Quotes about leisure are expressions that highlight the importance and value of free time and relaxation. These quotes often emphasize the necessity of taking a break from work and responsibilities to enjoy leisure activities. They remind us that leisure is not a luxury but an essential part of a balanced and fulfilling life. These quotes encourage us to prioritize self-care, recharge our energy, and engage in activities that bring joy and rejuvenation.
Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall. — Fulton J. Sheen
In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are. — Ovid
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 trying to justify our existence. — Josef Pieper
To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands. — George Soros
The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure. — Laurence J. Peter
True luxury is being able to own your time - to be able to take a walk, sit on your porch, read the paper, not take the call, not be compelled by obligation. — Ashton Kutcher
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive. — Seneca The Elder
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive. — Seneca
Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture and ourselves. — Josef Pieper
Short Leisure Quotes
All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. — John Gunther
No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure. — James K. Polk
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. — Thorstein Veblen
Make haste with leisure. — German proverbs
Well, the world of entertainment and leisure is gigantic. — Jensen Huang
Do the things you enjoy within reason. Know your body and what works for you and you’ll be fine. — Meghan Markle
Sexuality is not a leisure or part-time activity. It is a way of being. — Alexander Lowen
The mandate of financial fair play in Europe is for clubs to live within their means. — John W. Henry
You either make business your lifestyle, or business becomes your lifestyle. — Isaac Mashman
Leisure Image Quotes
Leisure is the mother of philosophy.
Leisure Time Quotes
During the last times, men will be lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. When you think of our sports-driven society, and our media-driven society, and our leisure-driven society, then you understand we are living in the last days. — Jerry Falwell
Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I am not too much into Netflix and Amazon because spending quality time with family is more valuable. — Smriti Mandhana
All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times. — John Woolman
In the year 2000 you're going to have a problem...Leisure time will be a problem in the year 2000. I just want you to realize, I just want to make sure that you know of it now. — Edie Sedgwick
The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours. — Arthur Lacey
It's too bad that 'Dragon Ball,' which I drew for a very long time, has ended. Just kidding. I'm incredibly glad. Now I can just leisurely sit around! — Akira Toriyama
Time in nature is not leisure time; it's an essential investment in our chidlren's health (and also, by the way, in our own). — Richard Louv
A few years ago, everybody was saying we must have more leisure, everyone's working too much. Now everybody's got more leisure time they're complaining they're unemployed. People don't seem to make up their minds what they want. — Prince Philip
The real dividing line between things we call work and the things we call leisure is that in leisure, however active we may be, we make our own choices and our own decisions. We feel for the time being that our life is our own. — Raymond Williams
Work And Leisure Quotes
We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself. — Friedrich Nietzsche
People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms. — Alice Walker
A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. — François-René de Chateaubriand
If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody, and no unemployment — assuming a certain very moderate amount of sensible organization. This idea shocks the well-to-do, because they are convinced that the poor would not know how to use so much leisure. — Bertrand Russell
The true contemplative is one who has discovered the art of finding leisure even in the midst of his work, by working with such a spirit of detachment and recollection that even his work is a prayer — Thomas Merton
I do not have time to put a lot of work into organizing social events and a social life. — Sam Bankman-Fried
I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else. — Sean Bean
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time. — Henry David Thoreau
The secret to the city is integration. Every area of the city should combine work, leisure and culture. Separate these functions and parts of the city die. — Jaime Lerner
We should abolish 'work.' By that I mean abolishing the distinction between work and leisure, one of the greatest mistakes of the last century, one that enables employers to keep workers in lousy jobs by granting them some leisure time. — Theodore Zeldin
Leisure Activities Quotes
The trouble with the Internet is that it's replacing masturbation as a leisure activity. — Patrick Murray
I think that it is important to be gregarious, and that friendships are not just a leisure pursuit, that they are an integral part of what it is to be human, and one does better work if one has a circle of friends that is active. — Niall Ferguson
