Industrious Quotes

Industrious Quote of the day

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

Fools wait for a lucky day, but everyday is a lucky day for an industrious man.

The loss of...honest and industrious men's lives cannot be valued at any price.

I was made to work. If you are equally industrious, you will be equally successful.

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.

The state remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.

To be thoroughly lazy is a tough job, but somebody has to do it. Industrious people build industry. Lazy people build civilization.

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 well-disposed man.

Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle

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 by the amount of hard work that is put into it.

Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free.

True education is that which proves useful in life and makes you industrious.

An industrious sinner I much prefer to a lazy saint.

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 pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.

Everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious.

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.

The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.

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 and become stargazers.

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 to recapture that heightened awareness.

Opulent, civilized, and industrious nations, are greater consumers than poor ones, because they are infinitely greater producers.

To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.

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 and industrious neighbors.

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 me is that I have not pretended to what I was not.

We live in the age of the overworked and the undereducated.

Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.

Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

[T]he State . . . gives idle capital the power of increase, and, through interest, rent, profit, and taxes, robs industrious labor of its products.

My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.

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, and prosperous society.

The lazy manage to keep up with the earth's rotation just as well as the industrious.

... an experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite often picturesque liar.

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 his industrious crew to build in hell.

Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it.

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 could help.

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 competent and talented and industrious.

Success does not mean happiness: it means an unusual number of industrious enemies.

Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.

Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.

Purification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious.

The Swiss are a neat and an industrious people, none of whom is under seventy-five years of age.

For Dostoevsky, Fourier is one of the industrious ant-hill engineers, busy, protected by the delusion that his goal, the will-ordered society, is the summation of all his desires.

Well for the drones of the social hive that there are bees of an industrious turn, willing, for an infinitesimal share of the honey, to undertake the labor of its fabrication.

You gain your point if your industrious art can make unusual words easy.

I believe in Providence and I believe Providence to be just. Therefore I believe that Providence always rewards the strong, the industrious, and the upright.

But I do not remember ever having seen a newspaper in the house; and, most certainly, that privation did not render us less industrious, happy, or free.

Spend everyday casual, but industrious Every moment alert, but relaxed.

A virtuous and industrious people may be cheaply governed.

You know the Singaporean. He is a hard-working, industrious, rugged individual. Or we would not have made the grade. But let us also recognise that he is a champion grumbler.

Men are not really born either hopelessly idle, or preternaturally industrious. They may move in one direction or the other as will or circumstances dictate, but it is open to any man to work.

Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious.