Baltasar Gracian Quotes

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.

Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.

Sometimes, the hardest habit to break is the habit of doing nothing beyond the necessary.

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues

Seven national crimes: 1. I don't think. 2. I don't know. 3. I don't care. 4. I am too busy. 5. I leave well enough alone. 6. I have no time to read and find out. 7. I am not interested.

The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.

But avoidance allows you to believe that you're making all kinds of strides when you're not.

Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.

The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep.

Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.

I can be a lazy slob.

I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

Because you can be lazy if you don't know the truth.

Of all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful a tooth as indolence.

America is in a state of somnolence. It's an avoidance of paranoia through ignoring reality.

Indecision and reveries are the anesthetics of constructive action.

Safety and comfort comes with complacency, and that's never a good place to be working from.

I kind of waited for opportunities to be handed to me. I think I was lazy, and when things didn't go right, I just said, 'Oh well.'

I don't want to be the guy who sits on a front porch with a mint julep in his hand and rocks his life away.

You can't just become complacent or lazy, or then the decline happens.

You never want to be too comfortable because that's when you start to get complacent and start doing those little stupid things and getting too relaxed.

The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have got the least of; and that is judgment.

Nobody has ever thought himself to death. The chief danger confronting us is not age. It is laziness, sloth, routine, stupidity, - forcing their way in like wind through the shutters, seeping into the cellar like swamp water.