Idleness Quotes

269 quotes by 179 authors

When the perfect order prevails, the world is like a home shared by all. Leaders are capable and virtuous. Everyone loves and respects their own… — Confucius
Everyone should be taught the nobility of labor, the heroism and splendor of honest effort. As long as it is considered disgraceful to labor, or… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind. — Henry Ford
Idleness only leads to bad deeds — Unknown Author
Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty, I answered. One… — Plato
Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.... — Hippocrates
Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not cured then, it… — Carlo Collodi
The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices — Paul Valery
The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom. — Henry David Thoreau
He lacks much who has no aptitude for idleness. — Louise Wilder
Idleness or boredom has no place in the life of a Christian. — Pope Paul VI
We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary. — Agatha Christie
In effort Happiness idleness life pleasure superstition support trouble work The superstition that all our hours of work are a minus quantity in the happiness… — Arthur Balfour
Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness. — William Beveridge
There is not a thing on the face of the earth that I abhor so much as idleness or idle people. — George Whitefield
Timing is everything. Tell me how a young man spends his evenings and I will tell you how far he is likely to go in… — B. C. Forbes
From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a fever. The… — Charles Caleb Colton
Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all… — Jupiter Hammon
Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger. — Mason Cooley
I wonder at the idleness of tears. — Lizette Woodworth Reese

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