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Last updated on April 14, 2025.
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.
Everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious.
In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.
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.
The Swiss are a neat and an industrious people, none of whom is under seventy-five years of age.
I wish I was more industrious, but I don't necessarily have that drive.
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.
Spend everyday casual, but industrious Every moment alert, but relaxed.
To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring the enjoyment; so that to be idle or industrious, vicious or virtuous, is but with a view of procrastinating the one or the other.
Equipped with cell phones, beepers, and handheld computers, the 'conspicuously industrious' blur the line between home and office by working anytime, anywhere.
True education is that which proves useful in life and makes you industrious.
I was made to work. If you are equally industrious, you will be equally successful.
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.
Opulent, civilized, and industrious nations, are greater consumers than poor ones, because they are infinitely greater producers.
The state remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.
Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle
My grandfather, as I said, was industrious. He'd had a variety of jobs and decided sometime in the 1940s that he would never work for anyone. He was also a very independent man.
My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.
The loss of...honest and industrious men's lives cannot be valued at any price.
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.
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.
I'm over-industrious, so I don't feel quite such a deviant in America as I did in England.
A virtuous and industrious people may be cheaply governed.
Purification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious.
I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.
[T]he State . . . gives idle capital the power of increase, and, through interest, rent, profit, and taxes, robs industrious labor of its products.
The lazy manage to keep up with the earth's rotation just as well as the industrious.
Success does not mean happiness: it means an unusual number of industrious enemies.
Scouts, by and large, are very industrious, very passionate and very loyal guys.
No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.
I think Jimmy Carr is very funny and probably the most industrious comedian I know and I really respect him for that.
There is something so quiet and so industrious, something so Viking about the Scots.
The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.
Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious.
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.
... an experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite often picturesque liar.
In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man.
The Chinese people are a great people; they are industrious and brave, and they never pause in pursuit of progress.
Covetousness teaches people to be cruel and crafty, industrious and evil, full of care and malice; and after all this, it is for no good to itself, for it dares not spend those heaps of treasure which it has snatched.
All companies can benefit from fostering a more flexible environment (creating a place where the most talented, industrious, and entrepreneurial people want to work) and relinquishing hierarchical control to favor a results-oriented meritocracy.
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.
Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.
An industrious sinner I much prefer to a lazy saint.
I'm a Berliner - fast, loud, obnoxious, industrious, brutally open.
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.
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.
It must be an industrious youth that provides against age; and he that fools away the one must either beg or starve in the other.
Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
You gain your point if your industrious art can make unusual words easy.
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.
Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering
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.
If thousands are thrown out of employment, it suggests that they were not well employed. Why don't they take the hint? It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
I'm industrious. Ambitious. I'm like the gay Mitt Romney... That's a terrible thing to say.
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.
Our private-sector work force is the most industrious, innovative, productive, and ambitious in the world.
I will call out the lazy, the idle, and the ignorant. I will support the hard working, the industrious, and the law.
