Idleness leads to relaxation, sooner or later bringing about ideological and material corruption, accompanied by lack of discipline, anarchy chaos and defeat.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

Flee laziness, which, while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a seed shut up in the pod, and art without practice is nothing.

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state: we must be doing something to be happy.

Don't yield to that alluring witch, Laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.

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

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others.

The idea of passing one's whole life in moral idleness, and having one's hardest work and duty done by another-whether God or man-is most revolting to us, as it is most degrading to human dignity.