You must obey this now for a Law, that he that will not worke shall not eate (except by sickness he be disabled:) for the labors of thirtie or fortie honest and industrious men shall not be consumed to maintaine an hundred and fiftie idle loyterers
- John SmithActing is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.
- William ShatnerI was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed . . . equally well.
- Johann Sebastian BachI 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'BrienIn Oklahoma City, it can be 50 degrees below zero outside. In Los Angeles, it`s 78. In Oklahoma City, it can be 110 degrees outside. In Los Angeles, it`s 78. In Oklahoma City, there are 2 million hard-working, church-going, industrious people. In Los Angeles, there`s 78.
- Argus HamiltonIn 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.
- Aly ByorickThe 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.
- Alyssa BiondoIf 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