Browsing Quotes With Tag: laziness (9)
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Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
Speaker: Benjamin FranklinSource: http://findquotes.com/Posted: 02 Jul 2009 at 11:18 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The chief vice of many people consists not in doing evil, but in permitting it.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:12 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
One breaks [his] priesthood covenant by transgressing commandments – but also by leaving undone his duties. Accordingly, to break this covenant one needs only to do nothing.
Speaker: Spencer W. KimballPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:13 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I don’t do anything for fun, I just have fun at what I do. Time is a stewardship and my goal is simply not to waste any.
Speaker: Dallin H. OaksPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:19 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is the harvest and not the Master that will accuse the slothful servant.
Speaker: AnonymousSource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:38 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Too many vacations, vacations lasting too long, too many movies, too much TV, too much video-game playing, too much undisciplined leisure time in which a person continually takes the course of least resistance – this kind of thing gradually wastes a life, wastes a family. It ensures that one’s capacities stay dormant, God-given talents remain undeveloped, the mind and spirit become lethargic, and the heart is unfulfilled. Such a life gives no service, makes no contribution, enjoys no larger vision, and short of repentance and change, it slips down to spiritual decay and death.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:35 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
Speaker: George Bernard ShawPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:06 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the labor of thinking.
Speaker: Thomas EdisonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:02 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.
Speaker: anonymousPosted: 21 Nov 2007 at 9:11 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!