Character Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

Much work is merely a way to make money; much leisure is merely a way to spend it.

— C. Wright Mills

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

— Dalai Lama

Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because no one…

— Clement Greenberg

Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent…

— Oscar Wilde

We therefore work, not for the work's sake, but for money—and money is supposed to get us what we really want in our hours…

— Anonymous

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

— Benjamin Franklin

“For most of us the time we spend at our work is a large part of our whole lives, and as our job usually…

— Friedrich A. Hayek

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it.…

— Elisabeth Elliot

Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of…

— Josef Pieper

Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure.

— Mortimer Adler

Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that prevails on…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman