Idleness Quotes

A soldier's time is passed in distress and danger, or in idleness and corruption.

Give me to live with Love alone And let the world go dine and dress; For Love hath lowly haunts... If life's a flower, I choose my own 'T is "love in Idleness".

The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.

A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity.

There is no remedy for time misspent; No healing for the waste of idleness, Whose very languor is a punishment Heavier than active souls can feel or guess.

I was never comfortable with the risk of climbing in the Himalayas, or the amount of time in idleness that is involved in the Everest expedition.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

I'm not a fan of idleness, except in small doses.

Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure.

Hereditary wealth is in reality a premium paid to idleness.

It's heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt.

Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.

And to the English court assemble now, From every region, apes of idleness!

I rather would entreat thy companyTo see the wonders of the world abroadThan, living dully sluggardiz'd at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.

Machinery which is not used is not capital.

According to his habit, Theodore Roosevelt sought to harness anxiety through action.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of Hell.

Extreme busyness whether at school or college kirk or market is a symptom of deficient vitality and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

If a soldier or labourer complains of the hardship of his lot set him to do nothing.

He is not only idle who does nothing but he is idle who might be better employed.

There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.

Is idleness indeed so black a crime?What are the Busy doing, half their time?

Joblessness does not necessarily mean idleness

If you wait for the mango fruits to fall, you'd be wasting your time while others are learning how to climb the tree

To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.

Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live.

if you cannot find the distinctive opportunities you want, you can create the distinctive opportunities you want but you can't find!

An idle mind is a devil’s workshop and I am prone to renting out my mind to the first bidder.

Nobody does nothing. Everybody does something, sometimes nothing is something in the idle man's world.

If your passion does not keep you sleepless, you can't be a good beginner. When passion itches, a great hand scratches... Wake up, it's your time to rise above idleness!

Boredom is the Devil's delight.

Busy hands achieve more than idle tongues.

We may regard certain days as free days. Free days are however fee days. We will pay later

Success operates in active moments and not in idleness.

If you think of something, do it.Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.

If only you can add just one great and distinctive thing to your life each day, you shall surely not just live and leave one great thing!

I never did anything in life to anyone's imagination.

True blessing comes in the dress of sweats, never delaying to wave bye to the excuses and procrastination. True blessing lies in hard work!

There is no harvest without hard work, therefore never expect chance to solve your problems of abject need for you. You must take deliberate actions!

The mind never sleeps. Though the body can be idle, there shall always be something for the mind to do! Do something with your mind then!

Idleness is a form of passivity in an active universe.

One can only be constantly envious of other people's achievements through idleness, because true dreamers are too focused on their goals and dreams to be worrying about other people's business.

My freshness is spending its wavering shower in the dust.

An idle genius is an oxymoron.

Even if you can’t dance, you can shake your body. Even if you can’t sing, you can make some noise.

Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now.

More free time means more time to waste. The worker who used to have only a little time in which to get drunk and beat his wife now has time to get drunk beat his wife - and watch TV.

It is no rest to be idle.

There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages when one third of the year consisted of holidays and festivals.

Any fool can be fussy and rid himself of energy all over the place but a man has to have something in him before he can settle down to do nothing.