When a person is wholeheartedly committed to doing something well, success is ultimately inevitable. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Genius lies in accumulation; intelligence lies in diligence. — Hua Luogeng
Opportunities are useless to the lazy, but diligence can turn the most ordinary chances into great opportunities. — Martin Luther
Genius is ninety-nine percent sweat plus one percent inspiration. — Thomas Edison
Do you wish to be a happy person? Then you must first learn to endure hardship. — Ivan Turgenev
What we call a genius is simply a person of perseverance, diligence, obsession, and self-forgetfulness. — Shuko Kimura
Blind, one-sided diligence can indeed create wealth and glory, but many noble and elegant qualities are simultaneously stripped away by this very virtue that creates such wealth and glory. — Friedrich Nietzsche
A lazy person who refuses to act, no matter how generous fate may be, is like the most diligent potter who lacks a wheel; they cannot shape a vessel. Even if fate adorns them with lavish colors and gold rims, they remain a defective lump, unworthy of being a plate. No, they are merely an irregular, clumsily molded, crooked, twisted, uneven, and unshapely lump—though glazed on the outside, a disgrace to vessels! May the lazy reflect deeply on this. — Thomas Carlyle
Where is genius? I have devoted the time others spend drinking coffee to my studies. — Lu Xun
Once ability is dominated by laziness, it becomes utterly useless. — Ivan Krylov
Only the poor can be truly independent. Even the wealthiest millionaires lack true independence. A person who possesses only one ruble is the slave of that ruble. — Stefan Żeromski (Lemont)
People who possess perseverance, diligence, and selfless devotion to work. Honesty and diligence should be your eternal companions. — Benjamin Franklin
Genius is the capacity for endless hard work and diligence. — Thomas Carlyle
Invention is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. — Thomas Edison
