A Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

That man is idle who can do something better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
American - Philosopher
May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882

Just enough sense to stick with something-a chore, task, project, until its completed pays off much better than idle intelligence, even if idle intelligence be of genius caliber.

David J. Schwartz

Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power, it is surely idle to talk of plans for a stable peace.

Francis Bowes Sayre, Sr.

They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.

Socrates

I call that man idle who might be better employed.

Socrates

An idle man has a constant tendency to torpidity. He has adopted the Indian maxim that it is better to walk than to run, and better to stand than to walk, and better to sit than to stand, and better to lie than to sit. He hugs himself into the notion, that God calls him to be quiet.

Richard Cecil

And he who lives a hundred years, idle and weak, a life of one day is better if a man has attained firm strength.

Gautama Buddha

I'm like, 'Man, if I'm going to have this idle time, I might as well be in school, do something positive where I'm not just wasting my prime years and not getting something else in return.' If I'm in school and training, that's OK. I did that in college. It worked.

Aljamain Sterling

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

Benjamin Franklin

Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us to develop into full human beings.

Russell Kirk

There are idle spots on every farm, and every highway is bordered by an idle strip as long as it is; keep cow, plow, and mower out of these idle spots, and the full native flora, plus dozens of interesting stowaways from foreign parts, could be part of the normal environment of every citizen.

Aldo Leopold

It's not an idle boast that the British Army is, man for man, probably the best fighting force in the world.

Nicholas Soames

It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad, and it is better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent, but silence is better than idle words.

Muhammad

When the idle poor, Become the idle rich, You'll never know, Just who is who, Or who is which.

Yip Harburg

In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I don't understand being idle; I don't have an idle setting. I probably should develop one.

John Darnielle

And, indeed, I will at this point ask an idle question on my own account: which is better — cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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