Indolent Quotes

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The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
You must pray with all your might. That does not mean saying your prayers, or sitting gazing about in church or chapel with eyes wide… — William Booth
We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God hath given liberty… — John Philpot Curran
The countless gold of a merry heart, The rubies and pearls of a loving eye, The indolent never can bring to the mart, Nor the… — William Blake
Man like every other animal is by nature indolent. If nothing spurs him on, then he will hardly think, and will behave from habit like… — Albert Einstein
Non-doing has nothing to do with being indolent or passive. Quite the contrary. It takes great courage and energy to cultivate non-doing, both in stillness… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
Existence was given us for action, rather than indolent and aimless contemplation; our worth is determined by the good deeds we do, rather than by… — Elias Lyman Magoon
RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless. — Ambrose Bierce
Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as… — William Hazlitt
As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the… — Oliver Goldsmith
All who contribute to the overthrow of religion, or to the ruin of kingdoms and commonwealths, all who are foes to letters and to the… — Niccolo Machiavelli
The negro is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work and saving, which… — Che Guevara
The ***** is indolent and lazy, and spends his money on frivolities, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent. — Che Guevara
The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have conserved their racial purity by a lack of affinity with washing, have seen their… — Che Guevara
Though you may have known clever men who were indolent, you never knew a great man who was so; and when I hear a young… — John Ruskin
Observations of the sickening effect of programmed environments show that people in them become indolent, impotent, narcissistic and apolitical. The political process breaks down, because… — Ivan Illich
There was more courage in bearing trouble than in escaping from it; the brave and the energetic cling to hope, even in spite of fortune;… — Tacitus
All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state;… — Victor Cousin
R.I.P. A careless abbreviation of "requiescat in pace", attesting to indolent goodwill to the dead. According to the learned Dr. Drigge, however, the letters originally… — Ambrose Bierce

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