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Idleness

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.
- Baxter, Anne
Idleness Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Idleness

1.
Millions are idle, but it's comforting to know that most of them have jobs.

2.
Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
Da Vinci, Leonardo

3.
The way to be nothing is to do nothing.
Howe, Nathaniel

4.
The hardest work of all is to do nothing.
Proverb

5.
Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.
Smart, Elizabeth

6.
Life is mostly froth and bubble. Two things stand like stone: Dodging duty at the double, leaving work alone.

7.
Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Woolf, Virginia

8.
The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. [Matthew 9:37]
Bible

9.
Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
Paul, Jean

10.
Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.
Seume, Johann G.

11.
Expect poison from standing water.
Blake, William

12.
He that is doing nothing is seldom in need of helpers.
Proverb

13.
You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My godmother used to say, I don't want to rust out, I just want to work out. If you stand still long enough, people will throw dirt on you.
Vereen, Ben

14.
Prolonged idleness paralyzes initiative.

15.
It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all.
Thurber, James

16.
Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.
Gandhi, Mahatma

17.
To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
Thoreau, Henry David

18.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
Hugo, Victor

19.
Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.
Baxter, Anne

20.
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
More, Hannah

21.
There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.
Mencken, H. L.

22.
Shun idleness is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
Voltaire

23.
The insupportable labor of doing nothing.
Steele, Sir Richard

24.
The life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
Cowper, William

25.
Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them --their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table.

26.
Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.
Kraus, Karl

27.
That man is idle who can do something better.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.
Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
Connolly, Cyril


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