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Quotes about Diligence

What is more Paradise than a single, clear obstacle worth overcoming?

Laura Teresa Marquez
Source: Early Morning Conversation
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)
Source: 1780
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He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

Menander (342 BC - 291 BC)
 
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When superior people hear of the Way, they carry it out with diligence. When middling people hear of the Way, it sometimes seems to be there, sometimes not. When lesser people hear of the Way, they ridicule it greatly. If they didn't laugh at it, it wouldn't be the Way.

Lao Tzu : Chinese philosopher & mystic, founder of Taoism
Lao Tzu (c.604 - 531 B.C.)
Source: Tao Te Ching
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But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Thomas Morell (1703 - 1784)
Source: Joshua 22:5.
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The Seven Factors of Awakening are mindfulness, investigation of phenomena, diligence, joy, ease, concentration, and letting go.

Thich Nhat Hanh : Gaia Explorer
Thich Nhat Hanh
 
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Can the garden afford any thing more delightful to view than those forests of asparagus, artichokes, lettuce, pease, beans and other legumes and edulous plants so different in colour and of such various shapes, rising at it were from the dead and piercing the ground in so many thousand places as they do, courting the admiration or requiring the care of the diligent Gardiner.

Stephen Switzer
Source: The Practical Gardener, 1727
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium

Lucius Annaeus Seneca : Spanish-born Roman (Stoic) philosopher, statesman & tutor of Nero
Seneca (4 BC - 65 AD)
 
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There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care can not accomplish.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca : Spanish-born Roman (Stoic) philosopher, statesman & tutor of Nero
Seneca (4 BC - 65 AD)
 
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Dr. Samuel Johnson : English poet, critic, lexicographer, creator of first English dictionary
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
 
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Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.

Dr. Samuel Johnson : English poet, critic, lexicographer, creator of first English dictionary
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
Source: Abyssinia. Rasselas. Chap. xii.
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The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.

Samuel Adams (1722 - 1803)
Source: Article published in 1771.
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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres, and infallibly prevails at last.

Lord Chesterfield Stanhope (1694 - 1773)
 
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I observe the physician with the same diligence as he the disease.

John Donne : English metaphysical poet & Anglican preacher
John Donne (1572 - 1631)
Source: Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, 1624, no. 6
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My share of the work of the world may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious. Darwin could work only half an hour at a time; but in many diligent half-hours he laid anew the foundations of philosophy. Green, the historian, tells us that the world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

H. Kellogg
 
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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.

Sir Francis Bacon : English statesman, lawyer, philosopher & essayist
Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
 
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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others.

Sir Francis Bacon : English statesman, lawyer, philosopher & essayist
Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
Source: Essays. Of Studies, 1625
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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 (1713 - 1784)
 
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The gentleman has nine cares. In seeing he is careful to see clearly; in hearing he is careful to hear distinctly; in his looks he is careful to be kind, in his manner to be respectful, in his words to be sincere, in his work to be diligent. When in doubt he is careful to ask for information; when angry he has a care for the consequences; and when he sees a chance for gain, he thinks carefully whether the pursuits of it would be right.

Confucius : Chinese philosopher, founder of Confucianism
Confucius (c. 551 - c. 479 BC)
 
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The gentleman prefers to be slow in word but diligent in action.

Confucius : Chinese philosopher, founder of Confucianism
Confucius (c. 551 - c. 479 BC)
 
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Some people are very earnest after the things of God, and he who seeks finds, and the more he seeks in the right direction the more he finds. He that is dilatory in searching after the things of God, obtains but little; he that is diligent obtains much. All may receive it, but they must obtain it in the way that God has appointed, all receiving their measure according to their diligence and desire; but the spirit is the same.

Charles W. Penrose (1832 - 1925)
Source: Journal of Discourses 24:88
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Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance, self-control, diligence, strength of will, content, and a hundred other virtues which the idle never know.

Charles Kingsley (1819 - 1875)
Source: The Water Babies
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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 : American entrepreneur, statesman, scientist & philosopher
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
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Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Benjamin Franklin : American entrepreneur, statesman, scientist & philosopher
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
 
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But when great and ingenious artists behold their so inept performances, not undeservedly do they ridicule the blindness of such men; since sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence. Now the sole reason why painters of this sort are not aware of their own error is that they have not learnt Geometry, without which no one can either be or become an absolute artist; but the blame for this should be laid upon their masters, who are themselves ignorant of this art.

Albrecht Derer (1471 - 1528)
Source: The Art of Measurement. 1525.
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Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)
Source: Letter to John Quincy Adams, May 8, 1780
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The young man who would succeed must identify his interests with those of his employer and exercise the same diligence in matters entrusted to him as he would in his own affairs. Back of all the gifts the candidate for success may possess must be a willing capacity for hard work. . . . Youth today is not considered a handicap in selecting men for responsible jobs, as it was twenty years ago. . . . In almost any field today in which a youngster has an intelligent interest, the road to the top is open as it never was before. But the one way to the top is by persistent, intelligent, hard work.

A. T. Mercier
 
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