George C. Marshall Quotes

Inaction saps the vigor of the mind.

You haven’t done anything wrong. You just haven’t done anything, and that’s what’s wrong.

The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.

Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.

Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.

I'm a lazy creature when I'm not acting.

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

Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.

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

I don't like sitting around and not doing anything because that's the easiest way to get complacent and get lazy.

Trouble Springs From Idleness.

The lazy are always wanting to do something.

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues

Obviously, there is little you can learn from doing nothing.

Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.

Worst is the one who knows better and does nothing.

The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.

Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.

Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.

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

Sloth is sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good...it is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as to draw him away entirely from good deeds.

Sluggish idleness--the nurse of sin.

Failure is not about insecurity. It's about lack of execution.

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