Business Quote by James Anthony Froude

Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will…

— Josef Pieper

We must avoid fastidiousness; neatness, when it is moderate, is a virtue; but when it is carried to an extreme, it narrows the mind.

— Francois Fenelon

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures…

— William Wordsworth

“We are, on earth, two distinct races. Those who have need of others, whom others amuse, engage soothe, whom solitude harasses, pains, stupefies, like…

— Guy de Maupassant

“A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in…

— Arthur Schopenhaur

“What an abundance of leisure the person gains who is not looking over at what his neighbor is saying, doing, or thinking, but only…

— Jacob Needleman

At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.

— Charles de Gaulle

The right use of leisure is no doubt a harder problem than the right use of our working hours. The soul is dyed the…

— William Ralph Inge

“For we are so constituted by nature, that we are ever prone to compare ourselves with others; and our happiness or misery depends very…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire of new…

— Samuel Johnson

“In consequence, when the pleasures have been removed which busy people derive from their actual activities, the mind cannot endure the house, the solitude,…

— Seneca

“Nothing is therefore more dangerous than solitude. Our imagination, forced by its very nature to unfold, nourished by the fantastic visions of poetry, gives…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe