Jeremy Taylor Quotes

Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.

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

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.

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily shot.

Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

I guess maybe another gift I have is a great work ethic.

I've worked hard, every single day since I left school. I think I have a Protestant work ethic.

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.

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

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

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober

Work is not a shame. Laziness is a shame.

Hard workers are usually honest; industry lifts them above temptation.

I would rather be sick than idle.

There is not a thing on the face of the earth that I abhor so much as idleness or idle people.

An army is strengthened by labor and enervated by idleness.

There was no one around me who didn't work hard.

It's about working when nobody's watching.

And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

There is, in our nature, a disposition to indulgence, a secret desire to escape from labor, which, unless hourly combated, will overcome and destroy the best faculties of our minds and paralyze our most useful powers.

It is certain that, because the negligent do not struggle against self, they never achieve peace of soul or do so tardily, and never possess any virtue in its fullness, while the energetic and industrious make notable advances on both fronts.

Across professions, consistency is a direct product of work ethic.