Charles Spurgeon Quotes

I would rather be sick than idle.

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

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.

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

Bee not idle and you shall not bee longing.

I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages.

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.

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.

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

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.

I don't have a good work ethic. I have a real casual relationship with hours.

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

Our own laziness taxes us more than kings...

Believe me, I do not like idleness but work.

I'm not a particularly disciplined person in terms of my work habits.

Free time is the enemy of progress

Work is not a shame. Laziness is a shame.

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

There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other, a vice.

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.

I kind of try to resist working a lot. I'm not a very disciplined worker.

Laziness is contagious just like hard work is. I didn't give myself an opportunity to be lazy and I didn't surround myself with people who are lazy.

Be ashamed to catch yourself idle.

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

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