Sloth Quotes

• Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Overcoming, Diligence

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• You need not be proud of me.... I'm only being active till you can be again--it isn't such a great desire on my part to serve theworld and I'll fall back into habits of sloth quite easily!

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Marriage, Fall, Desire

  Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor Roosevelt (1982). “Love, Eleanor: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends”, Doubleday Books

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

  Jules Renard

  Running, Motivation, Business

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• Every move a sloth makes is with purpose, which is more than most of us can say about 90% of the time.

  Ann Burton

  Moving, Purpose

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I am overcome by my own amazing sloth...Can you please forgive me and believe that it is really because I want to do something well that I don't do it at all?

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Believe, Forgive Me, Forgiving

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• Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Educational, Keys, Rust

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.249

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• Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.

  Cato the Younger

  Soul, Decay, Body

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• We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

  Quintilian

  Life, Excuse, Difficulty

  "Institutio Oratoria". Textbook by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, I. 12,

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• From exertion come wisdom and purity; from sloth ignorance and sensuality.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wisdom, Ignorance, Action

  Henry David Thoreau (2010). “Walden”, p.205, Bibliolis Books

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• I love to sleep. My astrological sign is the sloth.

  Julie Schumacher

  Sleep

  Julie Schumacher (2012). “The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls”, p.50, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Laziness, Virtuous, Despicable

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• If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.

  Samuel Johnson

  Advice, Solitude, Laziness

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (letter to Boswell, 27 Oct. 1779)

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• O Lord and Master of my life, take from me the spirit of sloth, meddling, lust of power, and idle talk. But give rather the spirit of chastity, humility, patience and love to Thy servant. Yea, O Lord and King, grant me to see my own sins and not to judge my brother; for Thou art blessed unto ages of ages. Amen.

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Brother, Art, Kings

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• My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.

  Douglas Adams

  Fall, Tree, Pieces

  Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.110, Del Rey

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• Sloth is the desire for ease, even at the expense of doing the known will of God. Whatever we do in life requires effort. Everything we do is to be a means of salvation. The slothful person is unwilling to do what God wants because of the effort it takes to do it. Sloth becomes a sin when it slows down and even brings to a halt the energy we must expend in using the means to salvation.

  John Hardon

  Mean, Effort, Desire

  John A. Hardon (1989). “Pocket Catholic Catechism”, Image

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• Avoid sloth, bad company, dangerous conversations, and games; remembering that time passes and never returns, that you have a soul, and that if you lose your soul, you lose all.

  Leonard of Port Maurice

  Games, Soul, Return

  St. Leonard of Port Maurice (1970). “The Hidden Treasure: Holy Mass”, p.106, TAN Books

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• It's a shame that creativity and sloth look exactly the same.

  Louise Penny

  Creativity, Looks, Shame

  Louise Penny (2015). “The Chief Inspector Gamache Series”, p.180, Macmillan

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

  Ovid

  Moving, Water, Body

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• The sloth lives his life upside down. He is perfectly comfortable that way. If the blood rushes to his head, nothing happens because there is nothing to work on.

  Will Cuppy

  Animal, Blood, Pet

  Will Cuppy (1944). “The Great Bustard and Other People: Containing: How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes and How to Become Extinct”

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• Sloth and Silence are a Fool's Virtues

  Benjamin Franklin

  Silence, Fool, Virtue

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• Sloth is the fastest-growing lifestyle movement in the world, and that's because it is completely doable. If you embrace sloth, it's the last thing you'll ever have to do again.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Movement, World, Growing

  Wendy Wasserstein (2005). “Sloth: The Seven Deadly Sins”, p.19, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. The elephant hauls himself from the mud. In the same way drag yourself out of your sloth.

  Gautama Buddha

  Elephants, Mud, Way

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• The very soul of the slothful does effectually but lie drowsing in his body, and the whole man is totally given up to his senses.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Lying, Men, Soul

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• To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.

  Francis Bacon

  Use, Laziness, Too Much

  1625 Essays, no.50,'Of Studies'.

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• As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.

  Yann Martel

  Sound, Hearing, Deaf

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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