Calling Quote by Thomas Carlyle

Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his mind with…

— Samuel Johnson

“Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now…

— George Mac Donald

“When it shall be desired to enlighten man, let him always have truth laid before him. Instead of kindling his imagination by the idea…

— Baron d'Holbach

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then that he…

— Blaise Pascal

“It is a human characteristic, which has been richly exploited in every era, that while hope of survival is still alive in a man,…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

He was a worker whose only desire was to penetrate with all his forces into the humble and difficult significance of his tools. Therein…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favor cannot satisfy him

— Samuel Johnson

“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

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty…

— Samuel Johnson

A long-established occupation may form the very foundations of the moral life, that the art with which a man has solaced his toil may…

— Jane Addams

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion…

— Edmund Burke

“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