Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for…

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

— Abigail Adams

I believe verbal felicity is the fruit of ardor, of diligence, and of refusing to be false.

— Marianne Moore

“Diligence does not work if there is a lack of innate talent.”

— Irving Stone

“Diligence without intelligence is tragedy, not success.”

— Kevin Keenoo

Building our homes as fortresses of righteousness for protection from the world takes constant labor and diligence.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

Diligence, above all, is the mother of good luck.

— Samuel Smiles

“But where do we find what's lasting? Where do the deathless things hide?”

— Adam Zagajewski

In proportion as the ardor of divine love brings you nearer to God, so will a larger concourse of saintly brethren flock to you.…

— John Cassian

As each man's strength gives out, as it no longer responds to his will, the inertia of the whole gradually comes to rest on…

— Carl von Clausewitz

Before Midnight is one of the years best movies. Full to the brim with humor, heartbreak, and ravishing romance. Richard Linklater directs with ardor…

— Peter Travers

Always man needs woman for his friend. He needs her clearer vision, her subtler insight, her softer thought, her winged soul, her pure and…

— Mary C. Ames

In work consists the true pride of life; grounded in active employment, though early ardor may abate, it never degenerates into indifference, and age…

— Leopold Hartley Grindon

There was a new kind of strength in the gravity of her face, and her colors still gave her that look of deep-seated health…

— Willa Cather

Without wishing to damp the ardor of curiosity or influence the freedom of inquiry, I will hazard a prediction that, after the most industrious…

— John Adams

“She could have rambled with all the fervor of a woman who had loved one entity for longer than most races live, and with…

— Darrell Drake