Get busy living or get busy dying. – Stephen King
He who indulges in idleness, deserves no success. – Dr T.P.Chia
An idling mind produces a weak learner who enjoys the comfort of leisure time. – Dr T.P.Chia
There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want. – Bill Watterson
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day. – A.A. Milne
Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is. – William E. Barrett
Idle hands are the Devil’s workshop.
Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools. – Lord Chesterfield
If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle. – Samuel Johnson
The only thing wrong with doing nothing is that you never know when you’re finished.
Do not let idleness set in, not even for a second, as seconds will lead to minute, minutes will lead to hour, hours will lead to day, days will lead to week, weeks will lead to month, months will lead to year, years will be wasted before you realize there is no more time left to waste.
Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre. – Albert Camus
It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness. – George Borrow
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed. – St. Jerome
The hardest work is to go idle. – Yiddish Proverb
The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning. – Samuel Johnson
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease. – Benjamin Franklin
Gardens are not made by singing “Oh, how beautiful,” and sitting in the shade. – Rudyard Kipling
Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind. – Henry Ford
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor – Victor Hugo
Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind. – Johann Gottfried Seume
Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace. – Hesiod
There is a working class – strong and happy – among both rich and poor: there is an idle class – weak, wicked, and miserable – among both rich and poor. – John Ruskin
Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals. – Voltaire
Even the strongest of iron is eaten away by rust.
Inactivity creates fatigue. – Shane Parrish
The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it. – John Lubbock
An idle mind is soon lost.
I work to stay alive. – Bette Davis
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of Hell. – George Bernard Shaw
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. – John Lubbock
The hour of idleness is the hour of temptation. – Proverb
Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended…. Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; on the contrary, it is truly a divine life, if one is not bored…. – Soren Kierkegaard
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. – Benjamin Franklin
There is no greater cause of melancholy than idleness. – Robert Burton
One of the commonest characteristics of the successful man is his idleness, his immense capacity for wasting time. – Arnold Bennett
Idleness is the beginning of all vices. – Proverb
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much can be done if we are always doing. – Thomas Jefferson
Domestic commitment is a way of moving closer to God because you don’t have time for sin.
Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel. – John Quincy Adams
Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace. – Farley Mowat
Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present. – Cyril Connolly
Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
Idleness gives great advantage to the tempter. Standing waters gather filth. – Matthew Henry
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