Advantage Quote by Hamilton Wright Mabie

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

[Industrialism's soon diminishing] capacity to supply human needs could be prevented if men exercised any restraint or foresight in their present frenzied exploitation.

— Bertrand Russell

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty…

— Samuel Johnson

Men are not really born either hopelessly idle, or preternaturally industrious. They may move in one direction or the other as will or circumstances…

— Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a…

— William E. Gladstone

“A man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the…

— Henry David Thoreau

I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer…

— Henry David Thoreau

“man has retained a love of idleness, but the curse weighs on the race not only because we have to seek our bread in…

— Leo Tolstoy

“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

If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“…man never regards what he possesses as so much his own, as what he does; and the labourer who tends a garden is perhaps…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Man, the more he gains freedom in the sense of emerging from the original oneness with man and nature and the more he becomes…

— Erich Fromm