Samuel Johnson Diligence Quotations

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

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.

Applause abates diligence.

It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called, by the generality of mankind, a particular genius.

Diligence in employments of less consequence is the most successful introduction to greater enterprises.