A diligent scholar, and the master's paid. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The substance of a diligent man is precious. [ Bible ]
Like clocks, one wheel another on must drive,
Affairs by diligent labors only thrive. [ Chapman ]
An honest and diligent servant is an humble friend. [ Proverb ]
It is the diligent hand and head alone that maketh rich. [ Smiles ]
To be rich be diligent; move on
Like heavens great movers that enrich the earth;
Whose moment's sloth would show the world undone;
And make the spring straight bury all her birth.
Rich are the diligent who can command Time - nature's stock. [ Davenant ]
Servants will not be diligent where the master is negligent. [ Proverb ]
The man who is earnest and diligent is prepared for all things. [ Thomas à Kempis ]
Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings. [ Bible ]
In all affairs thou undertakest, a diligent preparation should be made. [ Cicero ]
A day of grace is as a day in harvest; one must be diligent as soon as it is ripe. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand; but the hand of the diligent maketh rich. [ Bible ]
By diligent and laborious examination of things past, we may easily foresee things to come. [ King ]
Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain; the lazy man never. [ Ben. Franklin ]
We must be diligent in our particular calling and charge, in that province and station which God has appointed us, whatever it be. [ Tillotson ]
Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation. [ Plutarch ]