Business Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes…

— Lucy Larcom

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

“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

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

— Henry David Thoreau

A willing, cheerful worker, with his heart in his job, will turn out more work and more satisfactory work in 44 hours than an…

— B. C. Forbes

Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of…

— Edmund Burke

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

— Benjamin Franklin

An industrious farmer occupies a more dignified place in the scale of beings...than a lazy lounger...too proud to work, and drawing out a miserable…

— Thomas Jefferson

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

If this labourer were in possession of his own means of production, and was satisfied to live as a labourer, he need not work…

— Karl Marx

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

There is no substitute for work; what seems ease of performance comes from the greatest labor.

— Pablo Casals