Definition of Diligent

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Diligent

Prosecuted with careful attention and effort; careful; painstaking; not careless or negligent.

Interestedly and perseveringly attentive; steady and earnest in application to a subject or pursuit; assiduous; industrious.

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Diligent Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Diligent Translations

diligent in Danish is flittig
diligent in Dutch is ijverig, nijver, naarstig, vlijtig
diligent in Finnish is ahkera
diligent in Italian is diligente
diligent in Latin is impiger, industrius, diligens
diligent in Norwegian is flittig
diligent in Portuguese is aplicado
diligent in Spanish is industrioso

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