Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.

Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.

— Horace

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy.

— Benjamin Franklin

To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their…

— Francis Bacon

The scent of Sloth tempts a smug man.

— James Boswell

A young boy shouldn't be given up for hopeless just because he's lazy, surly, and good for nothing. Don't be discouraged by those things…

— Gracie Allen

Sloth is all passions the most powerful.

— Samuel Beckett

The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after.

— John Lyly

“I've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?”

— Ronald Reagan

I remember once a vocational director said to Fang, "You must develop some mechanical skills - like getting out of bed."

— Phyllis Diller

It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.

— Samuel Johnson

I'd love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don't consider laziness a sin at all.

— Kajol

The problem with spiritual procrastination is the uncertain time of the deadline.

— Kevin Thoman

Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.

— Samuel Johnson

Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to it himself.

— A. H. Weiler

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business…

— Benjamin Franklin