Quotes About Idleness Being Positive
Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.
Floyd Dell
Idleness is the parent of psychology.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
Franz Kafka
What fools call wasting time is most often the best investment.
Nassim Taleb
The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
Oscar Wilde
Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.
Albert Camus
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.
George MacDonald
Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Virginia Woolf
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
Søren Kierkegaard
Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure.
Tom Hodgkinson
Quotes About Idleness Being Negative
Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
Philip Stanhope
Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.
Hosea Ballou
Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
Voltaire
Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.
John Quincy Adams
Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.
Henry Ford
Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.
Victor Hugo
Success operates in active moments and not in idleness.
Oscar Bimpong
Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
Jean Paul
Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all Virtues.
Benjamin Franklin
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.”
Miguel de Cervantes
Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil’s home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.
Anne Baxter
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