Employment Quote by Edmund Burke

Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his mind with…

— Samuel Johnson

To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Work is as much a necessity to man as eating and sleeping. Even those who do nothing that can be called work still imagine…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!

— William Cowper

“Joblessness does not necessarily mean idleness”

— Sunday Adelaja

Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.

— J. G. Holland

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

— Samuel Butler

No man is so idle that he cannot rouse himself just enough to get in the way of a busy person.

— Robert Breault

It is idleness that is the curse of man - not labour. Idleness eats the heart out of men as of nations, and consumes…

— Samuel Smiles

The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder.

— T. S. Eliot

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

— Jeremy Collier

It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time.

— Marilynne Robinson