Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

If I'm going to play without any rest I might as well not play at all. I rest a lot but I work a lot too.

To work is simple enough; but to rest, there is the difficulty.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.

Workin' so hard every night and day and now we get to lay back.

The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.

And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.

The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.

I tell my staff, 'Give me your best, and then go home and live your life.' I've never asked anyone to work harder, but I've told plenty that they needed rest.

The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.

I don't know how to get bored. I need to learn to rest.

Working is hard and distracts from having fun.

Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

Without labor nothing prospers.

Moderation is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.

It seems perfectly simple and inevitable, like lying down after a long day's work.

He who is idle shall not eat the bread nor wear the garments of the laborer

I think I've learned not to take everything so seriously and just try to focus on the work the most.

The principle of work is part of self-discipline. Now, my dear young sisters, I have lived a good many years longer than you, but even back in Grandpa's time there was something to make you want to lie down and go to sleep-they called it work.

To be really productive, it's as important to rest when we're tired as it is to work when we're inspired.

To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.

The only thing that can bring joy is work.