Leah Remini Quotes

If you don't have to get out of bed and do something every morning, that's kind of a curse.

Men fall into a routine when they are tired and slack: it has all the appearance of activity with few of its burdens.

The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.

Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.

It is idleness that is the curse of man - not labour. Idleness eats the heart out of men as of nations, and consumes them as rust does iron.

It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

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

This was in '79. I got pretty restless there, sitting around with a lot of people sitting around smoking cigarettes and talking about films, but nobody really doing anything.

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

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

Human nature is above all things lazy.

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

Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

Men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

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

Nero fiddled while Rome burned, but [Calvin] Coolidge only snores.

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.

Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field.

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.

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.

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

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues

When you're comfortable, you're not necessarily inclined to care about things that are contributing to your comfort. It's difficult.