Cardinal Richelieu Quotes

People can so easily be tempted by slackness... and by money.

Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.

Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making an effort. Most people believe that they'll wake up some day and find themselves rich. Actually, they've got it half right, because eventually they do wake up.

I think when people get comfortable is when they fall off.

Men fall into a routine when they are tired and slack: it has all the appearance of activity with few of its burdens.

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

There is, in our nature, a disposition to indulgence, a secret desire to escape from labor, which, unless hourly combated, will overcome and destroy the best faculties of our minds and paralyze our most useful powers.

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

I like to do nothing.

You never want to be too comfortable because that's when you start to get complacent and start doing those little stupid things and getting too relaxed.

Trouble Springs From Idleness.

The only way we'd get beaten was if we got a little fat-headed, if we didn't train right, if we had dissension on the squad.

One musts avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness.

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues

Taking it easy is often the prelude to backsliding. Comfort precedes collapse.

There is no curse equal to the curse of idleness. It destroys the man, the group, the people, or the nation who suffer under it.

It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.

Indolent people, whatever taste they may have for society, seek eagerly for pleasure, and find nothing. They have an empty head and seared hearts.

Nothing guarantees more the erosion of character than getting something for nothing

Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.

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

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

One who does not rouse themself when it is time to rise, who, though capable, is full of sloth, whose will and thought are weak, that lazy and idle person will never find their way to true knowledge.

Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues.

What I fear is complacency. When things always become better, people tend to want more for less work.