Diligent Quotes

• Diligence is the mother of good luck.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Mother, Business

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.2, Nayika Publishing

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• Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Life, Success, Mother

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  Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

  Abigail Adams

  Inspirational, Education, Perseverance

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• He who labors diligently need never despair.

  Menander

  Perseverance, Labor Day, Despair

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• He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

  Menander

  Inspirational, Success, Perseverance

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• Leisure is the time for doing something useful.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Time, Leisure, Leisure Time

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• You really have to work hard and apply yourself and by applying yourself and working hard and being diligent, you can achieve success.

  Julie Benz

  Work, Achieve, Hard

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• The gentleman prefers to be slow in word but diligent in action.

  Confucius

  Gentleman, Action

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• I don't think there's anything better than hearing your favorite band live.

  Slash

  Thinking, Band, Hearing

  Slash (2012). “Slash: The Autobiography”, p.51, HarperCollins UK

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• The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.

  William Godwin

  Desire, And Love, Reason

  William Godwin (1831). “Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries: Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author”, p.346

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• Obviously, people with low or even moderate incomes could not afford such savings rates, and even diligent savings from their low wages would not be enough to pay for either retirement or healthcare.

  William Greider

  Retirement, People, Income

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• Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

  Denis Diderot

  Creativity, Mean, Reflection

  John Hope Mason, Denis Diderot (1982). “The irresistible Diderot”

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• Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.

  Albert J. Nock

  Culture, Pedants, Forget

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• Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Work, Lazy, Laziness

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• To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Inspiring, Death

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• We are not brought by faith into a realm of passivity, but rather, we are brought into the realm of diligent activity.

  Alistair Begg

  Realms, Activity, Passivity

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• Give diligent heed to the things that are spoken from the Word of God.

  George Whitefield

  Giving, Word Of God, Heed

  George Whitefield, G. B. (1829). “The Revived Puritan. Select Works of ... G. W., ... Containing a Memoir of His Life, Etc. [Edited by G. B.]”, p.550

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• LIFE is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy. Peace is the interlude between two wars. You have no rose without a thorn; the diligent picker will avoid the pricks and gather the flower. There is no bee without the sting; cleverness consists in gathering the honey nevertheless.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Pain, War, Grief

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• I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman.

  Laurence Olivier

  Life, Wisdom, Thinking

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• Be patient, be diligent. Consistency is the key.

  Frank Mir

  Keys, Mma, Consistency

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• The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Agriculture, Tree, Fruit

  "Tusculanarum Disputationum". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book I, Chapter 14), translated, 45 BC.

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• God rewards the person who is diligent. And for those who will take time in their day to seek the Lord, for those who will take time to read His Word, for those who will take time to wait upon Him, He will reveal His truths to them.

  Greg Laurie

  God, Christian, Waiting

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• In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Preparation, Matter, Made

  "De Officiis (On Duties)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book I, Chapter 21), 44 BC.

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• A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the study of so vast a subject. A time will come when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them.

  Seneca the Younger

  Sky, Flying, Single Life

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• Diligent follow-up and follow-through will set you apart from the crowd and communicate excellence.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Excellence, Crowds

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