Quotes About Sloth

Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer. —NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI, The Prince

All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer." –Niccolò Machiavelli

All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer." –Niccolò Machiavelli 16th-century Italian philosopher, dubbed "the father of modern political science," author of The Prince

Sloth is the great enemy -- the inspirer of cowardice, irresolution, self-pitying grief, and trivial, hairsplitting doubts. Sloth may also be a psychological cause of sickness. It is tempting to relax from our duties, take refuge in ill-health and hide under a nice warm blanket.

Sienna frowned. "Pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth." Langdon was impressed. "You know Latin." "I grew up Catholic. I know sin.

To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar . . . . Crafty men condemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.

Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.

Human beings are the laziest creatures in the history of creation. We would rather not do anything if we could avoid it.

I have never done a stroke of work in my life.

Lazy people always work harder than anyone else; they're so eager to get through and lie down again.

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.

I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that the human race had unfortunately invented for itself.

For the lazy, all work is difficult.

As if sloths were parading out of her ears.

Stephen came on deck reflecting with satisfaction upon his sloth, now a parlour-boarder with the Irish Franciscans at Rio, and a secret drinker of the altar-wine.

Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.

I'm just lazy.

As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.

and the three-toed sloth, such a beautiful example of the miracle of life, reminded me of God.

Loafing needs no explanation and is its own excuse.

Implicit in sloth is the unwillingness to exert oneself in the performance of duty because of the sacrifice and effort required.

Înclinarea spre lene - desfrâul sufletelor poetice.

Yet in my experience, when left to their own devices people will get up to one of two things: nothing much, and no good.

I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.