Idleness Quotes

269 Idleness quotes by 179 unique authors

Idleness leads to relaxation, sooner or later bringing about ideological and material corruption, accompanied by lack of discipline, anarchy chaos and defeat. — Samora Machel
The idea of passing one's whole life in moral idleness, and having one's hardest work and duty done by another-whether God or man-is most revolting… — H. P. Blavatsky
Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in… — Karen Allen
... Oceanic malaise. I never saw anyone reading anything more demanding than a comic book. I never heard any youth express an interest in science… — Paul Theroux
Fear is nothing but idleness of the will... — Eliphas Levi
Mistakes are good, successes are great, and idleness is a sin. — Mike Michalowicz
Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil.… — Charles Caleb Colton
Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton
National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice. — Samuel Smiles
Provide yourself with such work for your hands as can be done, if possible, both during the day and at night, so that you are… — Evagrius Ponticus
Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties, by leaving capital to find its… — Thomas B. Macaulay
If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a… — Henry Ward Beecher
Busy idleness urges us on. — Horace
They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages:… — Horace
We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Idleness is more an infirmity of the mind than of the body. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure — George Eliot
Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish. — Francois Rabelais
Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence. — Tacitus
The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them. — Plato
Idleness ruins the constitution — Unknown Author
Idleness is the key of beggary. — Charles Spurgeon
Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues — Benjamin Franklin
Wine is the source of the greatest evils among communities. It causes diseases, quarrels, seditions, idleness, aversion to labor, and family disorders. . . .… — Francois Fenelon

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