Eagerness Quote by Jane Austen

Men fall into a routine when they are tired and slack: it has all the appearance of activity with few of its burdens.

— Walter Lippmann

Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy…

— William James

A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there…

— Michel de Montaigne

“My own view is that everyone works too hard and too long and they ought to get out more. There isn’t time in their…

— Kerry Greenwood

Our youth want less adult contact if that co ntacttreats them like boys. They want more adult contact that treats them like young men.…

— Michael Gurian

Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I'd rather motivate somebody all day long.

— Young Dolph

Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment is so…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

Don't let fatigue make a coward of you.

— Steve Prefontaine

Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau