Idle Quotes

438 Idle quotes by 328 unique authors

Be ashamed to catch yourself idle. — Benjamin Franklin
I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel… — Mary Oliver
... do not listen to vain and empty talk, in which the majority of world-loving people spend their time, and do not take pleasure in… — Lorenzo Scupoli
God is very merciful to those whom He sees struggling heart and soul for spiritual realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will… — Swami Vivekananda
God, I pray light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn up for thee. — Jim Elliot
On a mission your worst enemy is idle time. — Nipsey Hussle
The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to… — Robert Dale Owen
I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking… — Henry David Thoreau
It is idle to waste time and discuss whether it was within our power and duty to see whether we could prepare a Bill better… — Charles Tupper
It may be true that people who are merely mathematicians have certain specific shortcomings; however that is not the fault of mathematics, but is true… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle, but to procreate and bring up children, to support a household. This,… — Martin Luther
It would be idle to say that we were not, from time to time, aware that a volcano slumbered fitfully beneath us. There were dark… — Mary Virginia Terhune
The wind, as a direct motive power, is wholly inapplicable to a system of machine labour, for during a calm season the whole business of… — William Stanley Jevons
This is the perpetual and pitiful tragedy of the practical man in practical affairs. He always begins with a flourish of contempt for what he… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Dreaming is a form of action. Idleness is a form of action. The idle man stares at the sky and sees what constitutes our eternal… — Philippe Starck
She believed, and was entitled to believe, I must say, that all human beings were evil by nature, whether tormentors or victims, or idle standers-by.… — Kurt Vonnegut
We Indians are Latin America's moral reserve. We act according to a universal law that consists of three basic principles: do not steal, do not… — Evo Morales
There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Idle hands make fretful minds. — Shelley Shepard Gray
Another hundred years may pass before we understand the true significance of Apollo. Lunar exploration was not the equivalent of an American pyramid, some idle… — Gene Cernan
If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and criminal, we… — William Makepeace Thackeray
We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all. Because the worth of the… — Nick Cave
Purge your mind of all aimless and idle thoughts, especially those that pry into the affairs of others or wish them ill. — Marcus Aurelius
Why should not we, who have renounced the king's authority, have our national preserves, where no villages need be destroyed, in which the bear and… — Henry David Thoreau
We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle… — Penelope Lively

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