Day by day Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Actually, the laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations tomen; his…

— 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

The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.

— 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

“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

“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

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

Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never.

— Benjamin Franklin

“It is not fitting that one man should live in idleness on another's labor, or be rich and live comfortably at the cost of…

— Martin Luther

“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

Laziness begat wearisomeness, and this put men in quest of diversions, play and company, on which however it is a constant attendant; he who…

— Jean de la Bruyere

“I think it should not be otherwise in industry. The men are there to get the greatest possible amount of work done and to…

— Henry Ford