Top Sloth Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Sloth quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Wendy Wasserstein
Sloth is the fastest-growing lifestyle movement in the world, and that's because it is completely doable. If you embrace sloth, it's the last thing you'll ever have to do again.
- Wendy Wasserstein
Collection: Sloth
Image of James Lee Burke
To misuse one's talent, to be cavalier about it, to set it aside because of fear or sloth is unpardonable.
- James Lee Burke
Collection: Sloth
Image of Maureen Lipman
Are you sitting comfortably? Then get up. This is no time for sloth.
- Maureen Lipman
Collection: Sloth
Image of Michael Flanders
A Bradypus or Sloth am I, / I live a life of ease, / Contented not to do or die / But idle as I please.
- Michael Flanders
Collection: Sloth
Image of Horace
You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.
- Horace
Collection: Sloth
Image of Edward Abbey
As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.
- Edward Abbey
Collection: Sloth
Image of Amos Bronson Alcott
Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
Collection: Sloth
Image of William Shakespeare
Awake, awake, English nobility! Let not sloth dim your horrors new-begot.
- William Shakespeare
Collection: Sloth
Image of Horace
That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.
- Horace
Collection: Sloth
Image of Edward Abbey
I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.
- Edward Abbey
Collection: Sloth
Image of Henry David Thoreau
In the student sensuality is a sluggish habit of mind.
- Henry David Thoreau
Collection: Sloth
Image of William Shakespeare
Hereditary sloth instructs me.
- William Shakespeare
Collection: Sloth
Image of William Shakespeare
And to the English court assemble now, From every region, apes of idleness!
- William Shakespeare
Collection: Sloth
Image of Eugene H. Peterson
Pastors are highly susceptible to the sin of sloth.
- Eugene H. Peterson
Collection: Sloth
Image of Henry David Thoreau
The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable.
- Henry David Thoreau
Collection: Sloth
Image of William Shakespeare
Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard.
- William Shakespeare
Collection: Sloth
Image of John Lyly
The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after.
- John Lyly
Collection: Sloth
Image of Warren Buffett
Benign neglect, bordering on sloth, remains the hallmark of our investment process.
- Warren Buffett
Collection: Sloth
Image of Warren Buffett
Lethargy bordering on sloth remains the cornerstone of our investment style. The exception was Wells Fargo, a superbly-managed, high-return banking operation in which we increased our ownership to just under 10%, the most we can own without the approval of the Federal Reserve Board.
- Warren Buffett
Collection: Sloth
Image of Charlie Munger
What do you want to avoid? Such an easy answer: sloth and unreliability. If you're unreliable it doesn't matter what your virtues are. You're going to crater immediately. Doing what you have faithfully engaged to do should be an automatic part of your conduct. You want to avoid sloth and unreliability.
- Charlie Munger
Collection: Sloth
Image of Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
Sloth is the torpidity of the mental faculties; the sluggard is a living insensible.
- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
Collection: Sloth
Image of Charles Caleb Colton
Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Collection: Sloth
Image of Benjamin Franklin
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy.
- Benjamin Franklin
Collection: Sloth
Image of Francis Bacon
To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Sloth
Image of Samuel Johnson
It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.
- Samuel Johnson
Collection: Sloth
Image of Francis Bacon
To spend too much time in studies is sloth.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Sloth
Image of Christopher Isherwood
I seldom try to probe the mystery of my sloth. I have squandered a gigantic fortune of work hours... seems likely that I'll go on squandering till the very end.
- Christopher Isherwood
Collection: Sloth
Image of Livy
Prosperity engenders sloth.
- Livy
Collection: Sloth
Image of Yann Martel
As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.
- Yann Martel
Collection: Sloth