Doctrine Quote by Arthur Balfour

Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended.... Idleness as such is by…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Idleness only leads to bad deeds

— Magnus Stenbock

All successful individuals have become such by hard work; by improving moments before they pass into hours, and hours that other people may occupy…

— Mary Baker Eddy

Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.

— George MacDonald

Idleness, indifference and irresponsibility are healthy responses to absurd work.

— Frederick Herzberg

Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger.

— Mason Cooley

“lest the habit of work should be broken, and a taste for idleness acquired”

— John Stuart Mill

“People frequently ask me why I work so hard - prolong hours, infrequent vacations, and never calling in sick or missing work for any…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Idleness is worst, Idleness alone is without hope: work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at almost all things. There…

— Thomas Carlyle

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

— Anton Chekhov

“We have many reasons to hope for great happiness, but … we have to earn it. And that’s something you can’t achieve by taking…

— Anne Frank

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor…

— Anne Baxter