industriousness

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Instead, make extract in larger containers and marvel at your own industriousness.

From Washington Post

Some progressives, who are more interested in minimizing inequality than maximizing opportunity, insist that not even industriousness makes an individual deserving because it is an inherited trait.

From Washington Post

It instilled an "industriousness" and independent, determined spirit that helped him wade through the course work and the long hours, but it has also prepared him for the stresses and strains, he said.

From BBC

Moneyed success in the United States increasingly comes from stock incomes and tax benefits, not from hard work or “diligence, industriousness, self-reliance, or deferral of gratification,” as Mr. Will averred.

From Washington Post

Furthermore, the “rhetoric of responsibility” and of being “masters of our fate” obscures the degree to which even virtues conducive to thriving in a merit-based society — diligence, industriousness, self-reliance, deferral of gratification — are learned.

From Washington Post