Orison Swett Marden Quotes

Sometimes, the hardest habit to break is the habit of doing nothing beyond the necessary.

Inaction saps the vigor of the mind.

The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.

Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.

To wait idly is the worst of conditions.

I'll probably make loads of plans, and then just sit around on my bottom all day long and do nothing.

Professionally, I have no major goals. That's partly because I'm really flaky. I want things, but I don't go after them. I'd rather they be placed in my lap.

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

Nobody has ever thought himself to death. The chief danger confronting us is not age. It is laziness, sloth, routine, stupidity, - forcing their way in like wind through the shutters, seeping into the cellar like swamp water.

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide.

The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.

I spent a lot of time waiting for things to happen to me, which is more or less as pathetic as it sounds.

The greatest mistake a person can make is doing nothing.

The greatest failure of all is the failure to act when action is needed

I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.

The one path that never works is the most common one: doing nothing at all.

I'm just a lazy boy. I'd rather sit in my recliner and act.

The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep.

He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.

The worst thing we can do is to do nothing.

I am lazy.

I hadn't done anything in six years; I was just vegetating.

I'm incredibly lazy!

I'm a lazy, lazy girl.

Human nature is above all things lazy.