Leisure Quote by George Mac Donald

“……but work in the field has nothing to do with dignity or with anything except patience, concentration, and eternal vigilance”

— William Beebe

“But work used to be the lot of every man, and now it is rapidly becoming an aristocratic privilege. Men nowadays are more often…

— Colleen McCullough

“i don't believe i've ever been more certain than I am now that the development and understanding of man's workmanship is the fundamental need…

— Robert M. Edsel

“How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“hard work is still peace compared to what can worry a person on the inside.”

— Nancy E. Turner

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

— George MacDonald

“The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations to men; his…

— Henry David Thoreau

“What interest, in fact, can this depressing work have for the worker, when he knows that the fate awaiting him from the cradle to…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

“A philosophy of work is essential if we would be whole men, holy men, healthy men, joyous men. A certain amount of goods is…

— Dorothy Day

“I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you…

— Andy Warhol

There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope…

— Thomas Carlyle

“For my part, I think that to a man of spirit there is no other aim and end of his labours except the labours…

— Dr Jayaswal