There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
My regimen is lust and avarice for exercise, gluttony and sloth for relaxation. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“The comfort zone is a region where great dreams go to get murdered, buried and forgotten.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The problem with spiritual procrastination is the uncertain time of the deadline. — Kevin Thoman Copy Share Image
Change without continuity is chaos. Continuity without change is sloth-and very risky. — Max De Pree Copy Share Image
“The opposite of sloth is not 'activity' or industriousness in a business sense. It is fortitude - including patience and long-suffering.” — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Were cricket and football abolished, it would bring upon the masses nothing but misery, depression, sloth, indiscipline and disorder. — F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead Copy Share Image
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
You need not be proud of me… I'm only being active till you can be again--it isn't such a great desire on… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
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… — Gracie Allen Copy Share Image
My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Those of us forced to read the London papers sometimes speculate about which is greater: the average British hack's sloth, mendacity, ignorance,… — Larry King Copy Share Image
I envy because of the heart I glutton because of the heart I covet because of the heart I am prideful because… — Tite Kubo Copy Share Image
There is a holy love and a holy rage, and our best virtues never glow so brightly as when our passions are… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The first, sickness (vyadhi), is a physical obstacle, but the other eight can be considered mental. These include languor (styana), doubt (samshaya),… — Richard Rosen Copy Share Image
Nobody, I believe, will deny, that we are to form our judgment of the true nature of the human mind, not from… — Robert B. Leighton Copy Share Image
To try to stop war by placing before men's eyes the terrible suffering involved will never succeed, because men are willing (in… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“In the Middle Ages, the sin of sloth had two forms,” he said. “One was paralysis, the inability to do anything—what we… — Brigid Schulte Copy Share Image
Moss grows where nothing else can grow. It grows on bricks. It grows on tree bark and roofing slate. It grows in… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To have the external pressure of a job removed is very astonishing. Your own will is now your only motor and it… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there was a girl who discovered that if she played a certain tune on a jade flute, she… — Ursula Vernon Copy Share Image
“It may be easier to believe that we remain lean because we're virtuous and we get fat because we're not, but the… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and… — Angus Wilson Copy Share Image
Awake, my soul, and with the sun thy daily course of duty run. Cast off dull sloth, and joyful rise to pay… — Thomas Ken Copy Share Image
I think it is very important to conserve and protect the natural world. I’ve just come back from Costa Rica and they… — Colin Morgan Copy Share Image
And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean… — Plato Copy Share Image
