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• Diligence: Careful and persistent work or effort. Oxford Dictionary
• Diligence: Constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken; persistent exertion of body or mind.  Dictionary.com
• Diligence: Steady, earnest, and energetic effort: persevering application.  Merriam Webster
• Hard work,  Effort,  Perseverance,  Laziness, Idleness,  Commitment,  Dedication

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Diligence is a great virtue to have

• Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know. Charles Kingsley
• Persevere in virtue and diligence. Plautus
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Diligence brings its own rewards

• The reward of a work is to have produced it; the reward of effort is to have grown by it. Antonin Sertillanges
• A man becomes more disciplined, patient and diligent. As a result of his diligence he gets added benefits such as peace of mind, happiness and success. Sam Veda

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Diligence is the mother of good fortune

• Care and diligence bring luck. Thomas Fuller
• Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes. Miguel de Cervantes
• Diligence is the mother of good luck. Benjamin Franklin
• Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep. Franklin, Benjamin
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Everything yields to diligence

• Everything yields to diligence. Antiphanes
• Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Samuel Johnson
• He who labours diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labour. Menander
• Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains. William Penn
• Diligence overcomes difficulties, sloth makes them. Benjamin Franklin
• By diligence and patience, the mouse bit in two the cable. Benjamin Franklin
• Diligence which, as it avails in all things, is also of the utmost moment in pleading causes. Diligence is to be particularly cultivated by us; it is to be constantly exerted; it is capable of effecting almost everything. Cicero
• Nothing is so difficult that diligence cannot master it. Malagasy Proverb

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Diligence brings wealth

• Diligence is the basis of wealth, and thrift the source of riches. Chinese Proverb
• A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence. Chinese Proverb
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Diligence bestows dignity

• Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence. Bill Hybels
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Diligence counts as much as, if not more, as inspiration

• Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution. Tony Kushner
• Amateurs look for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work. Chuck Close
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Diligently develop your skills, talents and methods

• The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. Confucius
• The fine points that are uncovered in our work as a result of close study, diligent care, constant application and always trying to improve our methods represent the best and most valuable knowledge we get in business-and the sum total of that attentive attitude is what we call skill. Wallace Stevens
• Skill,  Talent

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Diligence leads to achievement and success

• 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
• Work diligently. Work patiently and persistently. And you’re bound to be successful. Goenka
• The secret of success is constancy of purpose. Benjamin Disraeli
• It is want of diligence rather than want of means that causes most failures. Alfred Mercier
• Even if a person has few means he can perform great actions and can fulfil all his desires through hard work and diligence. Rig Veda
• The father of every good work is discontent, and its mother is diligence. Lajos Kassak
• Achievement,  Success

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Diligently focus on the process of creativity without caring too much about the results

• Creativity itself doesn’t care at all about results – the only thing it craves is the process. Learn to love the process and let whatever happens next happen, without fussing too much about it. Work like a monk, or a mule, or some other representative metaphor for diligence. Love the work. Destiny will do what it wants with you, regardless. Elizabeth Gilbert
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Practice diligently

• What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence. Samuel Johnson
• How do you best move toward mastery? To put it simply, you practice diligently, but you practice primarily for the sake of the practice itself. George Leonard
• Being diligent in your practice should not depend on your mood of the moment. Whether your meditation session is enjoyable or irritating, easy or hard, the important thing is to persevere… It is when you don’t feel like meditating that it might have the most beneficial effects, because at those times meditation is working directly against some obstacle that stands in the way of your spiritual progress. Mattieu Ricard
• The day is ending, our life is one day shorter. Let us look carefully at what we have done. Let us practice diligently, putting our whole heart into the path. Let us live deeply each moment in freedom, so time does not slip away meaninglessly.  Thich Nhat Hanh

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Be diligent in your quest for knowledge and learning

• Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. Abigail Adams
• Seek facts diligently, advice never. Philip Carret
• Some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Francis Bacon
• Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher. Japanese Proverb
• Diligence is a great teacher. Proverb
• A scholar without diligence is a lover without money. Muslih-uddin Sadi
• Knowledge,  Learning

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Combine diligence with working smart

• If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labour. Nikola Tesla
• Many people think the key to success is hard work. And that is important. Very important. But it’s more important to work smart. Tom Morris
• The combination of hard work and smart work is efficient work. Robert Half
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Choose diligence over idleness

• Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth. Proverbs 10:4
• To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. Buddha
• Prefer diligence before idleness, unless you esteem rust above brightness. Plato

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• I dropped out of school and congratulated myself for my diligence. Few realize how hard one has to work to resist the pressures of conventional success. Bauvard
• I seem to be allergic to diligence, and Lola said, Ha. What you’re allergic to is trying. Junot Díaz
• Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful. Mark Twain
• He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears but by diligent hard work he overcame them.  James Reston
• There is no movement in the golf swing so difficult that it cannot be made even more difficult by careful study and diligent practice.  Thomas Mulligan
• Every good idea sooner or later degenerates into hard work. Calvin Trillin
• Hard work: An accumulation of easy things that should have been done last week.
• Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy.  Huey Long
• Hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.
• Hard work never killed anybody but why take a chance?  Charlie McCarthy
• Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves some turn up their noses and some don’t turn up at all.  Sam Ewing
• I’m not a very good sleeper but you know what? I’m willing to put in a few extra hours every day to get better. That’s just the kind of hard worker I am.  Jarod Kintz
• I’ve heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance? Ronald Reagan
• I’ve met a few people in my time who were enthusiastic about hard work. And it was just my luck that all of them happened to be men I was working for at the time. Bill Gold
• If hard work is the key to success most people would rather pick the lock.  Claude McDonald
• If hard work were such a wonderful thing surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.  Lane Kirkland
• The reason most people do not recognize an opportunity when they meet it is because it usually goes around wearing overalls and looking like Hard Work.
• When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him, ‘whose?’ Don Marquis

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