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" Quotes and Sayings About idle

There are two ways of being happy — we may either diminish our wants or augment our means — either will do, the result is the same; and it is for each man to decide for himself, and do that which happens to be the easiest. If you are idle or sick or poor, however hard it may be to diminish your wants, it will be harder to augment your means.

Happy Want Same Mean
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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.

Idle Short Road People
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As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you're doing good in my book.

About Being Book Doing
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Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

Day Golf Idleness Round
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Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

Beginning Crown All.Of Idleness
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If you don't love what you're doing with unbridled passion and enthusiasm, you're not going to succeed when you hit obstacles.

Doing Enthusiasm Hit Love
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

Belief Flesh Wiser Blood
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
Idleness Men Sin Some
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Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

Being Evil Far Good
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A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

Big People Idle Less
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

Deliberation How Idle Life
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Cleanliness is next to idleness.

Cleanliness Next Idleness
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Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.
Tomorrow Idlers Work Fools
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Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.
Confronted Unbridled Desire Tragedy
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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Acts Idle Infinitely Knowledge
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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

Coat He Himself Mail
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For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.
Always Finds Hands Idle
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

Labor Invisible Absorb Idle
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I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert in a ton of chain mail for Ridley any day of the week. He's an amazing director and I can't wait to see the long version.

Amazing Any Back Been
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I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.

Been Before Done Film
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As human beings, you must work hard. You can’t afford to be idle, get busy at all times.

Human being Work hard Afford Idle
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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Sure conviction Reason Good minds
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Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.

Work Required Sacred idleness
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Our youth must be steadfast and take advantage of the benefits of modern civilization. Do not fall prey to idleness for it shall be a curse to you and to succeeding generations. You must set yourselves us as examples of determination and hard work. Plan your time and use both your physical and mental powers purposefully and productively.

Our youth Advantage Modern civilization Idleness
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A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been.

Man Never Idle Advantage
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The Californians are an idle, thriftless people, and can make nothing for themselves. The country abounds in grapes, yet they buy, at a great price, bad wine made in Boston.

Thriftless People Californians Nothing
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

Doubt Greatly Increased Machinery
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
Identity Idle Personal Requires
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Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace

Works Disgrace Idleness
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There is no such thing as free time. Time comes with a price. You either pay for it with good deeds that will benefit you in the afterlife or with idleness and sins that will cause you great regret when you stand…

Such thing Free time Price Pay
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

All universal Moral Principle Idle fancies
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You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.

Bridle passion With logic Justify Law courts
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History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.

History Gossip Truth Lost
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Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art.

Idle Food Thoughts Art
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Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.

Fortunately Something Harvested Idle
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Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.

Idleness Kisses Sweet Stolen
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Focus on positive things to make great achievements the time you spend on idle talks and running people down could be used wisely.

Focus on Positive things Great achievements You spend
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God helps those who work, not those who are idle. No one helps an inactive person, but one who joins in the labor. The good God himself will bring...work to perfection.

God Helps Work Person
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Busy opinion is an idle fool.

Busy Opinion Idle fool
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Take care-there is no force more powerful than that of an unbridled imagination.

Take care Force Powerful Imagination
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

Diligence Fortune Idleness Goal
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