161 Quotes About Leisure

Stop over-loading yourself with numberless tasks. Give time to yourself for rest and positive deliberations. You can’t think better and plan better when you are under stress!

The hardest thing is to do nothing and do it well.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure. There will be a wide margin for relaxation to his day. He is only earnest to secure the kernels of time, and does not exaggerate the value of the husk. Why should the hen set all day? She can lay but one egg, and besides she will not have picked up materials for a new one. Those who work much do not work hard.

Leisure is not always relaxation and it is relaxation that counts.

Days one mindlessly fritters away are the best days

Leisure isn't always relaxation and it's relaxation that counts.

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Sam Rayburn on LBJ's recuperation from his heart attack: "It would kill him if he relaxed.

Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing any work. But even he fulfills a function in the life of the social organism. He sets an example of luxury that awakens in the multitude a consciousness of new needs and gives industry the incentive to fulfill them.