Industrious Quotes

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. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
Henry David Thoreau

Love, Time, Before

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

Sad, Happy, Busy

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

Writing, Lazy, Acting

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 another.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Happiness, Happy, Another

I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.
Johann Sebastian Bach

Succeed, Whoever, Equally

An industrious sinner I much prefer to a lazy saint.
Sophie Kerr

Lazy, Sinner, Saint

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

Education, Read, Barely

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.
Maria Mitchell

Life, Best, Said

In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.
Paul Getty

Nature, Japan, Japanese

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.
William Graham Sumner

Great, Society, Around

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.
Edna O'Brien

Time, Trying, Alive

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.
Margaret Cavendish

Mother, Help, Thought

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

Thinking, Act, Tragedy

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

Computers, Home, Working

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