Anne Baxter Quotes

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

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

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.'

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.

Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle

I just have work to do; I just do it.

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

I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.

It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity.

I can't sit around doing nothing. If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.

I like challenging myself. I'm not a person who likes not to work.

I come from the kind of family where work is work; my parents always taught me that it's better to be doing something than sitting around doing nothing.

I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.

Do the day's work.

The more my people work, the less vices they will have

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

Our own laziness taxes us more than kings...

First off, you always gotta get your work done.

Go to work every day, be the first one in and the last one to leave, and you'll know that you've done everything in your power to make your life better.

My biggest fault? I guess it's a lack of patience - not when I'm working, but when I'm not working.

I start getting bored and misbehaving if I don't work hard. It's fine when you're younger - you go out a lot and muck around with your mates and drink and stuff - but I'm a bit over that now.

You change things by focusing your energy on doing your job well.

Remove the temptation of idleness and Cupid's bow is useless.