George Whitefield Quotes

Division of labor is a justification for sloth.

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

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

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

I would rather be sick than idle.

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

There is no curse equal to the curse of idleness. It destroys the man, the group, the people, or the nation who suffer under it.

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?

The Book of Proverbs deals very hard blows against sluggards, and Christian ministers do well frequently to denounce the great sin of idleness, which is the mother of a huge family of sins.

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.

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

I'm better off working as opposed to lying around.

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

I think the man who eats the bread of idleness is under a certain obligation to speak well of labor.

Believe me, I do not like idleness but work.

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.

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

Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.

Work is not a shame. Laziness is a shame.

Bee not idle and you shall not bee longing.

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.

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.

Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.