best quotations about
Diligence |
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Quotations
 | Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. — Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, American President 5 likes |
 | A small task if it be really daily will beat the efforts of a spasmodic Hercules. — Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, English philosopher 5 likes |
 | Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 4 likes |
 | Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it. — Quintilian, 35-96 AD, Roman rhetorician 4 likes |
 | What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 3 likes |
 | It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. — Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930, British writer 3 likes |
| Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 2 likes |
 | If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it. — Philip Sidney, 1554-1586, English poet & courtier 2 likes |
 | Caress the detail, the divine detail. — Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Russian-American writer 2 likes |
 | Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it. — Cardinal Richelieu, 1585-1642, French cardinal & Prime minister 1 likes |
 | In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision. |
| In politics, as in every other sphere of life, there are two important principles for a man of any sense: don’t cherish too many illusions, and never stop believing that every little bit helps. |
 | Diligence removes impossibilities. |
 | Start all over again and this time, concentrate. — Gertrude Stein, 1874-1946, American writer (to a young Ernest Hemingway) |
 | There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man —but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point. |
 | The breath of the mind is attention. |
 | Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves. |
 | Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth. — Bernard Baruch, 1870-1965, American businessman & statesman |
 | You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences. |
 | I turn sentences around. That’s my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and turn it around again… |
 | If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves. |
Latin Quotes
 | Written orders, always. Semper letteris mandate. 15 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | Look beneath the surface; let not the inherent quality of a thing nor its worth escape you. Έσω βλέπε· μηδενός πράγματος μήτε η ιδία ποιότης μήτε η αξία παρατρεχέτω σε. — Marcus Aurelius, 121-180 AD, Roman Emperor ‐ Meditations VI, 3 6 likes |
 | Nothing depends on luck, but all on good judgment and diligence. Μηδέν της τύχης, αλλά πάντα της ευβουλίας και της προνοίας. — Plutarch, 47-120 AD, Ancient Greek historian 5 likes |
 | We can get on top of everything by diligence. Τη επιμελεία πάντα δούλα γίγνεται. — Antiphanes, 405-335 BC, Ancient comic poet 3 likes |
 | Everything is achievable through diligence and effort. Αλωτά γίγνεται επιμελεία και πόνω άπαντα. — Menander, 4th cent. BC, Ancient Greek dramatist (New Comedy) 3 likes |
| Difficulties are overcome with diligence. Τα χαλεπά ταις επιμελείαις αλίσκεται. — Plutarch, 47-120 AD, Ancient Greek historian 3 likes |
