If you do tomorrow what you did today , you will get tomorrow what you got today
Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them.
There is no little enemy
Speak little, do much.
And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together to repel them?
Without industry and frugality, nothing will do; with them, everything.