1828
Dictionary: Habitual
diligence in any employment, either bodily or mental; steady attention to
business; assiduity; opposed to sloth and idleness. We are directed to take
lessons of industry from the bee. industry pays debts, while idleness or despair will
increase them.
Dictionary.com: the aggregate of manufacturing or technically productive enterprises in a particular field, often namedafter its principal product: the automobile industry; the steel industry.
Lds.org: And behold, I am also a man of no small
reputation among all those who know me; yea, and behold, I have many kindreds
and friends, and I have also acquired much riches by the hand of my industry.
-Alma
10:4
And it came to pass in the eighth year of the
reign of the judges, that the people of the church began to wax proud, because
of their exceeding riches, and their fine silks, and their fine-twined linen,
and because of their many flocks and herds, and their gold and their silver,
and all manner of precious things, which they had obtained by theirindustry; and in all these things were they lifted up
in the pride of their eyes, for they began to wear very costly apparel.
-Alma
4:6
Quotes: 'Industry need not wish.'
-Benjamin
Franklin
A wise and frugal government,
which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise
free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not
take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
-Thomas Jefferson
Personal
Definition: A form of diligence or commitment to
something, even though it can be very hard. Yep!
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