Idleness Quotes · Page 13

“Static people love to compensate for their inability to change themselves by always trying to change the world.”

— Criss Jami

Never let the brain idle. ‘An idle mind is the devil’s workshop.’ And the devil’s name is Alzheimer’s.

— George Carlin

Indolent people, whatever taste they may have for society, seek eagerly for pleasure, and find nothing. They have an empty head and…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.

— J. G. Holland

For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of life’s procession that marches in…

— Khalil Gibran

“Idleness and solitude led to these dramatics: an ordinary turd indulging himself as the chief of sinners.”

— Charles Portis

Idleness leads to relaxation, sooner or later bringing about ideological and material corruption, accompanied by lack of discipline, anarchy chaos and defeat.

— Samora Machel

There is nothing more dangerous than idleness...In labor there is salvation; in labor there is safety.

— Francis M. Lyman

Idleness and constancy fix the mind to what it finds easy and agreeable. This habit always confines and cramps up our knowledge;…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Everyone should be taught the nobility of labor, the heroism and splendor of honest effort. As long as it is considered disgraceful…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack…

— Pliny the Younger

It is not necessary for a man to be actively bad in order to make a failure in life; simple inaction will…

— James Terry White

Times are changed with him who marries; there are no more by-path meadows, where you may innocently linger, but the road lies…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Through faith we are restored to paradise and created anew. We have no need of works in order to be righteous; however,…

— Martin Luther

There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting…

— H. L. Mencken

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put…

— Anonymous

“Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which…

— George Mac Donald

Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.

— William Beveridge

A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Idleness, simon-pure, from which all manner of good springs like seed from a fallow soil, is sure to be misnamed and misconstrued.

— Louise Imogen Guiney

Flee idleness... for no one is more exposed to such temptations than he who has nothing to do.

— Robert Bellarmine

“Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now.”

— Anthony Burgess

And to tell the truth I don't want to let go of the wrists of idleness, I don't want to sell my…

— Mary Oliver

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

— Thomas Jefferson

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their…

— Jeremy Collier

It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt…

— Anonymous

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

— Thomas Carlyle

Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any…

— Edmund Burke

“His idleness was his refuge, and in this he was like many others in [occupied] France in that period; laziness became political.”

— Iain Pears

It's heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt.

— William J. Clinton

Pride, anger, gluttony, and idleness are sometimes conquered, but the conversion of a malicious and envious mind is a kind of miracle.

— Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont

the wasting of time is the most personal, most private, most intimate form of conversation with oneself, as well as with another.

— Mary Ruefle

“I didn’t want to give up my job and join the ranks of the Doing Fuck All brigade no matter how much…

— Sara Sheridan

I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

For when men labor they keep out of mischief. You remember the old proverb--An idle mind is the Devils workshop...

— George Q Cannon

I think the man who eats the bread of idleness is under a certain obligation to speak well of labor.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and…

— Anonymous

Instead of idleness, vanity, or an intellect formed by the spoon-feeding of others, my girls have acquired energy, industry, and independence.

— Geraldine Brooks

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

— Virginia Woolf

It is by his activities and not by enjoyment that man feels he is alive. In idleness we not only feel that…

— Immanuel Kant