Top Sloth and Laziness Quotes By Stoics, Christians, and Contemporary Wise Philosophers

Top Sloth and Laziness Quotes By Stoics, Christians, and Contemporary Wise Philosophers
Let’s enter the world of Sloth and laziness. One of the 7 deadly sins with Diligence as its counterpart.
Quotes are powerful as they give us a glimpse of wisdom that has withstood the sands of time. In this video, we're taking a look at Top Sloth Quotes By Stoics, Christians, and Contemporary Wise Philosophers
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Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
- Jules Renard.
Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.
- Benjamin Franklin.
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
- Quintilian.
Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
- Cato the Younger.
There are times when one is tempted to say that the great, sprawling, lethargic sin of Sloth is the oldest and greatest of the sins and the parent of all the rest.
- Dorothy L. Sayers.
Prosperity engenders sloth.
- Livy.
A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.
- George Stillman Hillard.
To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.
- Francis Bacon.
The sloth lives his life upside down. He is perfectly comfortable that way. If the blood rushes to his head, nothing happens because there is nothing to work on.
- Will Cuppy.
You need not be proud of me…. I’m only being active till you can be again-it isn’t such a great desire on my part to serve theworld and I’ll fall back into habits of sloth quite easily!
- Eleanor Roosevelt.
Sloth is the fastest-growing lifestyle movement in the world, and that’s because it is completely doable. If you embrace sloth, it’s the last thing you’ll ever have to do again.
- Wendy Wasserstein.
Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. The elephant hauls himself from the mud. In the same way drag yourself out of your sloth.
- Gautama Buddha.
As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.
- Yann Martel.
Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.
- Amos Bronson Alcott.
Don’t yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.
- Horace.
Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not to suffer.
- Niccolo Machiavelli.
This is the real secret of life- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it’s play.
- Alan Watts.
I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
- Theodore Roosevelt.
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
- William James.
The sluggard does not plow in the autumn; he will seek at harvest and have nothing.
- Proverbs 20:4.
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,
- Colossians 3:23.
The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.
- Proverbs 21:25.
The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside! I shall be killed in the streets!
- Proverbs 22:13.
The sluggard buries his hand in the dish and will not even bring it back to his mouth.
- Proverbs 19:24.
But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
- 1 Timothy 5:8.
Let´s finish strong with a couple of Stoic Quotes about Sloth.
The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
- Marcus Aurelius.
Difficulties strengthen the mind as labor does the body.
- Seneca.
The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths.
- Epictetus.
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
- Seneca.
Others have been in poor health from overindulgence and high living, before exile has provided strength, forcing them to live a more vigorous life.
- Musonius Rufus.
The first step: Don’t be anxious…The second step: Concentrate on what you have to do. Fix your eyes on it. Remind yourself that your task is to be a good human being…Then do it, without hesitation.
- Marcus Aurelius.
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
- Epictetus.
This is the mark of perfection of character - to spend each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, laziness, or any pretending.
- Marcus Aurelius.
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