Gautama Buddha on diligence
Gautama Buddha100 quotes“Be a lamp unto yourself. Work out your liberation with diligence.”
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Miguel de CervantesMiguel de Cervantes What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson 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.
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