To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
Idleness Quotes
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Millions are idle, but it’s comforting to know that most of them have jobs.
The thought that leads to no action is not thought – it is dreaming.
Those who are satisfied to stand still should not complain when others pass them.
Prolonged idleness paralyzes initiative.
The only nation capable of licking the world is stagnation.
Stand still and silently watch the world go by – and it will.
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments.
To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others and his idleness from himself.
