Action Quote by David Hume

Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according…

— David Hume

Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence

— Thomas Jefferson

Employment, which Galen calls 'Nature's Physician,' is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery.

— Robert A. Burton

True Happiness Consist Not In The Multitude of Friends. But, In The Worth And Choice.

— Pacifiersucker

One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that…

— Diogenes

Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time.

— Robert Grudin

Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety.

— Bertrand Russell

And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth…

— David Hume

The love of indolence is universal, or next to it.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“A sloppy half-Windsor is the first symptom of serial indolence' she replied in the patronizing voice that Yellows reserved for Rule-breakers, 'and ignoring the…

— Jasper Fforde

To will the impossible is usually a sin of indolence.

— Fanny Lewald