Bono Quotes

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

I've always believed that if you don't stay moving, they will throw dirt on you.

I hadn't done anything in six years; I was just vegetating.

Human nature is above all things lazy.

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

I've never been one to stay in a complacent place where I just let the grass grow around me.

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

America can't go sideways anymore.

The vigorous man industriously striving for the improvement of his condition acts neither more nor less than the lethargic man who sluggishly takes things as they come. For to do nothing and to be idle are also action, they too determine the course of events.

If a man has come to that point where he is no content that he says; I do not want to know any more, or do any more or be any more, he is in a state in which he ought to be changed into a mummy.

The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.

My ambition is handicapped by laziness

I'm just a lazy boy. I'd rather sit in my recliner and act.

Unless you go forward then you are going back.

I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can be inert and study your navel, and gradually fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying.

To wait idly is the worst of conditions.

If you rest, you rust.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation.

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

Movement isn't progress.

Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.

Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

History is moving the furniture around in the house of mankind just about everywhere but the U.S.A. Things have changed, except here, where people come and go through the rooms of state, and everything looks shabbier by the day, and lethargy eats away at the upholstery like an acid fog, and the walls reverberate with meaningless oratory.