hard work gets one nowhere, one's efforts come to nothing (see Molina, who gives this example in the first person singular)
Orthographic Variants:
atle nonquiça
Alonso de Molina:
atle nonquiza (pret. atle ononquiz.) no me aprouechar mis diligencias. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 8v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.