Quotes with industrious

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• Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.

  Benjamin Franklin
  American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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• Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.

  Horace
  Roman poet
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• Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.

  Oscar Wilde
  Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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• 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.

  John Milton
  English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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• The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.

  Brenda Ueland
  American journalist, editor, and teacher
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• 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.

  Benjamin Haydon
  British artist (1786 - 1846)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• procrastinating
• procrastinate
• overworked
• absolutely
• forthright
• to-morrow

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