Diligent Quotes

• Diligence is the mother of good luck.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Mother, Business

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.2, Nayika Publishing

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• Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Life, Success, Mother

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

  Abigail Adams

  Inspirational, Education, Perseverance

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• He who labors diligently need never despair.

  Menander

  Perseverance, Labor Day, Despair

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

  Menander

  Inspirational, Success, Perseverance

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• Leisure is the time for doing something useful.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Time, Leisure, Leisure Time

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• 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

  Work, Achieve, Hard

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• I want people to fill their minds with passages of Scripture while they are well and strong, that they may have sure help in the day of need. I want them to be diligent in studying their Bibles, and becoming familiar with its contents, in order that the grand old Book may stand by them and talk with them when all earthly friends fail.

  J. C. Ryle

  Strong, Book, Order

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• The gentleman prefers to be slow in word but diligent in action.

  Confucius

  Gentleman, Action

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• I don't think there's anything better than hearing your favorite band live.

  Slash

  Thinking, Band, Hearing

  Slash (2012). “Slash: The Autobiography”, p.51, HarperCollins UK

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

  William Godwin

  Desire, And Love, Reason

  William Godwin (1831). “Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries: Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author”, p.346

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• We are not brought by faith into a realm of passivity, but rather, we are brought into the realm of diligent activity.

  Alistair Begg

  Realms, Activity, Passivity

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• 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

  Culture, Pedants, Forget

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• 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

  Retirement, People, Income

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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

  Creativity, Mean, Reflection

  John Hope Mason, Denis Diderot (1982). “The irresistible Diderot”

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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

  Work, Lazy, Laziness

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• 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.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Inspiring, Death

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• LIFE is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy. Peace is the interlude between two wars. You have no rose without a thorn; the diligent picker will avoid the pricks and gather the flower. There is no bee without the sting; cleverness consists in gathering the honey nevertheless.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Pain, War, Grief

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• Give diligent heed to the things that are spoken from the Word of God.

  George Whitefield

  Giving, Word Of God, Heed

  George Whitefield, G. B. (1829). “The Revived Puritan. Select Works of ... G. W., ... Containing a Memoir of His Life, Etc. [Edited by G. B.]”, p.550

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• 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

  Life, Wisdom, Thinking

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• Be patient, be diligent. Consistency is the key.

  Frank Mir

  Keys, Mma, Consistency

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• The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Agriculture, Tree, Fruit

  "Tusculanarum Disputationum". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book I, Chapter 14), translated, 45 BC.

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• The Bible is no lazy man's book! Much of its treasure, like the valuable minerals stored in the bowels of the earth, only yield up themselves to the diligent seeker.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Book, Men, Yield

  Matthew Henry, J. Gill, Arthur W. Pink (2001). “Exposition of I and II Samuel”, p.197, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• From this point of view, to avoid your strengths and to focus on your weaknesses isn't a sign of diligent humility. It is almost irresponsible. By contrast the most responsible, the most challenging, and, in the sense of being true to yourself, the most honorable thing to do is face up to the strength potential inherent in your talents and then find ways to realize it.

  Donald O. Clifton

  Humility, Views, Focus

  Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton (2001). “Now, Discover Your Strengths”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading.

  J. C. Ryle

  Reading, Intuition

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of Matthew”, p.24, Editora Dracaena

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