Benjamin Whichcote Quotes

Flee idleness... for no one is more exposed to such temptations than he who has nothing to do.

That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.

Keep always busy so that the devil will find you always engaged.

The devil finds work for idle hands.

My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.

There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on education. If you take those elements together with a free-enterprise system, you've got the chemistry for a lot of industry.

I can't sit around doing nothing. If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.

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.

Remove the temptation of idleness and Cupid's bow is useless.

In theory I can do almost anything; certainly I have been told how. In practice I do as little as possible. I pretend to myself that I would be quite happy in a hermit's cave, living on gruel, if someone else would make the gruel. Gruel, like so many other things, is beyond me.

I would rather be sick than idle.

Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.

Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not cured then, it can never be cured.

Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle

It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So for me, I would always have an excuse, you know, to go - quit early, go to a museum, you know. So I do everything I can to make myself remember this is a job. I keep a schedule.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

I only really work when I want to.

I'm better off working as opposed to lying around.

We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.

I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.

It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity.

My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don't want to do it.