Diligence Quotes

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.
Buddha

Chaos, Strive, Inherent

Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Benjamin Franklin

Good, Mother, Luck

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
Confucius

Life, Work, Perfect

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
Benjamin Disraeli

Good, Mother, Fortune

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Samuel Johnson

Great, Strength, Impossible

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.
Charles Dickens

Time, Done, Order

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

Learning, Chance, Ardor

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
Charles Kingsley

Work, Best, Strength

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
William Penn

Faith, Patience, Mountains

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Samuel Johnson

Hope, Learn, Ease

Care and diligence bring luck.
Thomas Fuller

Care, Luck, Bring

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
Miguel de Cervantes

Good, Best, Mother

Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.
Bill Hybels

Down, Cannot, Heaven

I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
John Donne

Same, Disease, Observe

Creativity itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process. Learn to love the process and let whatever happens next happen, without fussing too much about it. Work like a monk, or a mule, or some other representative metaphor for diligence. Love the work. Destiny will do what it wants with you, regardless.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Love, Work, Care

Persevere in virtue and diligence.
Plautus

Virtue, Persevere

Every citizen who stops smoking, or loses a few pounds, or starts managing his chronic disease with real diligence, is caulking a crack for the benefit of us all.
Mitch Daniels

Real, Smoking, Few

The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.
Venus Williams

Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.
Tony Kushner

Politics, Art, Patience

Attend with Diligence and strict Integrity to the Interest of your Correspondents and enter into no Engagements which you have not the almost certain Means of performing.
George Mason

Integrity, Means, Almost

The constitution is the ultimate custodian of social will and its making should be accorded all due diligence.
Mwai Kibaki

Making, Social, Ultimate

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

Despair, Labor, Diligently

Everything yields to diligence.
Antiphanes

Everything, Yields

It's basic due diligence to make sure that whenever a foreign entity acquires a controlling interest in a U.S. company that national security isn't threatened.
Dave Reichert

Sure, Security, Company

Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.
Albrecht Durer

Knowledge, Care, Nothing

Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance and strict diligence observed in the duty of sentinels.
William Henry Ashley

War, Point, Might

When you're making an independent film what you don't have in time and money you have to make up with creativity and diligence.
Matthew Lillard

Time, Money, Creativity

These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes, while on the other hand too much effort and diligence sometimes saps the vitality and powers of those who never know when to leave off.
Giorgio Vasari

Sometimes, Off, Idea

During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.
Xi Jinping

Good, Home, History

I am still doing my due diligence. A vote on a Supreme Court nominee is a lifetime appointment and when the court decides, it is the law of the land.
Robert Menendez

Law, Vote, Land

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