Sloth Quotes

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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.

Satisfaction consists in the cutting off of the causes of the sin. Thus, fasting is the proper antidote to lust; prayer to pride, to envy, anger and sloth; alms to covetousness.

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.

Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.

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.

These are the Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice, Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Sloth. These are the seven deadly sins: venality, paranoia, insecurity, excess, carnality, contempt, boredom.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Sloth and Silence are a Fool's Virtues

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.

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.

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

Prosperity engenders sloth.

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

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

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

Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.

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

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.

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

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy.

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.

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

Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.

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

Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed.

As to the Seven Deadly Sins, I deplore Pride, Wrath, Lust, Envy and Greed. Gluttony and Sloth I pretty much plan my day around.

From exertion come wisdom and purity; from sloth ignorance and sensuality.

The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable.

Sloths move at the speed of congressional debate but with greater deliberation and less noise.

Everybody knows how much time Fang spends in bed. A local store that gives a 30 days' trial on mattresses gives Fang only 15 days.