Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
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Actually from Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Don Quixote, Part I, Book IV, ch. 19.Benjamin Disraeli
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It is a common proverb, beauteous princess, that diligence is the mother of good fortune.
Miguel de Cervantes
Moreover, a true Christian will not ascribe any prosperity to his own diligence, industry, or good fortune, but he will acknowledge that God is the author of it.
John Calvin
The father of every good work is discontent, and its mother is diligence.
Lajos Kassak
I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.
Sophocles
If fortune makes a wicked man prosperous and a good man poor, there is no need to wonder. For the wicked regard wealth as everything, the good as nothing. And the good fortune of the bad cannot take away their badness, while virtue alone will be enough for the good.
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