Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

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

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

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

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

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages.

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?

Division of labor is a justification for sloth.

In my mind nothing is more abhorrent than a life of ease. None of us has any right to ease. There is no place in civilization for the idler.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

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

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.

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

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.'

I was a hard worker.

I'm always working hard.

Work is not a shame. Laziness is a shame.

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.

The student who secures his coveted leisure and retirement by systematically shirking any labor necessary to man obtains but an ignoble and unprofitable leisure, defrauding himself of the experience which alone can make leisure fruitful.

Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.