Quotes & Sayings About Laziness Sloth

I've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance? — Ronald Reagan

In a culture where busyness is a fetish and stillness is laziness, rest is sloth. But without rest, we miss the rest of God: the rest he invites us to enter more fully so that we might know him more deeply. "Be still, and know that I am God." Some knowing is never pursued, only received. And for that, you need to be still. Sabbath is both a day and an attitude to nurture such stillness. It is both time on a calendar and a disposition of the heart. It is a day we enter, but just as much a way we see. Sabbath imparts the rest of God - actual physical, mental, spiritual rest, but also the rest of God - the things of God's nature and presence we miss in our busyness. — Mark Buchanan

Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues. — Charles Caleb Colton

Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments. — Horace

The last shall not become the first if the last is lagging behind. — Michael Bassey Johnson

The problem with spiritual procrastination is the uncertain time of the deadline. — Kevin Thoman

Without will-power, you become a victim to the evils of procrastination, laziness and sloth. — Robin S. Sharma

You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it! — Leo Tolstoy

The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable. — Henry David Thoreau

There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business. — Samuel Johnson

Once Fang took pep pills and they worked - the only time he ever ran to bed. — Phyllis Diller

It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility. — Samuel Johnson

Nobody has ever thought himself to death. The chief danger confronting us is not age. It is laziness, sloth, routine, stupidity, - forcing their way in like wind through the shutters, seeping into the cellar like swamp water. — Gilbert Highet

Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to it himself. — A. H. Weiler

I'd love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don't consider laziness a sin at all. — Kajol

Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly. — Elizabeth Hurley

He had destroyed his talent by not using it, by betrayals of himself and what he believed in, by drinking so much that he blunted the edge of his perceptions, by laziness, by sloth, and by snobbery, by pride and by prejudice, by hook and by crook. What was this? A catalogue of old books? What was his talent anyway? It was a talent all right but instead of using it, he had traded on it. It was never what he had done, but always what he could do. — Ernest Hemingway,

That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided. — Horace

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him. — Benjamin Franklin

The scent of Sloth tempts a smug man. — James Boswell

Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard. — William Shakespeare

I remember once a vocational director said to Fang, "You must develop some mechanical skills - like getting out of bed." — Phyllis Diller

The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after. — John Lyly