Certain Quote by Augustus William Hare

Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.

— Samuel Johnson

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.

— Thomas a Kempis

We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is not a thing on the face of the earth that I abhor so much as idleness or idle people.

— George Whitefield

Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended.... Idleness as such is by…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Everyone is called, everyone is sent out… The call of God can reach us on the assembly line and in the office, in the…

— Pope Francis

I always considered an idle Life, as a real evil, but, a life of such hurry, such constant hurry, leaves us scarcely a moment…

— Edward Rutledge

No idle word should be uttered. I understand a word to be idle when it serves no good purpose, either for myself or for…

— Anonymous

How sweet and sacred idleness is!

— Walter Savage Landor

Idleness or boredom has no place in the life of a Christian.

— Pope Paul VI

Idleness is an enemy of the soul.

— Benedict of Nursia

Is there no God, then, but at best an absentee God, sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath, at the outside of his Universe?

— Thomas Carlyle