54 Quotes About Idle

I am well known by my friends to be a workaholic - to their often justifiable annoyance. I am therefore keenly aware that such behavior is at best slightly pathological, and certainly in no sense makes one a better person.

The trouble with people nowadays is they don't know how to do nothing.

God does not require from you empty words or idle conversations

Bear it in mind that people who do not take actions are not and cannot be leaders. Leadership is action.

God doesn’t want us to sit idle and simply enjoy His presence, he wants a close relationship with Him

I no longer think that laziness is all about being idle. I now know when I become lazy- when I stop learning new things, and cease to grow.

If during the day, a person did not do anything about his purpose and calling, he did nothing at all

Okonkwo was ruled by one passion -- to hate everything that his father Unoka had loved. One of those things was gentleness and another was idleness.

Should God give you worlds, and laws, and treasures, and worlds upon worlds, and Himself also in the Divinest manner, if you will be lazy and not meditate, you lose all. 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.