When you master role-playing [gaming], you become immersed in an activity that is peerless among leisure-time pursuits. — Gary Gygax
Anytime you exhaust yourself trying to relax, that's active leisure. — Po Bronson
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity. — Mortimer Adler
My hobbies and leisure activities include cars and golf. — Michael Strahan
People would have more leisure time if it weren't for all the leisure-time activities that use it up. — Peg Bracken
Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation. — George Bernard Shaw
I spend a lot of time talking to people who disagree with me - I would go so far as to say that it's my favourite leisure activity. — Ben Goldacre
One study found that volunteering actually makes people feel they have more time, not less. A good weekend usually involves more than just passive leisure, like spectator sports or binge-watching The Crown. What's more edifying are activities that generate meaning or purpose. — Katrina Onstad
Man Of Leisure Quotes
It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair. — Charles Baudelaire
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. — Henry David Thoreau
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars. — Henry David Thoreau
All too often modern man becomes the plaything of his circumstances because he no longer has any leisure time; he doesn't know how to provide himself with the leisure he needs to stop to take a good look at himself. — Michel Quoist
The student who secures his coveted leisure and retirement by systematically shirking any labor necessary to man obtains but an ignoble and unprofitable leisure, defrauding himself of the experience which alone can make leisure fruitful. — Henry David Thoreau
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. — Agnes Repplier
The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him. — H. L. Mencken
The greatest part of what we say and do is really unnecessary. If a man takes this to heart, he will have more leisure and less uneasiness. — Marcus Aurelius
Cultivated leisure is the aim of man. — Oscar Wilde
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man. — Benjamin Disraeli
Business And Leisure Quotes
Money is catching up to the technological trends transforming all aspects of society and business; entertainment, insurance, health-care, gaming, leisure, retail - all commercial and social verticals are going digital - including money itself. — Max Keiser
Passing too eagerly upon a provocation loses the guard and lays open the body; calmness and leisure and deliberation do the business much better. — Jeremy Collier
If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness. — Gunther Grass
If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle -- absolute busyness -- then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy -- and without consciousness. — Gunther Grass
The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself. — James Anthony Froude
If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness. — Gunter Grass
The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow. — Samuel Johnson
Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
I want 'Vogue' to be pacy, sharp, and sexy - I'm not interested in the super-rich or infinitely leisured. I want our readers to be energetic executive women, with money of their own and a wide range of interests. There is a new kind of woman out there. She's interested in business and money. — Sayings
Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure. — Aristotle
Leisured Quotes
To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real. — Winston Churchill
I believe in manicures.
I believe in overdressing.
I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipsitck. — Audrey Hepburn
The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods. — Thorstein Veblen
A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring; the fall of rivers, winds and seas, Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky - I've thought of all by turns, and still I lie Sleepless. — William Wordsworth
I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste. — Johnny Depp
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. — George Bernard Shaw
It is stimulating to live in a society that is not standardized or mechanized, and is free from monotony. — R.K. Narayan
On the whole, the enjoyment of leisure is something which decidedly costs less than the enjoyment of luxury. All it requires is an artistic temperament which is bent on seeking a perfectly useless afternoon spent in a perfectly useless manner. — Lin Yutang
Next to a leisurely walk I enjoy a spin on my tandem bicycle. It is splendid to feel the wind blowing in my face and the springy motion of my iron steed. The rapid rush through the air gives me a delicious sense of strength and buoyancy, and the exercise makes my pulse dance and my heart sing. — Helen Keller
Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to utilitarian ends [mathematics] has been able to arise in Egypt, the priestly caste there having the leisure necessary for disinterested research. — Aristotle
Recreation Quotes
Creativity consists in maintaining a key aspect of the experience of childhood throughout one's life: the capacity to create and recreate the world. Creativity is the omnipotence of the child's mind. — Donald Woods Winnicott
