Quotes on Leisure
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
Jules Renard
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
W. N. Taylor
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
Seneca
Make rest a necessity, not an objective. Only rest long enough to gather strength.
Jim Rohn
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
Plato
Many people know how to work hard; many others know how to play well; but the rarest talent in the world is the ability to introduce elements of playfulness into work, and to put some constructive labor into our leisure.
Sydney Harris
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing. It's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Margaret Thatcher
Every now and then, go away, take a little relaxation, because when you come back to your work, your judgment will be surer. To remain constantly at work will cause you to lose power of judgment. Go some distance away, because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance, and a lack of harmony or proportion is more readily seen.
Leonardo da Vinci
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
Seneca
Comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, then a master. And then it becomes a tamer, and with a hook and whip it makes puppets of your larger desires.
Kahlil Gibran
Too many vacations that last too long, too many movies, too much TV, too much video game playing - too much undisciplined leisure time in which a person continually takes the course of least resistance gradually wastes a life. It ensures that a person's capacities stay dormant, that talents remain undeveloped, that the mind and spirit become lethargic and that the heart remains unfulfilled.
Stephen Covey
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Alternating periods of activity and rest is necessary to survive, let alone thrive. Capacity, interest, and mental endurance all wax and wane. Plan accordingly.
Timothy Ferriss
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Your use of leisure largely determines your progress – invest it, don’t spend it.
Fred Smith
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