Inspirational Quotes on Idleness

“An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction.”

“In idleness there is a perpetual despair.”

“He is idle that might be better employed.”

“Idleness tempts the devil to tempt.”

“I would neither have you be idle in duties - nor make an idol of duties.”

“Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.”

“There is not a thing on the face of the earth that I abhor so much as idleness or idle people.”

“I have spent many an hour, when I was younger, floating over its surface as the zephyr willed, having paddled my boat to the middle, and lying on my back across the seats, in a summer forenoon, dreaming awake, until I was aroused by the boat touching the sand, and I arose to see what shore my fates had impelled me to; days when idleness was the most attractive and productive industry. Many a forenoon have I stolen away, preferring to spend thus the most valued part of the day; for I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days, and spent them lavishly”

“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.”

“Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness-the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.”

“Multifarious reading weakens the mind more than doing nothing, for it becomes a necessity, at last, like smoking: and is an excuse for the mind to lie dormant whilst thought is poured in, and runs through, a clear stream over unproductive gravel, on which not even mosses grow. It is the idlest of all idleness, and leaves more of impotency than any other.”

“Idleness gives great advantage to the tempter. Standing waters gather filth.”