Indolence Quotes

“Why is it a man can never seem to buckle down and train himself to indolence and stupidity when he can see what sanctuary they offer from toil and pain?”

“Any church that is overly emphasizing the role of miracles is encouraging his members to be indolent.”

“Miracle centered gospel brings about the culture of indolence and insolence upon the country.”

“The secret of the whole matter is that a habit is not the mere tendency to repeat a certain act, nor is it established by the mere repetition of the act. Habit is a fixed tendency to react or respond in a certain way to a given stimulus; and the formation of habit always involves the two elements, the stimulus and the response or reaction. The indolent lad goes to school not in response to any stimulus in the school itself, but to the pressure of his father's will; when that stimulus is absent, the reaction as a matter of course does not occur.”

“Indolence is a delightful but distressing state. We must be doing something to be happy.”

“Pain indolence sterility endless ennui have also their lesson for you.”

“Employment... is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered the mother of misery.”

“Wealth ... and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence and the other of meanness and vicious-ness and both of discontent.”

“Good-nature, or what is often considered as such, is the most selfish of all the virtues: it is nine times out of ten mere indolence of disposition.”

“There is a case and a strong case for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns us.”