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Diligence is the earnest, conscientious application of our energy to accomplish what we’ve undertaken. When we are diligent, we pay careful attention to detail and are dedicated to achieving quality results.


Diligence means that we are continually working toward our goals, making use of what resources and opportunities are available. We are vigilant to avoid errors and to stay focused on the task at hand. Our diligence provides a basis for people trusting us with jobs that are tricky or complicated and also important to them. Diligence does not rely on talent, but employs commitment, industry, and perseverance to transform vision into reality.

Diligence

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Acceptance - Accuracy - Balance - Diligence - Ethics - Common Sense
My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there’s hardly any difference.

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Contribution #4241


Assertiveness - Commitment - Courage - Diligence - Grace - Vision
Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.

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Contribution #4225


Acceptance - Accuracy - Balance - Diligence - Discernment - Common Sense
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.

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Acceptance - Accuracy - Balance - Diligence - Discernment - Common Sense
A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.

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Wordsmith
Lewis H. Lapham, editor and writer (1935- )
"A.Word.A.Day"
http://wordsmith.org/
Viewed on June 29, 2010
Contribution #4209


Diligence
There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgment as doth anger

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Acceptance - Balance - Diligence - Discernment - Ethics - Common Sense
The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.

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Wordsmith
George Marshall, US Army Chief, Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, Nobel laureate (1880-1959)
"A.Word.A.Day"
Viewed on May 11, 2010
Contribution #4027


Diligence - Discernment - Ethics - Insight - Common Sense - Honesty
When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.

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Wordsmith
Anais Nin, writer (1903-1977)
"A.Word.A.Day"
http://wordsmith.org/
Viewed on April 26, 2010
Contribution #3941


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

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Adaptability - Commitment - Confidence - Determination - Diligence - Grace
Determination declares whatever is required or demanded will be satisfied to the effect the desired result become a possessed property achieved through the force thereof.

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Integrated Gospel Perceptions http://
Contribution #3848


Caring - Compassion - Diligence - Action - Grace
Do not take lightly small good deeds,
Believing they can hardly help.
For drops of water, one by one,
In time can fill a giant pot.

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Lotsawa House
Patrul Rinpoche
http://www.lotsawahouse.org/patrul/brightly_shining_sun.html
Viewed on January 4, 2010
Contribution #3722


Competence - Diligence - Faith - Industry
There is no substitute for hard work. God rewards your faithfulness. Whatever you do, do it well.

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Told to Rev. Dr. Samuel B. McKinney
Contribution #3655


Competence - Diligence - Excellence
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

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Diligence - Mindfulness - Virtue
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

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Adaptability - Aspiration - Determination - Diligence - Initiative
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life... as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

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Booker T. Washington
http://thinkexist.com/quotation/success_is_to_be_measured_not_so_much_by_the/8666.html
Viewed on July 16, 2009
Contribution #3412


Contentment - Diligence - Common Sense
Trust in Allah and tie up your camel.

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Balance - Competence - Diligence - Knowledge - Truth-seeking - Creating Beauty
A good gardener starts as a good weeder.

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Contribution #2880


Diligence - Industry
He also who is slack in his work is brother to him who destroys.

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Source type: Sacred Text
Bible
Proverbs 18:9
Version or Translation NASV
http://
Contribution #2336


Diligence - Industry
Genius is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

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Diligence - Discernment - Curiosity
You see but you do not observe.

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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
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Contribution #2115


Accuracy - Diligence - Humility - Truth-seeking
Thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.

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The Prophet
Page 60
Published by Alfred A. Knopf , New York , 1992
http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~pvk/literature/gibran/gibran20.html
Contribution #1842


Diligence
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

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Contribution #1138


Diligence - Excellence - Responsibility
Every job is a portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence.

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

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Confucius
http://www.answers.com/topic/confucius
Viewed on April 21, 2008
Contribution #947


Diligence
Diligence is the mother of good luck.

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Benjamin Franklin
http://www.answers.com/topic/benjamin-franklin
Viewed on April 21, 2008
Contribution #946


Courage - Diligence - Persistence
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

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John Quincy Adams
http://www.answers.com/topic/john-quincy-adams
Viewed on April 18, 2008
Contribution #921


Diligence - Patience
See your road through.

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http://
Contribution #511


Acceptance - Diligence - Knowledge - Self-Discipline
When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

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Dalai Lama
Viewed on April 3, 2008
Contribution #321


Determination - Diligence - Industry
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

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Vince Lombardi
Viewed on March 31, 2008
Contribution #130