Industrious Quotes

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Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious,… — William Graham Sumner
But I think the most harmful change brought about by Victorian science in our attitude to nature lies in the demand that our relation with… — John Fowles
No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. — Samuel Smiles
Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. — Benjamin Franklin
Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free. — Benjamin Franklin
For over forty years, in a spirit of love, members of the Church have been counseled to be thrifty and self-reliant; to avoid debt; pay… — Ezra Taft Benson
USAGE, n. The First Person of the literary Trinity, the Second and Third being Custom and Conventionality. Imbued with a decent reverence for this Holy… — Ambrose Bierce
This is what i find most encouraging about the writing trades: they allow mediocre people who are patient and industrious to revise their stupidity, to… — Kurt Vonnegut
It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the… — Oscar Wilde
The seed of God is in us. If the seed had a good, wise and industrious cultivator, it would thrive all the more and grow… — Meister Eckhart
Each day, it seemed, another law was passed to impoverish and diminish them, punishing them for whatever success they achieved and rewarding their less competent… — L. Neil Smith
You've been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-'fess up! With your great experience,… — Sinclair Lewis
Women who are confident of their abilities are more likely to succeed than those who lack confidence, even though the latter may be much more… — Joyce Brothers
The details of our struggle to survive and prosper, in what has been a difficult and sometimes bitter relationship with a system of laws and… — August Wilson
Spend everyday casual, but industrious Every moment alert, but relaxed. — Guy Finley
All companies can benefit from fostering a more flexible environment (creating a place where the most talented, industrious, and entrepreneurial people want to work) and… — Maynard Webb
Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy. — Miguel de Cervantes
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble and… — H. L. Mencken
The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty. — Brenda Ueland
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

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