“Where there is diligence, there is success.” This proverb reveals the inseparable link between diligence and success.
Thomas Edison once pointed out: “Genius is ninety-nine percent sweat and one percent inspiration.”
Kuichi Kimura believed: “So-called genius figures refer to those who possess perseverance, diligence, obsession, and selflessness.”
Taylor warned: “Laziness is equivalent to burying a person alive.”
Qin Xici wrote in his poetry: “Learning is attained through diligence; by the window of fireflies, ten thousand volumes of books. Enough for the three cold months, who would laugh at an empty belly?”
Smalls stated: “The progress of a nation lies in every person working diligently and striving upward, just as the decline of a nation is due to everyone being lazy, selfish, and degenerate.”
Joseph noted: “There is no intelligence without passion, nor passion without intelligence. Without diligence, there is no combination of passion and talent.”
Liebknecht commented: “‘Genius is diligence,’ as some have said. If this is not entirely correct, it is largely correct at least.”
Tao Yuanming explained with a metaphor: “Diligent study is like a seedling in spring; you don’t see it grow, but it grows daily. Stopping study is like the whetstone of a knife; you don’t see it wear down, but it wears daily.”
Reynolds believed: “If you have great talent, diligence will make it more perfect; if your ability is average, diligence will compensate for the deficiency.”
Carlyle defined: “Genius is the ability to work diligently without limit.”
The Bible records: “The lazy hand will suffer poverty; the diligent hand will gain abundance.”
Liang Qichao analyzed: “Time is a constant, but also a variable. Diligent people have infinite possibilities; lazy people have infinite limitations.”
Guo Moruo summarized: “What is genius? I think genius is the result of diligence.”
Han Yu wrote in “Jin Xue Jie”: “Skill is refined through diligence and ruined by play; conduct is formed through thought and destroyed by complacency.”
