It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
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.
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
I think it must be awful not to work. My only point in being idle is to rest so that I can work more... I'm only unhappy when I'm not working.
A productive employee who is kept busy working at his or her job is far more likely to be happy at that job and less likely to look for employment elsewhere.
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.