Sophie Kerr Quotes

It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to be a knave.

Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man.

Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.

You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America.

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.

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

Moral character has now some influence in our elections, but not that place which it deserves. The law of public opinion excludes confirmed sots, and persons judicially convicted of high crimes and misdemeanors against the State; but it ought to render the election of all profane swearers, notorious Sabbath breakers, seducers, slanderers, prodigals and riotous persons, as well as the advocates of dueling, impracticable.

He who is educated and eloquent must not measure his saintliness merely by his fluency.

I wish I was more industrious, but I don't necessarily have that drive.

Believe me, I do not like idleness but work.

Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.

Work is not a shame. Laziness is a shame.

There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other, a vice.

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.

Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.

So long as idleness is quite shut out from our lives, all the sins of wantonness, softness, and effeminacy are prevented; and there is but little room for temptation.

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?

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

Virtue's guard is labor; ease, her sleep.

You must work and should not be lazy if you want to be happy.

Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.

Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person that is temperate, industrious, just and valiant, and who uses all his virtues for the public good, it shows a great and lofty mind.

In work there is no shame; shame is in the idleness.

Do not think that saintliness comes from occupation; it depends rather on what one is. The kind of work we do does not make us holy, but we may make it holy.

The Book of Proverbs deals very hard blows against sluggards, and Christian ministers do well frequently to denounce the great sin of idleness, which is the mother of a huge family of sins.