.2318, Moody Publishers

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• I balance my natural drive for speed and impact with a counterbalancing drive for significance, innovation and sustained customer intimacy. This involves slowing down and moving from transactive management, which focuses on speed, content, accuracy and productivity, to transformative leadership, which focuses on significance, context, authenticity and purpose. This critical shift requires constant diligence, discipline and practice.

  Kevin Cashman

  Moving, Impact, Practice

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• Many leave the labours of half their life to their executors and to chance, because they will not send them abroad unfinished, and are unable to finish them, having prescribed to themselves such a degree of exactness as human diligence can scarcely ontain.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Degrees, Half

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An essay on his life and genius”, p.262

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• I know of no such thing as genius, genius is nothing but labor and diligence.

  William Hogarth

  Genius, Labor, Knows

  "The Works of William Hogarth: Including the Analysis of Beauty and Five Days' Peregrination".

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• In the corporate world, if you have analysts, due diligence, and no horse sense, you've just described hell.

  Charlie Munger

  Horse, World, Due Diligence

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• Composition is for the most part an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.

  Samuel Johnson

  Perseverance, Writing, Effort

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.”, p.145

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• Frequently renew settled and holy resolutions. A soldier unresolved to fight may be easily defeated...The weakness of our graces, the strength of our temptations, and the diligence of our spiritual enemies, require strong resolutions.

  Stephen Charnock

  Spiritual, Strong, Fighting

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• Transient are conditioned things. Try to accomplish your aim with diligence.

  Gautama Buddha

  Words Of Wisdom, Trying, Accomplish

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• I warn you, Kelsey, that I'm an extremely patient man. I've had extensive practice in waiting out the enemy. My life as a tiger has taught me that attentive persistence and focused diligence always pay off. Consider yourself forewarned, priyatama. I'm on the hunt. I've caught your scent, and I won't be thwarted in my course.

  Colleen Houck

  Love, Persistence, Men

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• Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  War, Civilization, Mindfulness

  Andrew Forbes, David Henley, Okakura Kakuzo “The Illustrated Book of Tea”

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• I believe verbal felicity is the fruit of ardor, of diligence, and of refusing to be false.

  Marianne Moore

  Believe, Fruit, Felicity

  Marianne Moore, Patricia C. Willis (1986). “The complete prose of Marianne Moore”, Viking Pr

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• It is necessary for a Senator to be thoroughly acquainted with the constitution; and this is a knowledge of the most extensive nature; a matter of science, of diligence, of reflection, without which no Senator can possibly be fit for his office.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Reflection, Government, Office

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• It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called, by the generality of mankind, a particular genius.

  Samuel Johnson

  Genius, Firsts, Grew

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc”, p.197

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• he who finds he has wasted a shilling may by diligence hope to fetch it up again; but no repentance or industry can ever bring back one wasted hour.

  Hannah More

  Time, Fetch, May

  Hannah More (1835). “Works, Complete”, p.290

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• He that loveth God will do diligence to please God by his works, and abandon himself, with all his might, well for to do.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Might, Goodness, Abandon

  Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Tyrwhitt (1861). “The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer: To which are Added an Essay on His Language and Versification, and an Introductory Discourse, Togeher with Notes and a Glossary”, p.253

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• There is probably no greater idler than myself. And I would consider myself a lazy-bones if I did not write so many volumes, and if I did not admire my diligence once I begin writing.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Writing, Lazy, Idlers

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• Friendship hath the skill and observation of the best physician, the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse, and the tenderness and patience of the best mother.

  Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

  Friendship, Mother, Skills

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