Diligence Quote by Hesiod Download Open image “Diligence increaseth the fruit of toil. A dilatory man wrestles with losses.” — Hesiod ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Diligence Fruit Hard work Loss Men Toil
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He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed. — Tertullian Copy Share Image
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The highest form of success comes to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and who, out… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The labouring man that tills the fertile soil, And reaps the harvest fruit, hath not indeed The gain, but pain; and if for all… — Edward De Vere Copy Share Image
A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Critical and radical thought will only bear fruit when it is blended with the most precious quality man is endowed with - the love… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions, but when he realizes that he… — James Allen Copy Share Image
He who gives up action falls. He who gives up the reward rises. But renunciation of fruit in no way means indifference to the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Like the intricate mechanisms of the natural world, mankind's actions are not always immediately transparent in their effects. It is not the mere existence… — DON SANTO Copy Share Image
He who indulges his sense in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend. — Hesiod Copy Share Image
The best is he who calls men to the best. And those who heed the call are also blessed. But worthless who call not,… — Hesiod Copy Share Image
Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man, Inhibition, which does men great harm and great good. Inhibition attaches to poverty, boldness to… — Hesiod Copy Share Image
Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet. — Hesiod Copy Share Image
But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man. — Hesiod Copy Share Image
“It is best to work, at whatever you have a talent for doing, without turning your greedy thought toward what some other man possesses,… — Hesiod Copy Share Image
I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth… — Hesiod Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In the corporate world, if you have analysts, due diligence, and no horse sense, you've just described hell. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Building our homes as fortresses of righteousness for protection from the world takes constant labor and diligence. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image