Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.

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

The lazy manage to keep up with the earth's rotation just as well as the industrious.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.

I think the man who eats the bread of idleness is under a certain obligation to speak well of labor.

Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.

He who is idle shall not eat the bread nor wear the garments of the laborer

It would indeed be a sad misfortune if man were released from the necessity of work and struggle, for it is a well-known fact that organs which do not function atrophy; and according to the old saying, 'Idleness is the devil's workshop.'

Shall we keep our hands in our bosom, or stretch ourselves on our beds of laziness, while all the world about us is hard at work, in pursuing the designs of its creation?

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.

Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.

It is idleness that is the curse of man - not labour. Idleness eats the heart out of men as of nations, and consumes them as rust does iron.

Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

I've only had two rules: Do all you can and do it the best you can. It's the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something.

A lazy man works twice as hard. My mother told that to me, and now I say it to my kids. If you're writing an essay, keep it in the lines and in the margins so you don't have to do it over.

Should you be so unfortunate as to suppose you are a genius, and that 'things will come to you,' it would be well to undeceive yourself as soon as possible. Make up your mind that industry must be the price of all you obtain, and at once begin to pay down.

I didn't work hard to sit down and not work.

You'd just die if you put your head to the grindstone.