Buddhist Quote by Gautama Buddha

Knowledge is praised and desired by multitudes whom her charms could never rouse from the couch of sloth; whom the faintest invitation of pleasure…

— Samuel Johnson

[An educated person:] One who voluntarily does more thinking than is necessary for his own survival.

— Mildred H. McAfee

“The opposite of sloth is not 'activity' or industriousness in a business sense. It is fortitude - including patience and long-suffering.”

— Thomas Merton

The person who properly disciplines himself to do those things that he does not especially care to do, becomes successful.

— Frank Leahy

The philanthropists inquire whether Transcendentalism does not mean sloth: they had as lief hear that their friend is dead, as that he is a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

People who regard themselves as highly efficacious act, think, and feel differently from those who perceive themselves as inefficacious. They produce their own future,…

— Albert Bandura

“Loosed of his burden, Christian makes his way to the bottom of the hill where he finds three men fast asleep. Foolish represents spiritual…

— John Bunyan

A person who knows all that is good and all that is true---as much as can be known---but does not resist evils, knows nothing.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work,…

— Anonymous

A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Someone who does not draw strength from himself and who is incapable of finding the meaning of his life within himself will...seek the map…

— Vaclav Havel

One who never asks either knows everything or nothing.

— Malcolm Forbes