Quotations on Diligence 26 Quotes Found Displaying 1 through 26
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence. - Abigail Adams (Keywords: Chance, Diligence, Learning) Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance and strict diligence observed in the duty of sentinels. - William Henry Ashley (Keywords: War, Danger, Diligence, Duty, Now) Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes. - Miguel de Cervantes (Keywords: Mother, Goal, Diligence, Fortune, Idleness, Man, Wishes) Therefore we examine with considerable diligence the consensus of the true, learned, and purer antiquity, and we love and praise the testimonies of the fathers which agree with the Scripture. - Martin Chemnitz (Keywords: Love, Diligence, Fathers, Praise, Scripture) The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. - Confucius (Keywords: Life, Work, Diligence, Expectations, First, Tools) Every citizen who stops smoking, or loses a few pounds, or starts managing his chronic disease with real diligence, is caulking a crack for the benefit of us all. - Mitch Daniels (Keywords: Diligence, Disease, Smoking) I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time. - Charles Dickens (Keywords: Time, Determination, Diligence, Habits, Order, Punctuality) Diligence is the mother of good fortune. - Benjamin Disraeli (Keywords: Mother, Diligence, Fortune) I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease. - John Donne (Keywords: Diligence, Disease) Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence. - Albrecht Durer (Keywords: Knowledge, Care, Diligence, Judgment, Nothing) Diligence is the mother of good luck. - Benjamin Franklin (Keywords: Mother, Diligence, Luck) Care and diligence bring luck. - Thomas Fuller (Keywords: Care, Diligence, Luck) I used all diligence to arrive at London and therefore I now gave my crew a certificate under my hand, of my free and willing return, without persuasion or force by any one or more of them. - Henry Hudson (Keywords: Diligence, Force, London, Now, Persuasion) Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence. - Bill Hybels (Keywords: Dignity, Diligence, Heaven, Labor, Reward) What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. - Samuel Johnson (Keywords: Hope, Diligence, First) If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. - Samuel Johnson (Keywords: Determination, Perseverance, Strength, Despair, Diligence, Skill) The constitution is the ultimate custodian of social will and its making should be accorded all due diligence. - Mwai Kibaki (Keywords: Constitution, Diligence, Will) Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know. - Charles Kingsley (Keywords: Work, Strength, Being, Cheerfulness, Content, Diligence, Self, Temperance, Will) Attend with Diligence and strict Integrity to the Interest of your Correspondents and enter into no Engagements which you have not the almost certain Means of performing. - George Mason (Keywords: Diligence, Integrity, Interest) He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor. - Menander (Keywords: Despair, Diligence, Labor) I am still doing my due diligence. A vote on a Supreme Court nominee is a lifetime appointment and when the court decides, it is the law of the land. - Robert Menendez (Keywords: Court, Diligence, Land, Law, Vote) Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains. - William Penn (Keywords: Faith, Diligence, Mountains, Patience) It's basic due diligence to make sure that whenever a foreign entity acquires a controlling interest in a U.S. company that national security isn't threatened. - Dave Reichert (Keywords: Company, Diligence, Interest, National security) To be taken into account were some years of schooling, where I studied with diligence Neptune's laws, and these laws I tried to obey when I sailed overseas; it was worth the while. - Joshua Slocum (Keywords: Diligence, Laws, Worth, Years) These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes, while on the other hand too much effort and diligence sometimes saps the vitality and powers of those who never know when to leave off. - Giorgio Vasari (Keywords: Idea, Inspiration, Diligence, Effort, Vitality) The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers today is largely due to the extraordinary diligence of the Nobel committees. - Kenneth G. Wilson (Keywords: Science, Vision, Diligence, Public, Today)
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