Industrious Quotes

104 quotes by 87 authors

England was killed by an idea: the idea that the weak, indolent and profligate must be supported by the strong, industrious, and frugal â€“ to… — Dan Smoot
The human species is often amazingly inventive and industrious but at the same time profoundly lazy. It's very clear that we humans don't like to… — Charles Petzold
The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious… — C.S. Lewis
The state remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men. — H. L. Mencken
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
The whole strenuous intellectual work of an industrious research worker would appear, after all, in vain and hopeless, if he were not occasionally through some… — Max Planck
I am excessively slothful, and wonderfully industrious-by fits. There are epochs when any kind of mental exercise is torture, and when nothing yields me pleasure… — Edgar Allan Poe
The best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious and the best that can be said of… — Maria Mitchell
... an experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite often picturesque liar. — Mark Twain
Not far from here, by a white sun, behind a green star, lived the Steelypips, illustrious, industrious, and they hadn't a care: no spats in… — Stanislaw Lem
Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious. — William Shatner
My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal. — Clarence Thomas
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer.… — Henry David Thoreau
When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man, when he gets all he can and saves all… — John Wesley
I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained; I stand and look at them long and… — Walt Whitman
Some argued that the youth of today were poorly educated and insufficiently industrious, but one of them had sought to validate his generation by spending… — Dean Koontz
Contrary to popular opinion, my dad was not a lazy man. He was not lazy at all, for instance, when it came to Going Places… — Haven Kimmel
Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you… — Benjamin Franklin
Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Swiss are a neat and an industrious people, none of whom is under seventy-five years of age. — Dorothy Parker

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