Quotes about Idleness

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Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live. — Criss Jami, Healology
if you cannot find the distinctive opportunities you want, you can create the distinctive opportunities you want but you — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
An idle mind is a devil’s workshop and I am prone to renting out my mind to the first bidder. — Anurag Shourie, Half A Shadow
Nobody does nothing. Everybody does something, sometimes nothing is something in the idle man's world. — Michael Bassey Johnson
If your passion does not keep you sleepless, you can't be a good beginner. When passion itches, a great hand scratches.. — Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Boredom is the Devil's delight. — Lindsey Rietzsch, The Happy Lady
Busy hands achieve more than idle tongues. — Matshona Dhliwayo
We may regard certain days as free days. Free days are however fee days. We will pay later — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, The Untapped Wonderer in You: Dare to Do the Undone
Then turn your eyes back on me,and tell me that Cathy and I are still children to be treated with condescension, and are — V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic
Idleness for me is not a giving up on life but a spirited grabbing hold of it. — Tom Hodgkinson
Labour-saving devices just make us try to cram more pointless activities into each day, rather than doing the important — Tom Hodgkinson
A conclusion I’ve come to at the Idler is that it starts with retreating from work but it’s really about making work int — Tom Hodgkinson
Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong — Robert Louis Stevenson
So many people die though they live, and it is not as if they don’t have life; they only refuse to keep breathing! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Success operates in active moments and not in idleness. — Oscar Bimpong
If you think of something, do it.Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that. — Lydia Davis
My greatest urge in life is to do nothing. It's not even an absence of motivation, a lack, for I do have a strong urge: — Geoff Dyer, Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence
If only you can add just one great and distinctive thing to your life each day, you shall surely not just live and leave — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I never did anything in life to anyone's imagination. — Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
They call it "business" because it does not become successful by a person's "idleness". Go get busy if you want to do bu — Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes