#diligence

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence. ↗

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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

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The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance. ↗

— Venus Williams

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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

#dropout #funny #hard-work #humor #school

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful!' and sitting in the shade. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#gardens #work #beauty

We always hope for the easy fix: the one simple change that will erase a problem in a stroke. But few things in life work this way. Instead, success requires making a hundred small steps go right - one after the other, no slipups, no goofs, everyone pitching in. ↗

— Atul Gawande

#problem-solving #change

Amateurs look for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work. ↗

— Chuck Close

#inspiration #inspirational

The reward of a work is to have produced it; the reward of effort is to have grown by it. ↗

— Antonin Sertillanges

#effort #grow #reward #work #life

There are two days in my calendar: This day and that Day. ↗

— Martin Luther

#judgement #time #judgement

Diligence is the mother of good luck. ↗