Diligent Quotes

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Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason,… — Denis Diderot
Prayer doesn't just change things - it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people. — Joyce Meyer
I think there's a danger, for me at least, in retreating and going inward and depression. I have to stay diligent against that tendency. — Conor Oberst
I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And… — Laurence Olivier
For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call… — Muqtada al Sadr
Of course there is enough to stir our wonder anywhere; there's enough to love, anywhere, if one is strong enough, if one is diligent enough,… — William H. Gass
But why must everything have a practical application? I'd been such a diligent soldier for years - working, producing, never missing a deadline, taking care… — Elizabeth Gilbert
We are in a great school, and we should be diligent to learn, and continue to store up the knowledge of heaven and of earth,… — Brigham Young
True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics. — Yevgeny Zamyatin
He was a physicist, more precisely an astrophysicist, diligent and eager but without illusions: the Truth lay beyond, inaccessible to our telescopes, accessible to the… — Primo Levi
The true value of man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
When we sat down to eat I took inventory of the people in the room, and the remnants of my good mood evaporated when I… — Bret Easton Ellis
Each of us, famous or infamous, is a role model for somebody, and if we aren't, we should behave as though we are -- cheerful,… — Maya Angelou
with all prayer (Eph. 6:18)" All sorts of prayer- public, private, mental, vocal. Do not be diligent in one kind of prayer and negligent in… — John Wesley
These atheist cultures were certainly diligent in preserving the relics of their saints. — Elizabeth Kostova
There is only one safeguard against error, and that is to be established in the faith; and for that, there has to be prayerful and… — Arthur W. Pink
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what they… — John Dryden
Like men, women have to be diligent and work hard. — Zaha Hadid
Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent… — Leonardo da Vinci
Among sportsmen are the noble, the diligent and the caring, as there are the callous, the cheats and the criminals. — Harsha Bhogle

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