Diligence Quotes
186 Diligence quotes by 134 unique authors
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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,…
— Charles Kingsley
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Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.
— Tony Kushner
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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.
— Matthew Lillard
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Buying a home today is a complex process, but that in no way excuses home buyers from their obligation for due diligence.
— Henry Paulson
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Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
— William Penn
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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…
— Joshua Slocum
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The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's…
— Venus Williams
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Devotion is diligence without assurance
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some…
— Francis Bacon
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Soul mates' are fiction and an illusion; and while every young man and young woman will seek with all diligence and prayerfulness to find a…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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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…
— Atul Gawande
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We always hope for the easy fix: the one simple change that will erase a problem in a stroke. But few things in life work…
— Atul Gawande
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Give us, O Lord, a steadfast heart, which no unworthy affection may drag downwards; give us an unconquered heart, which no tribulation can wear out;…
— Thomas Aquinas
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The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.
— Abraham Lincoln
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Devotion is diligence without assurance. If faith were rational, it wouldn't be by definition faith. Faith is walking face-first and full speed into the dark.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Devotion is diligence without assurance. Faith is a way of saying "Yes, I pre-accept the terms of the universe and I embrace in advance what…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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When we realize a constant enemy of the soul abides within us, what diligence and watchfulness we should have! How woeful is the sloth and…
— John Owen
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People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is defined…
— Atul Gawande
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When one is writing a letter, he should think that the recipient will make it into a hanging scroll.
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his mind with something…
— Samuel Johnson
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Everything yields to diligence.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Your initial instincts about investments and people are usually correct. We do a lot of due diligence in this business and most of the time…
— Alan Patricof
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We are to learn our duty from the Lord, and then we are to act in all diligence, never being lazy or slothful. The pattern…
— Henry B. Eyring
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Conversion is an enlarging, a deepening, and a broadening of the undergirding base of testimony. It is the result of revelation from God, accompanied by…
— David A. Bednar
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We magnify our priesthood and enlarge our calling when we serve with diligence and enthusiasm in those responsibilities to which we are called by proper…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
Who Wrote These Diligence Quotes
134 authors contributed a total of 186 Diligence Quotes, led by these top contributors: