Sloth Quotes

Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not to suffer.

Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them.

What do you want to avoid? Such an easy answer: sloth and unreliability. If you're unreliable it doesn't matter what your virtues are. You're going to crater immediately. Doing what you have faithfully engaged to do should be an automatic part of your conduct. You want to avoid sloth and unreliability.

The supreme crime of the church to-day is that everywhere and in all its operations and influences it is on the side of sloth of mind; that it banishes brains, it sanctifies stupidity, it canonizes incompetence.

I always forget how important the empty days are, how important it may be sometimes not to expect to produce anything, even a few lines in a journal. A day when one has not pushed oneself to the limit seems a damaged damaging day, a sinful day. Not so! The most valuable thing one can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of a room.

What is undeniable is that when comforts and convenience sap our energies and idealism, inactivity secretes sloth in to our minds like a poison in the blood.

Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.

It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.

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.

Sloth is most often evidenced in busyness ... in frantic running around, trying to be everything to everyone, and then having no time to listen or pray, no time to become the person who is doing these things.

I am overcome by my own amazing sloth...Can you please forgive me and believe that it is really because I want to do something well that I don't do it at all?

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

Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

Change without continuity is chaos. Continuity without change is sloth-and very risky.

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.

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.

All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born.

You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. The elephant hauls himself from the mud. In the same way drag yourself out of your sloth.

Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.

You are not an agnostic.....You are just a fat slob who is too lazy to go to Mass.

Using governmental force to impose a vision on others is intellectual sloth.

Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to it himself.

It's a shame that creativity and sloth look exactly the same.

Slovenliness is a lazy and beastly negligence of a man's own person, whereby he becomes so sordid as to be offensive to those about him.

Avoid sloth, bad company, dangerous conversations, and games; remembering that time passes and never returns, that you have a soul, and that if you lose your soul, you lose all.

Sloth and Silence are a Fool's Virtues

My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour - calm, quiet and introspective - did something to soothe my shattered self.

My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.

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

The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.

Prosperity engenders sloth.

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

The lazy are always wanting to do something.

Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.

Lethargy, bordering on sloth should remain the cornerstone of an investment style.

Lust is inseparably accompanied with the troubling of all order, with impudence, unseemliness, sloth, and dissoluteness.

Benign neglect, bordering on sloth, remains the hallmark of our investment process.

Sloth is the desire for ease, even at the expense of doing the known will of God. Whatever we do in life requires effort. Everything we do is to be a means of salvation. The slothful person is unwilling to do what God wants because of the effort it takes to do it. Sloth becomes a sin when it slows down and even brings to a halt the energy we must expend in using the means to salvation.

Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul,
whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.

An unclean person is universally a slothful one.

As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.

I rather would entreat thy company; To see the wonders of the world abroad, Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.

Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.

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

Often motivated by a desire to maintain the existing status quo, sloth almost cost the U.S. its auto industry, as it refused for decades to build fuel-efficient cars to compete with Japanese, Korean and European imports.

Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

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

Lethargy bordering on sloth remains the cornerstone of our investment style. The exception was Wells Fargo, a superbly-managed, high-return banking operation in which we increased our ownership to just under 10%, the most we can own without the approval of the Federal Reserve Board.