Charles Spurgeon Quotes

Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

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.

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.

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?

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly.

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.

Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.

When I don't feel like working, I don't.

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.

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

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 would rather be sick than idle.

I am not the only one that condemns the idle; for once when I was going to give our minister a pretty long list of the sins of one of our people that he was asking after, I began with, "He's dreadfully lazy." "That's enough," said the old gentleman; " all sorts of sins are in that one.

Division of labor is a justification for sloth.

Sluggish idleness--the nurse of sin.

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

The devil finds work for idle hands.

In work there is no shame; shame is in the idleness.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

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.

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

I can be a lazy slob.

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.