Industrious Quotes
104 quotes by 89 authors
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I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
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More than any other nation on Earth, America has constantly drawn strength and spirit from wave after wave of immigrants. In each generation, they have…
— William J. Clinton
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Strangers are welcome because there is room enough for them all, and therefore the old Inhabitants are not jealous of them; the Laws protect them…
— Benjamin Franklin
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To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring the enjoyment; so that to…
— Benjamin Haydon
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Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
— Horace
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Out of our first century of national life we evolved the ethical principle that it was not right or just that an honest and industrious…
— Frances Perkins
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Truly, this earth is a trophy cup for the industrious man. And this rightly so, in the service of natural selection. He who does not…
— Adolf Hitler
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There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work…
— H. M. Tomlinson
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I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.
— Thomas Jefferson
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The sober people of America are weary of the fluctuating policy which has directed the public councils. They have seen with regret and indignation that…
— James Madison
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The true end of education is not only to make the young learned, but to make them love learning; not only to make them industrious,…
— John Ruskin
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What must never be lost sight of is that a public functionary, in his capacity as functionary, produces absolutely nothing; that, on the contrary, he…
— Charles Dunoyer
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Greediness consists in ravishing the goods of another through violence or cunning, as in the two noble professions of the conqueror and courtier. But the…
— Augustin Thierry
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Success does not mean happiness: it means an unusual number of industrious enemies.
— E. W. Howe
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By multiplying the means of gratification, by promoting the introduction and circulation of the precious metals, those darling objects of human avarice and enterprise, it…
— Alexander Hamilton
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I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying…
— Edna O'Brien
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We are all animals of this planet. We are all creatures. And nonhuman animals experience pain sensations just like we do. They too are strong,…
— Joaquin Phoenix
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I propose a limitation be put on how many sqares [sic] of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting. Now, I don't want…
— Sheryl Crow
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Life does not require us to be consistent, cruel, patient, helpful, angry, rational, thoughtless, loving, rash, open-minded, neurotic, careful, rigid, tolerant, wasteful, rich, downtrodden, gentle,…
— Richard Bach
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Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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