Samuel Smiles Quotes

The thing is, I really like working. If I sit around too much, I get really bad anxiety.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Financially, I'm fine. But it's good to work. I'm not capable of doing nothing.

If I am not moving I get bored very easily.

I get very antsy when I'm not occupied.

If I lounge around for too long, I get really bored. I have to be doing something.

When there's not much to do, you find things to do that get you in trouble.

I just can't imagine not having something to do.

It's boredom. No other reason than that.

I'm a creature who bores, easily. I could never do one job, for the rest of my life.

The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.

Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever

Keep always busy so that the devil will find you always engaged.

When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do.

In this troublesome world, we are never quite satisfied. When you were here, I thought you hindered me some in attending to business; but now, having nothing but business---no variety---it has grown exceedingly tasteless to me. I hate to sit down and direct documents, and I hate to stay in this old room by myself.

Flee idleness... for no one is more exposed to such temptations than he who has nothing to do.

Absence of occupation is not rest.

Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment; for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease; for no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could be tempted; but of all employments, bodily labor is the most useful, and of the greatest benefit for driving away the Devil.

Judge said, what you got in your defense son? Fifty-seven channels and nothing on.

I stay out too late, got nothing in my brain.

The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.

There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.

I can spend a lot of time on the internet as a substitute for TV. This is part of the reason why I'm not a good girlfriend - you can't sit down with me and watch a movie. I hate being strapped down to stay with something.

There is nothing I fear so much as idleness, the want of occupation, inactivity, the lethargy of the faculties; when the body is idle, the spirit suffers painfully.