Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Laziness

Quotes about: Laziness

• It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Credit, Laziness, Virtue

• Our minds are as much given to laziness as our bodies.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mind, Body, Laziness

• Of all our faults, the one we avow most easily is idleness; we persuade ourselves that it is allied to all the peaceable virtues,and as for the others, that it does not destroy them utterly, but only suspends the exercise of their functions.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Exercise, Laziness, Faults

• A readiness to believe ill of others, before we have duly examined it, is the effect of laziness and pride. We are eager to find aculprit, and loath to give ourselves the trouble of examining the crime.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Believe, Pride, Giving

• Idleness and constancy fix the mind to what it finds easy and agreeable. This habit always confines and cramps up our knowledge; and no one has ever taken the trouble to stretch and carry his understanding as far as it could go.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Taken, Knowledge, Understanding

• It is a mighty error to suppose that none but violent and strong passions, such as love and ambition, are able to vanquish the rest. Even idleness, as feeble and languishing as it is, sometimes reigns over them; it usurps the throne and sits paramount over all the designs and actions of our lives, and imperceptibly wastes and destroys all our passions and all our virtues.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Strong, Passion, Ambition

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