Sloth Quotes - Page 2

Avoid sloth, bad company, dangerous conversations, and games; remembering that time passes and never returns, that you have a soul, and that if you lose your soul, you lose all.

Using governmental force to impose a vision on others is intellectual sloth.

My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.

You are not an agnostic.....You are just a fat slob who is too lazy to go to Mass.

Sloth and Silence are a Fool's Virtues

My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour - calm, quiet and introspective - did something to soothe my shattered self.

The lazy are always wanting to do something.

Sloth is the desire for ease, even at the expense of doing the known will of God. Whatever we do in life requires effort. Everything we do is to be a means of salvation. The slothful person is unwilling to do what God wants because of the effort it takes to do it. Sloth becomes a sin when it slows down and even brings to a halt the energy we must expend in using the means to salvation.

That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.

The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.

Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly.

Lethargy, bordering on sloth should remain the cornerstone of an investment style.

Lust is inseparably accompanied with the troubling of all order, with impudence, unseemliness, sloth, and dissoluteness.

Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.

Every move a sloth makes is with purpose, which is more than most of us can say about 90% of the time.

Benign neglect, bordering on sloth, remains the hallmark of our investment process.

An unclean person is universally a slothful one.

Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.

Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard.

I rather would entreat thy company; To see the wonders of the world abroad, Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.

Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.

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.

Often motivated by a desire to maintain the existing status quo, sloth almost cost the U.S. its auto industry, as it refused for decades to build fuel-efficient cars to compete with Japanese, Korean and European imports.

Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.

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