Business Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“The opposite of sloth is not 'activity' or industriousness in a business sense. It is fortitude - including patience and long-suffering.”

— Thomas Merton

“Sloth is the natural result of unrewarded hard work among the poor, reason enough for them to be prickly.”

— Lao She

Sloth is most often evidenced in busyness ... in frantic running around, trying to be everything to everyone, and then having no time to…

— Eugene H. Peterson

Sloth is sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good...it is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as to draw…

— Thomas Aquinas

Sloth is the desire for ease, even at the expense of doing the known will of God. Whatever we do in life requires effort.…

— John Hardon

“Let me tell you that every man, whether he is born rich or poor, is obliged to do something in this world—to occupy himself,…

— Carlo Collodi

Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

“In a culture where busyness is a fetish and stillness is laziness, rest is sloth. But without rest, we miss the rest of God:…

— Mark Buchanan

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

— Benjamin Franklin

To be rich be diligent; move on Like heav'ns great movers that enrich the earth; Whose moment's sloth would show the world undone; And…

— William Davenant

Wealth and honours, which most men pursue, easily change masters; they desert to the side which excels in virtue, industry, and endurance of toil,…

— John Milton

The slothful is the servant of the counters.

— George Herbert