Plautus and Diligence

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

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

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

Menander of Athens
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

Benjamin Franklin
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Attend with Diligence and strict Integrity to the Interest of your Correspondents and enter into no Engagements which you have not the almost certain Means of performing.
George Mason

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
Charles Kingsley

Care and diligence bring luck.
Thomas Fuller

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.
Buddha

Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.
Bill Hybels

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
Miguel de Cervantes

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
Benjamin Disraeli

Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Benjamin Franklin

Every citizen who stops smoking, or loses a few pounds, or starts managing his chronic disease with real diligence, is caulking a crack for the benefit of us all.
Mitch Daniels

Everything yields to diligence.
Antiphanes

Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance and strict diligence observed in the duty of