Jim Rohn Quotes

It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active.

Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.

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.

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.

My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.

I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.

Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.

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

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.

While the grasse groweth the horse starveth.

The sluggard is a living insensible.

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.

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

Business neglected is business lost.

An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.

Time elaborately thrown away.

Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.

The man who never makes a mistake must get tired of doing nothing.

The essence of decay is inactivity.

What you gain here, you lose on the other side.

What can stars do? Nothing..But sit on their axis!

He who will not when he may, may not when he will.

The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. It is commonly observed, that among soldiers and seamen, though there is much kindness, there is little grief; they see their friend fall without any of that lamentation which is indulged in security and idleness, because they have no leisure to spare from the care of themselves; and whoever shall keep his thoughts equally busy will find himself equally unaffected with irretrievable losses.

The long days seduce all thought away, and we lie like the lizards in the sun, postponing our lives indefinitely.

Everything has its price - and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained... it is impossible to get anything without this price.