Leonardo da Vinci
Artist, Scientist, Inventor
"Learn diligence before speedy execution."
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Diligence
34 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful."
Plato
Philosopher
"Prefer diligence before idleness, unless you esteem rust above brightness."
Gautama Buddha
Spiritual Teacher
"All compounded things are subject to decay. Strive with diligence!"
Antonin Artaud
Playwright, Actor, Theorist
"Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness."
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"It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called, by the generality of mankind, a particular genius."
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"There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care cannot accomplish."
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"Devotion is diligence without assurance"
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"Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep."
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"By diligence and patience, the mouse bit in two the cable."
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"Diligence in employments of less consequence is the most successful introduction to greater enterprises."
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"Diligence which, as it avails in all things, is also of the utmost moment in pleading causes. Diligence is to be particularly cultivated by us; it is to be constantly exerted; it is capable of effecting almost everything."
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"Moreover, a true Christian will not ascribe any prosperity to his own diligence, industry, or good fortune, but he will acknowledge that God is the author of it."
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"Applause abates diligence."
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"Transient are conditioned things. Try to accomplish your aim with diligence."
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"When you lack interest in the case the job will very likely lack skill and diligence in the performance."
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"The Service without Hope Is tenderest, I think-- ... There is no Diligence like that That knows not an Until"
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"Patience is emotional diligence."
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"All composite things pass away. Strive for your own liberation with diligence."
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