Diligence Quotes

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. (Samuel Johnson)
Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. View quote
Abigail Adams
During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades. View quote
Xi Jinping
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. View quote
Samuel Johnson
In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence. View quote
George Washington
Diligence increases the fruit of toil. A dilatory man ever wrestles with losses. View quote
Hesiod
The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. View quote
Confucius
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. View quote
George Mason
If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. ... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor. View quote
Nikola Tesla
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. View quote
Giorgio Vasari
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor. (Menander)
The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies - their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that force is legitimate only to the degree that it serves defensible political goals. Thus implies a constant exercise of due diligence... View quote
Michael Ignatieff
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. View quote
Francis Bacon
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. View quote
John Calvin
it must be plain also that we should not anxiously strive for riches and honors by relying on our own diligence or cleverness or by depending on the favor of men or by trusting in the notion of good luck, but that we should always expect the Lord to direct us to the lot he has provided for us. View quote
John Calvin
The more opportunities there are in a Society for some persons to live upon the toil of others, and the less those others may enjoy the fruits of their work themselves, the more is diligence killed, the former become insolent, the latter despairing, and both negligent. View quote
Anders Chydenius
Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence. View quote
Albrecht Dürer
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
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. View quote
Joshua Slocum
Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try. View quote
Atul Gawande
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)
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. View quote
Kenneth G. Wilson
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. View quote
Martin Chemnitz
When you're making an independent film what you don't have in time and money you have to make up with creativity and diligence. View quote
Matthew Lillard
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. View quote
William Henry Ashley