Action Quote by Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not cured then,…

— Carlo Collodi

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

— Jeremy Collier

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful…

— Thomas Jefferson

Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never.

— Benjamin Franklin

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful…

— Anonymous

No man has a right to be idle. Where is it that in such a world as this, that health, and leisure, and affluence…

— William Wilberforce

Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.

— J. G. Holland

“man has retained a love of idleness, but the curse weighs on the race not only because we have to seek our bread in…

— Leo Tolstoy

Idleness only leads to bad deeds

— Magnus Stenbock

Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.

— Floyd Dell

There is not a thing on the face of the earth that I abhor so much as idleness or idle people.

— George Whitefield

Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.

— Cesare Pavese