Diligence Quotes
Mwai Kibaki (2003). “Building a working nation: speeches by H.E. President Mwai Kibaki : December 2002 - July 2003”
Trevor J. Fairbrother, Chiyo Ishikawa, Leonardo (Da Vinci.) (1997). “Leonardo Lives: The Codex Leicester and Leonardo Da Vinci's Legacy of Art and Science : [catalog of an Exhibition Held at the Seattle Art Museum, October 23, 1997, to January 4, 1998]”, University of Washington Press
Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.43, Courier Corporation
Work is doing it. Discipline is doing it every day. Diligence is doing it well every day.
Dave Ramsey (1999). “More than Enough: The Ten Keys to Changing Your Financial Destiny”, p.105, Penguin
Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful.
Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “Great Speeches”, p.80, Courier Corporation
I know of no such thing as genius, genius is nothing but labor and diligence.
"The Works of William Hogarth: Including the Analysis of Beauty and Five Days' Peregrination".
Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc”, p.197
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.167, A&C Black
I believe verbal felicity is the fruit of ardor, of diligence, and of refusing to be false.
Marianne Moore, Patricia C. Willis (1986). “The complete prose of Marianne Moore”, Viking Pr
Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.
Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.249
Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell (1804). “The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd”, p.180
Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.1770, Delphi Classics