Slothful Quotes
31 quotes by 28 authors
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To strive in prayer means to struggle through those hindrances which would restrain or even prevent us entirely from continuing in persevering prayer. It means…
— Ole Hallesby
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The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable.
— Henry David Thoreau
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The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after.
— John Lyly
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For years we have been counseled to have on hand a year's supply of food. Yet there are some today who will not start storing…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The perfidious, savage, disdainful, stupid, slothful, inhospitable, stupid English.
— Julius Caesar Scaliger
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Struggles are a part of the sacred sanctification process. There are no soft or slothful ways to become sanctified to the point that we are…
— L. Lionel Kendrick
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I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against…
— John Steinbeck
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Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the poor sighted reader,…
— Alberto Manguel
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Sloth is the desire for ease, even at the expense of doing the known will of God. Whatever we do in life requires effort. Everything…
— John Hardon
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I know how deeply slothful I am.
— Joseph Epstein
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It is thus religion infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity and fanaticism: if he has a heated imagination it drives him on…
— Baron d'Holbach
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I hate, simply, to work. I just hate to work, period. I am profoundly slothful. Practically inert.
— Fran Lebowitz
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What I believe...about more sleep than is needful concerns the individual who goes far beyond the need, developing slothful and lazy habits, which deaden the…
— Alvin R. Dyer
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When people who earn more than the average have their 'surplus', or the greater part of it, seized from them in taxes, and when people…
— Henry Hazlitt
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The only test of possession is use. The talent that is buried is not owned. The napkin and the hole in the ground are far…
— Maltbie Davenport Babcock
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I am excessively slothful, and wonderfully industrious-by fits. There are epochs when any kind of mental exercise is torture, and when nothing yields me pleasure…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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If we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at the hazard of…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Every man and woman who has talent and hides it will be called a slothful servant. Improve day by day upon the capital you have.…
— Brigham Young
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No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated…
— Saint Basil
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God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we…
— Charles Stanley
Who Wrote These Slothful Quotes
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