#diligence

It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may be done, I know from experience. God has given us, in a measure, the power to make our own fate: and when our energies seem to demand a sustenance they cannot get--when our will strains after a path we may not follow--we need neither starve from inanition, not stand still in despair: we have but to seek another nourishment for the mind, as strong as the forbidden fruit it longed to taste--and perhaps purer; and to hew out for the adventurous foot a road as direct and broad as the one Fortune has blocked up against us, if rougher than it. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#difficulty #diligence #perseverance #experience

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

— Chuck Close

#inspiration #inspirational

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains. ↗

— William Penn

#diligence #faith #like #mountains #remove

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#ease #life

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

The year you were born marks only your entry into the world. Other years where you prove your worth, they are the ones worth celebrating. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#accomplishment #achieve #achievement #birth #birthday

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

— Martin Luther

#judgement #time #judgement

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. ↗

— Confucius

#diligence #expectations #first #his #life

Every citizen who stops smoking, or loses a few pounds, or starts managing his chronic disease with real diligence, is caulking a crack for the benefit of us all. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#chronic #citizen #crack #diligence #disease

These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes, while on the other hand too much effort and diligence sometimes saps the vitality and powers of those who never know when to leave off. ↗

— Giorgio Vasari

#born #diligence #effort #express #few