Industrious Quotes

104 quotes by 89 authors

A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it goes always forward, eating its own boundaries, and, likely as not, leaves nothing in its path… — Manny Farber
Fools wait for a lucky day, but everyday is a lucky day for an industrious man. — Gautama Buddha
The homestead policy was established only after long and earnest resistance; experience proves its wisdom. The lands in the hands of industrious settlers, whose labor… — Andrew Johnson
Men who have flattered themselves into this opinion of their own abilities, look down on all who waste their lives over books, as a race… — Samuel Johnson
If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand. I am practically industrious - painstaking, a workman to execute with perseverance… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where she thought she… — Margaret Cavendish
Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with… — John Milton
Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle — Charles Spurgeon
These are the folk who may pass into the kingdom of heaven: the grief-stricken, lovers, scholars of a certain obsessive disposition. Brute beasts. Women who… — Catherynne M. Valente
You must obey this now for a Law, that he that will not worke shall not eate (except by sicknesse he be disabled:) for the… — John Smith
All government is, in its essence, organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and… — H. L. Mencken
It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they penetrate to every… — H. L. Mencken
Any reward that is worth having only comes to the industrious. The success which is made in any walk of life is measured almost exactly… — Calvin Coolidge
Every home is a house of learning either for good or otherwise. Family members may learn to be obedient, honest, industrious, self-reliant, and faithful in… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
If anyone is getting industrious trying to enturbulate [sic] or stop Scientology or its activities, I can make Captain Bligh look like a Sunday-school teacher.… — L. Ron Hubbard
Instead of recognizing the State as â€˜the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men,â€™ the run of mankind, with rare exceptions, regards it… — Albert J. Nock
An industrious sinner I much prefer to a lazy saint. — Sophie Kerr
If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or… — Benjamin Franklin
Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hopes will die fasting. There are no gains without pains. He that hath a trade hath… — Benjamin Franklin

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