Quotes about idle

If you are idle, ask “why?” If you feel like life is boring for you, ask “why?” When you get into a disappointment, ask “why?” Even if you come out of all torments and disturbances, ask “why?

When you come across an excellent invention, what it should tell you is that someone used most of his sleeping time as his thinking time... and he kept doing the same until his good became better and his better became the best!

True blessing comes in the dress of sweats, never delaying to wave bye to the excuses and procrastination. True blessing lies in hard work!

Static people don’t fall! You fell because you were either climbing, or running. This is a sign that you are on track. Don’t stop where you fall; rise up and do it again!

Opportunity never arrives, it only walks by. Chance never comes, it only knocks at the door. Never think the success will jump into your palms; you must work for it!

They call it "business" because it does not become successful by a person's "idleness". Go get busy if you want to do business; but be busy for the right reasons!

There is no harvest without hard work, therefore never expect chance to solve your problems of abject need for you. You must take deliberate actions!

Stop chasing another busy self to become. Your real self is idle waiting to be lived... Go, take up your real self!

If I am to choose between "sleeping" and "being part of a leadership that pursues irrelevant agenda", I will choose "sleeping". Chasing of irrelevant agenda by a leadership sect is what made Nelson Mandela to call it "Long Walk to Freedom!

There are two types of patience. One is exercised in hard work and the other in idleness. Patience with hard work is the one that moves mountains. Patience in idleness moves nothing, not even cobwebs.

We haven't remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time. Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives . . . our vicarious way to feel alive.

Put into actions what you dream of achieving. It'll amaze you to discover that you can do more than you ever dream of. Just give it a try! Never be idle, take actions now!

Idle hands are the devils greatest tools. But it’ll be good to notice that the tools sharpened by idle heads. You are idle because that’s the job your mind gave you!

I no longer think that laziness is all about being idle. I now know when I become lazy- when I stop learning new things, and cease to grow.

God doesn’t want us to sit idle and simply enjoy His presence, he wants a close relationship with Him

Because of self-doubt, the fear of failure, or laziness, most people usually bite off way less than they can chew.

If during the day, a person did not do anything about his purpose and calling, he did nothing at all

Having faith does not mean you should be idle and expecting manna to fall from above. You must get up and do something!

Joblessness does not necessarily mean idleness

Gloating is a superficial glowing, floating is an idle flowing, and bloatedness is the paralysis of blowing up; because silent movement results in loud victories.

Bear it in mind that people who do not take actions are not and cannot be leaders. Leadership is action.

Nobody does nothing. Everybody does something, sometimes nothing is something in the idle man's world.

When you are fired because of laziness, dare to fire back with the spirit of enthusiasm. Rise up at the same time and at the same place that you have fallen. You can’t give up!

An idle mind is a devil’s workshop and I am prone to renting out my mind to the first bidder.

It’s two things you either choose to take risks through storms and win after the hail or you remain idle and die idle. Once laziness is deliberate failure is not an accident!

There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements.

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.

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

God does not require from you empty words or idle conversations

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

Stop waiting and start working. Stop wishing and start walking.

I am well known by my friends to be a workaholic - to their often justifiable annoyance. I am therefore keenly aware that such behavior is at best slightly pathological, and certainly in no sense makes one a better person.

If I was your mirror, you would look for me more, than you do me.

Idleness is a form of passivity in an active universe.