Henry David Thoreau Quotes

A man who does nothing never has time to do anything

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

I've seen guys sit the whole day doing nothing, and I hate it when people are unproductive. I don't like a guy who sits on the couch all day.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

Trouble Springs From Idleness.

The lazy are always wanting to do something.

Bee not idle and you shall not bee longing.

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.

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.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work when there is no definite object of any kind. To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing.

Laziness means more work in the long run.

If we were not called upon to work in order to survive, we might simply lie around all day doing nothing.

I would rather be sick than idle.

Obviously, there is little you can learn from doing nothing.

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

There is probably no greater idler than myself. And I would consider myself a lazy-bones if I did not write so many volumes, and if I did not admire my diligence once I begin writing.

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

The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.

What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?

The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.

The slothful is the servant of the counters.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

There is a - deep down, underneath all the work I do, I think there's a laziness in me.