Industry need not wish. [ Benjamin Franklin ]
Necessity sharpens industry. [ Proverb ]
Want is the mother of industry. [ Proverb ]
Idleness always envies industry. [ Proverb ]
God gives all things to industry. [ Proverb ]
In every rank, or great or small,
It is industry supports us all. [ Gay ]
Nothing is impossible to industry. [ Periander of Corinth ]
The laborer is worthy of his hire. [ Bible ]
Plough deep while sluggards sleep. [ Franklin ]
Hell itself must yield to industry. [ Ben Jonson ]
Diligence is the mother of good luck. [ Franklin ]
Keep your working power at its maximum. [ W. R. Alger ]
Nothing is denied to well-directed labor. [ Sir Joshua Reynolds ]
The sweat of industry would dry, and die,
But for the end it works to. [ William Shakespeare ]
Experience is by industry achieved,
And perfected by the swift course of time. [ William Shakespeare, Two Gentleman of Verona ]
What cannot art and industry perform,
When science plans the progress of their toil! [ Beattie ]
The crackling embers on the hearth are dead;
The indoor note of industry is still;
The latch is fast; upon the window-sill
The small birds wait not for their daily bread;
The voiceless flowers - how quietly they shed
Their nightly odours; - and the household rill
Murmurs continuous dulcet sounds that fill
The vacant expectation, and the dread
Of listening night. [ Hartley Coleridge ]
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. [ Johnson ]
One loses all the time which he can employ better. [ Rousseau ]
Great industry and little conscience make one rich. [ German Proverb ]
Genius begins great works, labor alone finishes them. [ Joubert ]
Industry is Fortune's right hand, and frugality her left. [ Proverb ]
The end of labor is to gain leisure. It is a great saying. [ Aristotle ]
One who lives by persevering fraud (a knight of industry). [ French ]
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy. [ Benjamin Franklin ]
Industry will never do much, unless there be natural parts also. [ Proverb ]
In every rank, or great or small, 'Tis industry supports us all. [ Gay ]
The bee from her industry in the summer eats honey all the winter. [ Proverb ]
Idleness wastes a fortune in half the time that industry makes it. [ Smiles ]
The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. [ Hume ]
They left a great deal for the industry and sagacity of after ages. [ Locke ]
Time, patience, and industry are the three great masters of the world. [ Proverb ]
Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings. [ Bible ]
Industry has annexed thereto the fairest fruits and the richest rewards. [ Barrow ]
Little shame, little conscience, and much industry, will make a man rich. [ Proverb ]
Youth is eminently the fittest season for establishing habits of industry. [ Dr. Farr ]
Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. [ Franklin ]
Change of fashions is the tax which industry imposes on the vanity of the rich. [ Chamfort ]
We mistake the gratuitous blessings of heaven for the fruits of our own industry. [ L'Estrange ]
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. [ Hazlitt ]
In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on. [ Pythagoras ]
That man is but of the lower part of the world that is not brought up to business and affairs. [ Feltham ]
Truth is never learned, in any department of industry, by arguing, but by working and observing. [ John Ruskin ]
The change of fashions is the tax that the industry of the poor levies on the vanity of the rich. [ Chamfort ]
The Golden Rule Of Three.
Three things to be - pure, just and honest.
Three things to govern - temper, tongue and conduct.
Three things to live - courage, affection and gentleness.
Three things to love - the wise, the virtuous and the innocent.
Three things to commend - thrift, industry and promptness.
Three things about which to think - life, death and eternity.
Three things to despise - cruelty, arrogance and ingratitude.
Three things to admire - dignity, gracefulness and intellectual power.
Three things to cherish - the true, the beautiful and the good.
Three things for which to wish - health, friends and contentment.
Three things for which to fight - honor, home and country.
Three things to attain - goodness of heart, integrity of purpose and cheerfulness of disposition.
Three things to give - alms to the needy, comfort to the sad and appreciation to the worthy.
Three things to desire - the blessing of God, an approving conscience and the fellowship of the good.
Three things for which to work - a trained mind, a skilled hand and a regulated heart.
Three things for which to hope - a haven of peace, a robe of righteousness and the crown of life. [ Beattie ]
The way to wealth is as plain as the road to market. It depends chiefly on two words, - industry and frugality. [ Franklin ]
There are but two ways of paying debt: increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out. [ Carlyle ]
Great effects come of industry and perseverance; for audacity doth almost bind and mate the weaker sort of minds. [ Bacon ]
Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry, and is as often trundling in a wheelbarrow as lolling in a coach and six. [ Goldsmith ]
That great chain of causes, which, linking one to another, even to the throne of God Himself, can never be unraveled by any industry of ours. [ Burke ]
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor. [ Montesquieu ]
Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep. [ Benjamin Franklin ]
What chiefly distinguishes great artists from feeble artists is first their sensibility and tenderness; secondly, their imagination; and thirdly, their industry. [ John Ruskin ]
Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive. [ Colton ]
Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are out of the reach of the rules of art: a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire. [ Sir J. Reynolds ]
If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiencies. Nothing is denied to well-directed labor: nothing is ever to be attained without it. [ Sir Joshua Reynolds ]
That mere will and industry can enable any man to accomplish anything is a belief common enough amongst imperfectly educated man. But no one of really cultivated intellect denies the variety of natural endowments. [ Hamerton ]
With us all is inconsistency. France, seriously speaking, is the country of wit and folly, of industry and idleness, of philosophy and fanaticism, of gaiety and pedantry, laws and their abuses, good taste and impertinence. [ Voltaire ]
The great secret both of health and successful industry is the absolute yielding up of one's consciousness to the business and diversion of the hour - never permitting the one to infringe in the least degree upon the other. [ Sismondi ]
Equality is one of the most consummate scoundrels that ever crept from the brain of a political juggler - a fellow who thrusts his hand into the pocket of honest industry or enterprising talent, and squanders their hardearned profits on profligate idleness or indolent stupidity. [ Paulding ]
Wealth is not acquired, as many persons suppose, by fortunate speculations and splendid enterprises, but by the daily practice of industry, frugality, and economy. He who relies upon these means will rarely be found destitute, and he who relies upon any other will generally become bankrupt. [ Wayland ]
It is a great mortification to the vanity of man that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of Nature's productions, either for beauty or value. Art is only the underworkman, and is employed to give a few strokes of embellishment to those pieces which come from the hand of the master. [ Hume ]
Necessity is always the first stimulus to industry, and those who conduct it with prudence, perseverance and energy will rarely fail. Viewed in this light, the necessity of labor is not a chastisement, but a blessing, - the very root and spring of all that we call progress in individuals and civilization in nations. [ Samuel Smiles ]
Excellence is never granted to man, but as the reward of labor. It argues, indeed, no small strength of mind to persevere in the habits of industry, without the pleasure of perceiving those advantages which, like the bands of a clock, whilst they make hourly approaches to their point, yet proceed so slowly as to escape observation. [ Sir Joshua Reynolds ]
When the desire of wealth is taking hold of the heart, let us look round and see how it operates upon those whose industry or fortune has obtained it. When we find them oppressed with their own abundance, luxurious with out pleasure, idle without ease, impatient and querulous in themselves, and despised or hated by the rest of mankind, we shall soon be convinced that if the real wants of our condition are satisfied, there remains little to be sought with solicitude or desired with eagerness. [ Dr. Johnson ]