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• The learned should be vigorous and diligent, but they should also be free-spirited. If they are too rigorous and austere, they have the death-dealing quality of autumn but lack the life-giving quality of spring. How can they develop people then?

  Zicheng Hong

  Spring, Autumn, People

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• If you love something and if you're committed and diligent - the things happen!

  Lauryn Hill

  Committed, Happens, Ifs

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• The thing about discipline is that people misunderstand the word discipline. People think discipline in the dog world is punishment. Discipline is how you achieve what you want to achieve in life. You have to be very focused, very disciplined, very consistent, very diligent. All of those things.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, Thinking, Punishment

  "Cesar Millan Has A Brand-New Show And He's Here To Save Your Dog". Interview with David Morris, www.askmen.com. February 27, 2015.

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• But the idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through their alliances with words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words. But words turn and twist the understanding. This it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences inactive. Words are mostly cut to the common fashion and draw the distinctions which are most obvious to the common understanding. Whenever an understanding of greater acuteness or more diligent observation would alter those lines to suit the true distinctions of nature, words complain.

  Francis Bacon

  Fashion, Philosophy, Believe

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• There are things in your life you can control - and there are variables you can't. The more diligent you are at controlling what you can, the more influence you'll have over your destiny. You just have to figure out which are which.

  Carleton Young

  Destiny, Over You, Variables

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• Against the backdrop of people who avoid work, cut corners, and do half-hearted jobs, a diligent man stands out. Practicing diligence is an excellent way to stand out for Christ at home, in the workplace, and even at church. Today, complete each one of your tasks, however big or small, with diligence.

  David Jeremiah

  Jobs, Home, Cutting

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• Whatever I've experienced in my life is a part of my story, and I'm proud of that. But it's someone who wakes up early, works all day, believes in charitable work, business-minded, diligent, accountable, problem-solving... I'm so much about school, consistency and tradition.

  Drew Barrymore

  Believe, School, Charitable Work

  "Drew Welcomes Second Daughter" by Lauren Milligan, www.vogue.co.uk. April 23, 2014.

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• Those rare individuals society labels geniuses are almost always freaks of nature and are naturally gifted rather than being diligent students who became geniuses because of their education.

  James Morcan

  Labels, Genius, Freak

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• There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care cannot accomplish.

  Seneca the Younger

  Effort, Care, Diligence

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• Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard, and many a time Th' harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear; for several virtues Have I liked several women; never any With so full soul but some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed, And put it to the foil.

  William Shakespeare

  Grace, Soul, Ears

  William Shakespeare, David Lindley (2002). “The Tempest”, p.159, Cambridge University Press

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• Be prudent, diligent, temperate and discreet. Remember that every human being has a claim upon your kind offices.

  Albert Pike

  Kindness, Office, Prudent

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• Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.

  Plutarch

  Wickedness, Misery, Shame

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• We go in with eyes wide open and recognize there will be a lot of hard work involved. But we anticipate having success. We feel like we have assembled a great group of people. If we were going to do it any other way, we would have made an announcement a long time ago. We were very diligent.

  Troy Aikman

  Hard Work, Eye, Long

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• Why be thrifty when your old age and health care are provided for, no matter how profligate you act in your youth? Why be prudent when the state insures your bank deposits, replaces your flooded-out house, buys all the wheat you can grow? ... Why be diligent when half of your earnings are taken from you and given to the idle?

  David Frum

  Taken, House, Age

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• You're a wicked man." "Thank you. It's taken years of diligent practice.

  Iain Banks

  Taken, Men, Years

  Iain M. Banks (2008). “Use Of Weapons”, p.237, Hachette UK

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• If Steinitz continually took pains to discover combinations, the success or failure of his diligent search could not be explained by him as due to chance. Hence, he concluded that some characteristic, a quality of the given position, must exist that would indicate the success or the failure of the search before it was actually undertaken.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Pain, Quality, Chance

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• The Spirit of the Lord says that God is placing a crown of manifestation on the heads of His faithful, diligent, chosen saints - a crown of great favor and authority with God and men - a new and greater installment of the fruits and blessings of the Spirit. Another measure, and another, and another.

  Todd Bentley

  Blessing, Men, Faithful

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• I became convinced that knowing lots of people was kind of skill, something that the diligent can overcome.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Skills, Knowing, People

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• I am a firm believer that you work as hard as you can, you're diligent, and God's gonna do with it what He wants to do with it. Whether it's big or little, it's still going to do what it needs to do and get into the hands it needs to get into.

  John Reuben Zappin

  Hands, Needs, Want

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• However diligent she may be, however dedicated, no mother can escape the larger influences of culture, biology, fate . . . until we can actually live in a society where mothers and children genuinely matter, ours is an essentially powerless responsibility. Mothers carry out most of the work orders, but most of the rules governing our lives are shaped by outside influences.

  Mary Blakely

  Mother, Children, Responsibility

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• Rage is a powerful energy that with diligent practice can be transformed into fierce compassion. However much we disagree with our enemies, our task is to identify with them. They too feel justified in their point of view.

  Gautama Buddha

  Powerful, Compassion, Views

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• It's a reality we have to understand. (O'Neal) has to be more diligent. We have to be more diligent protecting him. We need him in the game.

  Pat Riley

  Reality, Games, Needs

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• Anytime we think the problem is 'out there,' that thought is the problem. We empower what's out there to control us. The change paradigm is 'outside-in' - what's out there has to change before we can change.  The proactive approach is to change from the 'inside-out': to be different, and by being different, to effect positive change in what's out there - I can be more resourceful, I can be more diligent, I can be more creative, I can be more cooperative.

  Stephen Covey

  Thinking, Empowering, Creative

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• All the other stuff without love? Not worth a whole lot. Love starts with ourselves and needs to be approached like anything else we want to master-with a lot of diligent studying and practicing!

  Brian Johnson

  Motivational, Needs, Want

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• The first and principal duty of a pastor is to feed the flock by diligent preaching of the word

  John Owen

  Firsts, Flocks, Duty

  John Owen (1853). “The works ...”, p.74

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