Action Quote by William Hazlitt

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to be a…

— William Shenstone

Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.

— Edward Abbey

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.

— Anonymous

Indolence is the devil's cushion.

— Samuel Johnson

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

Comfort and indolence are cronies.

— Thomas Hood

If we face our unpleasant feelings with care, affection, and nonviolence, we can transform them into a kind of energy that is healthy and…

— Nhat Hanh

Life was not given for indolent contemplation and study of self, nor for brooding over emotions of piety: Actions and actions only determine the…

— Immanuel Hermann Fichte

We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure, by being…

— Adam Clarke