... an experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite often picturesque liar. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I'm over-industrious, so I don't feel quite such a deviant in America as I did in England. — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
The lazy manage to keep up with the earth's rotation just as well as the industrious. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Scouts, by and large, are very industrious, very passionate and very loyal guys. — Paul DePodesta Copy Share Image
I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Well for the drones of the social hive that there are bees of an industrious turn, willing, for an infinitesimal share of… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
Equipped with cell phones, beepers, and handheld computers, the 'conspicuously industrious' blur the line between home and office by working anytime, anywhere. — Jo Ann Davis Copy Share Image
To be thoroughly lazy is a tough job, but somebody has to do it. Industrious people build industry. Lazy people build civilization. — Kazuaki Tanahashi Copy Share Image
I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“A man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
But I think the most harmful change brought about by Victorian science in our attitude to nature lies in the demand that… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
You are now fixed at the mercy of no governor that comes to make his fortune great; you shall be governed by… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Some argued that the youth of today were poorly educated and insufficiently industrious, but one of them had sought to validate his… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man, when he gets all he can… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
The details of our struggle to survive and prosper, in what has been a difficult and sometimes bitter relationship with a system… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
Fortune has often been blamed for her blindness; but fortune is not so blind as men are. Those who look into practical… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Out of our first century of national life we evolved the ethical principle that it was not right or just that an… — Frances Perkins Copy Share Image
Without wishing to damp the ardor of curiosity or influence the freedom of inquiry, I will hazard a prediction that, after the… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
I propose a limitation be put on how many sqares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting. Now, I… — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
As Confucius once said, 'He who does nothing is the one who does nothing.'" Gabby pondered the words, the furrowed her brow.… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Every home is a house of learning either for good or otherwise. Family members may learn to be obedient, honest, industrious, self-reliant,… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained; I stand and look at… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Antiquities, or remnants of history, are, as was said, tanquam tabula naufragii: when industrious persons, by an exact and scrupulous diligence and… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Take us generally as a people, we are neither lazy nor idle; and considering how little we have to excite or stimulate… — Maria W. Stewart Copy Share Image
“Today is today, only today... tomorrow...it will only be yesterday.” — L. Curt Erler Copy Share Image
“The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious. — William Shatner Copy Share Image
Fools wait for a lucky day, but everyday is a lucky day for an industrious man. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Opulent, civilized, and industrious nations, are greater consumers than poor ones, because they are infinitely greater producers. — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
You know the Singaporean. He is a hard-working, industrious, rugged individual. Or we would not have made the grade. But let us… — Mr. Lee Copy Share Image