Eight hours daily labour is enough for any human being, and under proper arrangements sufficient to afford an ample supply of food, raiment and shelter, or the necessaries and comforts of life, and for the remainder of his time, every person is entitled to education, recreation and sleep. — Robert Owen
We need to remember what's important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work, it doesn't matter. But work is third. — Amy Poehler
Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself - what you're wearing, who you're around, what you're doing. Recreate and repeat. — Warsan Shire
I will tell you what rule I observed when I was young, and too much addicted to childish diversions-never to spend more time in mere recreation in one day than I spent in private religious devotions. — Susanna Wesley
Music's only purpose should be for the glory of God and the recreation
of the human spirit. — Johann Sebastian Bach
Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning. — Thomas Jefferson
Never get complacent. Nothing lasts forever. Constantly be in recreation mode! — Patrick Bet-David
For a variety of reasons, I believe, the time is right to resolve many of the long standing and thorny land use, recreation, and wilderness designation issues in Central Idaho. — Michael K. Simpson
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience. — Dale Carnegie
Recreational Activities Quotes
Life is best enjoyed when time periods are evenly divided between labor, sleep, and recreation...all people should spend one-third of their time in recreation which is rebuilding, voluntary activity, never idleness. — Brigham Young
Trying to wage war on 23 million Americans who are obviously very committed to certain recreational activities is not going to be any more successful than Prohibition was. — James Carriger Paine
It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity. — Dave Barry
Enrolling your child in a recreational sport sponsored by your neighborhood recreation community centers is a great way to keep kids active. — Lee Haney
Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change of activity. — Karl Marx
If someone else of the opposite sex joins either of you in your favorite recreational activities, you are at risk of falling in love with that person. — Willard F. Harley
Although humans tend to view sex as mainly a fun recreational activity sometimes resulting in death, in nature it is a far more serious matter. — Dave Barry
It is public land and we will do our best to provide recreational activities. We are looking at initially allowing kayak access, wade fishing, bicycle access and walking access on some of the interior roads. — John Wallace
Hiking is great because it's a lifelong sport and you're outdoors, active, so whether you call that a sport or a hobby or a recreation, I think the wording - it's a great way to get exercise, and it can be as challenging as you want to make it. — Jennifer Pharr Davis
Without question, bicycling is an efficient, economical and environmentally sound form of transportation and recreation. Bicycling is a great activity for families, recreational riders and commuters. Hillary, Chelsea and I have bicycles. — William J. Clinton
The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other. — Bertrand Russell
What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright. — Samuel Gompers
I believe almost any sports fan would purchase a club, if they had the means. — John W. Henry
Enjoy living life to the fullest. — Lisa Manoban
A lot of my friends who were really sporty in year 7 and 8, in years 9 and 10 they stopped playing. It was a shame. — Ellyse Perry
The cup of tea on arrival at a country house is a thing which, as a rule, I particularly enjoy. I like the crackling logs, the shaded lights, the scent of buttered toast, the general atmosphere of leisured cosiness. — P. G. Wodehouse
Lyric night of the lingering Indian Summer, Shadowy fields that are scentless but full of singing, Never a bird, but the passionless chant of insects, Ceaseless, insistent. The grasshopper's horn, and far-off, high in the maples, The wheel of a locust leisurely grinding the silence Under a moon waning and worn, broken, Tired with summer. — Sara Teasdale
We moved leisurely towards Mount Foster, on the 22nd, and arrived opposite to it a little before sunset. — Charles Sturt
The problem of education in a democratic society is to do away with ... dualism and to construct a course of studies which makes thought a guide of free practice for all and which makes leisure a reward of accepting responsibility for service, rather than a state of exemption from it. — John Dewey
Some of my fondest memories are holidays by the seaside. — Mary Berry
Work can be done at a pace that suits my sanity rather than one that supports costly overhead. — Paul Jarvis
The ambition of this football club is very clear. You have to fight for trophies and be in Europe. The rest is not good enough. — Mikel Arteta
In Conclusion
Leisure quotes also stress the significance of slowing down and savoring the present moment. They remind us that life is not just about constant hustle and productivity but also about finding contentment in simple pleasures. These quotes urge us to appreciate the beauty of nature, spend quality time with loved ones, and explore new hobbies and interests. They inspire us to create a harmonious rhythm between work and leisure, recognizing that both are necessary for our overall well-being.
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