Circumstances Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Some are 'industrious' and appear to love labor for its own sake, or perhaps because it keeps them out of worse mischief; to such…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors…

— Henry David Thoreau

“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

“Men who do not work themselves and who undertake nothing in their lives easily loose patience and fall into error when judging the work…

— Ivo Andrić

“Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves.”

— James Allen

“The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“Poor people are generally a reminder that hard work can be ineffective.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“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

“Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now…

— George Mac Donald

“There are some so restless that when they are free from labour they labour all the more, because the leisure they they have for…

— Anonymous

“...he who delights in work will not long remain unemployed.”

— James Allen

“It is fair to say that, in general, no problems have been exhausted; instead, men have been exhausted by the problems”

— Santiago Ramón y Cajal