Diligence is the mother of good luck.
“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”
“But I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless.”
“Diligence overcomes difficulties, sloth makes them.”
“Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture.”
“That is just it, work is my element; I was born and made for it. I have found the limits of my legs; I have found the limits of my eyes; but I have never been able to find the limits of my labour.”
“You may delay, but time will not.”
“Time enough always proves little enough.”
“Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.”
“Be always ashamed to catch thyself idle.”
“Well done is twice done.”
“I have no luck anymore. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”
“If you have time don’t wait for time.”
“Laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.”
“He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business by night.”
“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
“Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.”
“Bond didn’t defend the practice. He simply maintained that the more effort and ingenuity you put into gambling, the more you took out.”
“He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession.”
“The cat in gloves catches no mice.”
“For want of a nail the shoe is lost; for want of a shoe, the horse is lost; for want of a horse the rider is lost.”
“A life of leisure, and a life of laziness, are two things.”
“Sloth (like rust) consumes faster than labor wears. The used key is always bright.”
“All things are easy to industry, all things difficult to sloth.”
“Have you something to do tomorrow; do it today.”
“No man ever was glorious who was not laborious.”
“Never leave till tomorrow what you can do today.”
“Haste makes waste.”
“No gains without pains.”
“The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not.”
“One today is worth two tomorrows.”
“Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough.”
“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
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