Diligent Quotes

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.
Buddha

Life, Death, Wise

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

Time, Person, Lazy

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

Nature, Reason, Creative

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

Success, Work, Yourself

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

God, Remember, Poet

For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom.
Muqtada al Sadr

Freedom, Religious, Rules

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

Love, Reason, Himself

And this year, when we end the cruel, defeatist practice of passing children who cannot read into fourth grade, and when our most diligent students begin to graduate from high school in 11 years, and get a head start on college costs with the dollars they earned through their hard work, others will take notice of Indiana yet again.
Mitch McConnell

Work, School, End

I'm a diligent person, and that came directly from having hardworking parents.
Rebecca Romijn

Parents, Person, Directly

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

Enough, Either, Pay

After much diligent research, aided by other women, I gradually came to understand that beneath the familiar Goddesses of the patriarchy, there is a much more ancient Goddess.
Carol P. Christ

Women, Understand, After

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

Learning, Forgetting, Culture

I am very, very diligent and extremely hard-working.
Lana Parrilla

I cannot say that I was a particularly diligent student, especially during the lower grades.
Koichi Tanaka

Cannot, Student, Grades

I try to be a good, diligent actor.
Moon Bloodgood

Good, Try, Actor

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