Maria W. Stewart Quotes

Believe me, I do not like idleness but work.

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.

I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.

I wish I was more industrious, but I don't necessarily have that drive.

I'm not the kind of guy who wants to basically collect money and do nothing.

I work like a dog when I have to, but when I'm not working, I get terribly lazy and could sit around all day.

I like people who work hard.

You must obey this now for a law, that he that will not work shall not eat (except by sickness he be disabled). For the labors of thirty or forty honest and industrious men shall not be consumed to maintain a hundred and fifty idle loiterers.

Work is not a shame. Laziness is a shame.

I can get lazy. I don't think I'm a very driven person. When I have work, I work very hard. But when I don't work, I really don't do anything. I could easily just fade away.

The only time a lazy man ever succeeds is when he tries to do nothing.

I would rather be sick than idle.

I'm pretty lazy. My wife always says, "you're the laziest, most successful Olympian I've ever seen." How does that make sense? Honestly, if I have downtime, I'm really, really good at not doing anything.

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

Shall we keep our hands in our bosom, or stretch ourselves on our beds of laziness, while all the world about us is hard at work, in pursuing the designs of its creation?

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

In New York, one must collapse to be indolent.

The classes that wash most are those that work least.

I just hate people who are lazy. To be on my team, you have to have energy and a sense of wanting to learn. That really excites me.

Am I a slacker? I can be a slacker. When I was in college, most people got summer jobs for college or did research during college. I went home and watched TV the whole day for three months; it was really awesome.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.