(245 quotes found)
“Be a lamp unto yourself. Work out your liberation with diligence.”
Buddha
“Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful”
Mark Twain
“Decay is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.”
“Diligence overcomes difficulties, sloth makes them.”
Benjamin Franklin
“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
“The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.”
Confucius
“Diligence is the mother of good luck”
“What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.”
Samuel Johnson
“I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.”
Charles Dickens