Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre…

“Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium - Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence.”

— Seneca

Diligence is a great teacher.

— Proverb

The easiest and quickest path into the esteem of traditional military authorities is by the appeal to the eye, rather than to the mind.…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

“His eyes had something dull about them, expressionless, the bored look of a mediocre intelligence that wrongly supposes it has “seen it all before.”

— Herman Koch

“mediocre amount of intelligence is sometimes most dangerous. It does not take one far enough.”

— Agatha Christie

To be mediocre, when only application and diligence would have netted superiority, is an error akin to sin.

— Spencer W. Kimball

There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care cannot accomplish.

— Seneca the Younger

In the corporate world, if you have analysts, due diligence, and no horse sense, you've just described hell.

— Charlie Munger

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

— Samuel Smiles

We study health, and we deliberate upon our meats and drink and air and exercises, and we hew and we polish every stone that…

— John Donne

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

— Irving Stone

Watch yourself with all diligence, lest the enemy steals near and robs you, depriving you of this great treasure, which is inner peace and…

— Lorenzo Scupoli

She spent hours drawing on her own, trying to perfect her craft. And when she got into music, she had that same diligence in…

— Laura Joplin

“Anytime I see a rainbow, what comes into my mind is how skillful and talented someone was to create an ark that didn't leak…

— Israelmore Ayivor

The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies - their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that force is…

— Michael Ignatieff