Ryan Gosling Quotes

Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil.

An army is strengthened by labor and enervated by idleness.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go.

I was trying to perform as best as possible. I was a boy at the time, but worked well with the sickle.

I used to work in kitchens, doing 12 or more hours a day of physical labor, so today, eight to 12 hours of cooking, chatting or filming feels like a vacation. When I have a scheduled 'day off,' I spend several hours writing, then I clean until I crash from fatigue. I don't relax well.

In my experience, being busy and working hard is the key to sanity/happiness.

Sitting in a rocker never appealed to me. Golf or fishing isn't as much fun as working.

When I was young, they used to call me 'foreman,' not because I was in charge, but because I did the work of four men.

I go for a 20-minute jog every day. I find I am much happier when I exercise. Running helps me debrief and work out my plan for the day.

I like being outside and I like hard work.

Love labour: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physique. It is wholesome for the body, and good for the mind. It prevents the fruits of idleness, which many times come of nothing to do, and leads many to do what is worse than nothing.

Modern life cannot be constructed on . . . physically strenuous principles. A great deal of work is sedentary, and most manual work exercises only a few specialized muscles.

The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of the hand.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor

Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.

Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.

If you move furniture all day, if you're a construction worker, if you have a job that's real physical, this idea that there is a sport that involves the kind of conventional, traditional view of toughness, you see that still as a positive thing.

But labor of the hands, even when pursued to the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the worst form of idleness. It has a constantand imperishable moral, and to the scholar it yields a classic result.

Idleness ruins the constitution

We have gained reality and lost dream. No more lounging under a tree and peering at the sky between one's big and second toes; there's work to be done. To be efficient, one cannot be hungry and dreamy but must eat steak and keep moving.

All of man’s work is a bloody business. That fact, today, is considered foolish, affairs are finished cleverly with words alone, and jobs that require effort are avoided. I would like young men to have some understanding of this.

I really enjoy working physically.

There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.