Diligent Quote by Jeffrey Wright

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

— Samuel Johnson

We pass our values, ideas and moral character on to our children, but we do that knowing that our children are going to revise…

— Alison Gopnik

Most parents have long understood that kids don't have the judgment, the maturity, the impulse control and insight necessary to make complicated lifelong decisions.

— Bryan Stevenson

“Modern society has created a giant apparatus for the cultivation of the hard skills, while failing to develop the moral and emotional faculties down…

— David Brooks

Any child can be taught to be beautifully behaved with no effort greater than quiet patience and perseverance, whereas to break bad habits once…

— Emily Post

“But if you believe that adults can ‘make’ children learn well—in the absence of or in defiance of a child’s inner sense of confident…

— Kirsten Olson

Basically, I've always raised my kids that people learn from their mistakes, and every father wants their kids to be better than them.

— Prodigy

Parents can only do what they think is best, with the experience they have. The learning curve for every parent is that there's a…

— Matt Haig

What I continue to learn as a parent is to be mindful of the fact that I am responsible for being the parent that…

— Laurence Fishburne

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

— Irving Stone

My parents told me they knew they made lots of mistakes raising us, but that they did their best. Most parents will say something…

— Torill Kove

“Much of life, fatherhood included, is the story of knowledge acquired too late: if only I’d known then what I know now, how much…

— Ben Fountain