Idle Quotes
Idle Quote of the day
People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning the number of idle words they speak.
Look At The Clock When You Are Sitting idle. But Never Look At The Clock When You Are Working.
God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn for Thee. Consume my life, my God, for it is Thine. I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you, Lord Jesus.
Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
EVERY intention which does not assert itself by deeds is a vain intention, and the speech which expresses it is idle speech. It is action which proves life and establishes will
As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.
God helps those who work, not those who are idle. No one helps an inactive person, but one who joins in the labor. The good God himself will bring...work to perfection.
If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.
How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!
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.
Lately I've heard rumors that the eagle may be lame. Just because I've been idle, don't mean that I'm tame.
If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale.
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.
All of our days are numbered. We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all, because the worth of an idea never becomes apparent until you do it.
It is idle to dispute with old men. Their opinions, like their cranial sutures, are ossified.
Our lives show the accumulation of all of our varied wishes. Wanting something with all your heart will begin to slough away all of your untrue and idle wishes. Success comes from an undivided heart.
Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not cured then, it can never be cured.
God is very merciful to those whom He sees struggling heart and soul for spiritual realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that His grace will never come.
As for joy, as little as one can have of it in this life, experience shows that it is not the idle who possess it, but those who are zealous in the service of God.
Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.
No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.
One who does not rouse themself when it is time to rise, who, though capable, is full of sloth, whose will and thought are weak, that lazy and idle person will never find their way to true knowledge.
A true faith in Jesus Christ will not suffer us to be idle. No, it is an active, lively, restless principle; it fills the heart, so that it cannot be easy till it is doing something for Jesus Christ.
No idle word should be uttered. I understand a word to be idle when it serves no good purpose, either for myself or for another, and was not intended to do so.
The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them.
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
There is not a thing on the face of the earth that I abhor so much as idleness or idle people.
Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.
It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging self-identity of the master
Thanks be to God, since my leaving drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.
The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to deny.
Gloating is a superficial glowing, floating is an idle flowing, and bloatedness is the paralysis of blowing up; because silent movement results in loud victories.
Why should I tremble at the plough of my Lord, that maketh deep furrows on my soul? I know He is no idle husbandman, He purposeth a crop.
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
When Rick Perry says I can do for America what I've done for Texas, pay attention. That's no idle threat.
