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I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Industry.
A wise and frugal government,
which shall leave men free to regulate
their own pursuits of industry and improvement,
and shall not take from the mouth
of labor and the bread it has earned -
this is the sum of good government.
- Thomas Jefferson
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If 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
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All things share the same breath -
the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
The full measure of a man is
not to be found in the man himself,
but in the colors and textures that
come alive in others because of him.
- Albert Schweitzer
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab
I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
Every man must decide whether he will
walk in the light of creative altruism
or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is but the product of his thoughts -
what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
- W. C. Fields
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man,
but he is brave five minutes longer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
If you stand up and be counted,
from time to time you may get yourself knocked down.
But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again.
A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.
- Thomas J. Watson
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
If you talk to a man in a language he understands,
that goes to his head.
If you talk to him in his language,
that goes to his heart.
- Nelson Mandela
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear,
but the triumph over it.
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid,
but he who conquers that fear.
- Nelson Mandela
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
When the tempest rages, when the thunders roar,
and the lightnings blaze around us
it is then that the truly brave man stands firm at his post.
- Luther Martin
Dear Father in heaven, I'm not a praying man,
but if you're up there and you can hear me ...
show me the way... show me the way.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
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