Henry Ford Quotes

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

I'm not a fan of idleness, except in small doses.

Free time is the enemy of progress

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.

Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.

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

Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise.

If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.

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

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

I would rather be sick than idle.

the less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.

In works of labour or of skillI would be busy too:For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do.

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.

If you're always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing. -Kelsier

I love to work, although sometimes I can spend whole days doing nothing more than picking the lint off the carpet and talking to my mother on the phone.

The devil finds work for idle hands.

I do not wish to be any more busy with my hands than is necessary.

Rather do what is nothing to the purpose than be idle; that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot, when fliers scape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and the self-made sepulchre of a living man.

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

I didn't work hard to sit down and not work.

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

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