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Quotes About Industrious

True education is that which proves useful in life and makes you industrious.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Our private-sector work force is the most industrious, innovative, productive, and ambitious in the world.
~ Elaine Chao
all cooperative schemes which provide equal remuneration to the skilled and industrious and the ignorant and idle must work their own downfall, For by this unjust plan they must of necessity eliminate the valuable members and retain only the improvident, unskilled and vicious.
~ Robert Dale Owen
Trustworthy, industrious, faithful, charitable, strong, wise, cautious, compassionate, generous, kind ... that's the scriptural definition of a good wife - a creative counterpart. A creative counterpart is a woman, who, having chosen the vocation of wife and mother, decides to learn and grow in all of areas of this role and work as though she were aiming for the presidency of a corporation.
~ Linda Dillow
Indifference is a form of sloth. For one can work hard, as I've always done, and yet wallow in sloth; be industrious about one's job, but scandalously lazy about all that isn't the job. Because, of course, the job is fun. Whereas the non-job---personal relations, in my case---is disagreeable and laborious.
~ Aldous Huxley
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
He gave it to the use of the Industrious and Rational, (and Labour was to be his Title to it)." People
~ Jill Lepore
My mother and my father have been married 50 years, and he's just started to understand that something's wrong with the system. He accepted the whole thing, you see. Yet this industrious kind of engagement didn't bring him the success, according to American terms, that he wanted. I was probably affected by this very much. In fact, I know I was.
~ Huey Newton
I'm industrious. Ambitious. I'm like the gay Mitt Romney... That's a terrible thing to say.
~ Dustin Lance Black
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.
~ H. M. Tomlinson
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.
~ L. Neil Smith
I always find something to keep me busy.
~ Amy Sedaris
No hay en toda la Tierra gente más aficionada al trabajo que los catalanes. Si supieran hacer algo, se harían los amos del mundo.
~ Eduardo Mendoza
They want the working classes, laborers. Boys who aren't stamped by"—Herr Siedler frowns—"middle-class garbage. The cinemas and so forth. They want industrious boys. Exceptional boys." "Yes, sir.
~ Anthony Doerr
The Chinese people are a great people; they are industrious and brave, and they never pause in pursuit of progress.
~ Xi Jinping
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
~ Franz Kafka
There is something so quiet and so industrious, something so Viking about the Scots.
~ Joanna Lumley
He might not be very tall, but he's very useful. Kante wins balls, has great transition play, can be found everywhere, and always has solutions.
~ Didier Deschamps
Dispense with the doctor by being temperate; the lawyer by keeping out of debt; the demagogue, by voting for honest men; and poverty, by being industrious.
~ Marden Orison Swett
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
love of independence and property, the most steady and industrious of all human appetites." Commercial society supplies that "love of independence" in abundance.
~ Arthur Herman
His woolly grey hair, short thick body, air of perpetual busyness, suggested an industrious gnome conscripted into the service of the army; a gnome who also liked to practise considerable malice against the race of men with whom he mingled, by making as complicated as possible every transaction they had to execute through himself.
~ Anthony Powell
Though writing in 1917, Mann was reflecting 1914, the year that was to be the German 1789, the establishment of the German idea in history, the enthronement of Kultur, the fulfillment of Germany's historic mission. In August, sitting at a café in Aachen, a German scientist said to the American journalist Irwin Cobb: "We Germans are the most industrious, the most earnest, the best educated race in Europe.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
I am a hard-working entrepreneur.
~ Jovenel Moise