Quotes About Industrious

I've always been a fan of blue-collar players. I've never liked the glitzy, glamour guys. You can say I'm not a Kobe Bryant fan, at all.

Nancy was more impulsive than industrious, more generous than wise, more plucky than prudent; she had none too much perseverance and no patience at all.

Love is industrious in tormenting itself.

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 amout of hard work that is put into it.

The tradition of industrious women is fundamental in my country, where sloth is a male privilege. It is forgivable in men, just as alcoholism is tolerated among them, because it is assumed that these are unavoidable biological characteristics: if you're born that way, you're born that way. . . . That isn't true of women, you understand.

If you aren't rich, you should always look useful.

How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower.

In 1864, two years after the Homestead Act passed, he advocated taking the plantation owners' land as well and distributing it to "free, industrious, and honest farmers,

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

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.

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

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

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

Love is an industrious affection; it sets the head studying for God, hands working, feet running in the ways of his commandments.

I'm a Berliner - fast, loud, obnoxious, industrious, brutally open.

As Franklin repeatedly stressed in his letters to his son, America should not replicate the rigid ruling hierarchies of the Old World, the aristocratic structures and feudal social orders based on birth rather than merit. Instead, its strength would be its creation of a proud middling people, a class of frugal and industrious shopkeepers and tradesmen who were assertive of their rights and proud of their status.

Senators undertake to disturb us... by reminding us of the possibility of large numbers swarming from China; but the answer to all this is very obvious and very simple. If the Chinese come here, they will come for citizenship or merely for labor. If they come for citizenship, then in this desire do they give a pledge of loyalty to our institutions; and where is the peril in such vows? They are peaceful and industrious; how can their citizenship be the occasion of solicitude?

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.

the Norwegians of Chicago were widely regarded as a frugal, industrious, and upstanding people, who enhanced the moral character of the metropolis.

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 In His Truck. He was also very industrious about Preparing To Go Camping. And if something really interested him, he would work on it all day.

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

I'm not a genius. I'm just a hard-working guy.

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.

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