Diligence
The quality of being diligent; carefulness; careful attention; -- the opposite of negligence.
Interested and persevering application; devoted and painstaking effort to accomplish what is undertaken; assiduity in service.
Process by which persons, lands, or effects are seized for debt; process for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or the production of writings.
A four-wheeled public stagecoach, used in France.
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Diligence Quotations
Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.
Buddha
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.
Benjamin Franklin
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
Persevere in virtue and diligence.
Plautus
Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
William Penn
I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
John Donne
Care and diligence bring luck.
Thomas Fuller
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Samuel Johnson
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Samuel Johnson
Diligence Translations
diligence in Latin is diligentia
diligence in Norwegian is flid
diligence in Swedish is arbetsamhet, flit
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