idle Quotes

“Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.”

“To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.”

“Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.”

“It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.”

“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.”

“To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.”

“To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.”

“To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.”

“I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.”

“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.”