Industrious Quote by Benjamin Franklin Download Open image “A virtuous and industrious people may be cheaply governed.” — Benjamin Franklin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Industrious May People Virtuous
A well governed people are generally a people who do not think much. — Andre Siegfried Copy Share Image
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed atall. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton Copy Share Image
A foolish ruler, a weak child, and a person mad after riches, desire that which can not be procured. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Economies are complex beasts that need people to do an extraordinary range of tasks. — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
As recognized since ancient times, the coexistence of very rich and very poor leads to two possibilities, neither a happy one. The rich can… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
“A free nation of good willed and hardworking people will be better developed than a nation of lazy people with good will but are… — Topsy Gift Copy Share Image
“No natural forces determine income, wealth, and the quality of human life. We make the decisions about who will prosper and who will not—or… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Nature, being a wise and provident lady, governs her parts very wisely, methodically, and orderly: Also, she is very industrious and hates to be… — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I would like, then, to end by putting in a good word for the non-industrious poor. At least they aren’t hurting anyone. Insofar as… — David Graeber 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
There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease… — H. M. Tomlinson 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 man. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things — not merely… — John Ruskin 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 honest and… — Frances Perkins 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
An absolute monarch, who is rich without patrimony, may be charitable without merit; and Constantine too easily believed that he should purchase the favour… — Edward Gibbon 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 life will… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
