Diligence Quote by Benjamin Franklin

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

— Benjamin Franklin

Leisure is the time for doing something useful.

— Benjamin Franklin

Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have…

— Aristotle

Leisure is non-work for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to…

— Bob Black

Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of…

— Josef Pieper

Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being…

— George Bernard Shaw

On the whole, the enjoyment of leisure is something which decidedly costs less than the enjoyment of luxury. All it requires is an artistic…

— Lin Yutang

Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends…

— H. L. Mencken

leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work.

— Nan Fairbrother

Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent.

— Margaret Mead