Consumes Quote by Samuel Smiles

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor…

— Anne Baxter

Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest, And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself useless.

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder.

— T. S. Eliot

“man has retained a love of idleness, but the curse weighs on the race not only because we have to seek our bread in…

— Leo Tolstoy

Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men.

— Henry Ford

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

Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in…

— Benedict of Nursia

Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron

— Ezra Cornell

Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

“Nothing is more alien to the present age than idleness. If we think of resting from our labours, it is only in order to…

— John Gray

Why, man of idleness, labor has rocked you in the cradle, and nourished your pampered life; without it, the woven silk and the wool…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“According to the biblical tradition the absence of work -- idleness -- was a condition of the first man's state of blessedness before the…

— Leo Tolstoy