J. Reuben Clark Quotes

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

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

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

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.

It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.

Trouble Springs From Idleness.

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.

Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger.

Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.

Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.

Idleness ruins the constitution

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

Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.

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

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

I know how deeply slothful I am.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

I'm a lazy creature when I'm not acting.

Of all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful a tooth as indolence.

He who is idle shall not eat the bread nor wear the garments of the laborer

If you don't have to get out of bed and do something every morning, that's kind of a curse.

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

I don't like sitting around and not doing anything because that's the easiest way to get complacent and get lazy.

I'm just generally lazy.

The lazy are always wanting to do something.