Memorable Idle Hands Quotes

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"Idle hands are the devil’s workshop."
Proverb
"When you've got nothing to do, you've got too much time to think."
Anonymous
"Idle hands can be a blessing as well as a curse."
Ian McEwan
"The only thing worse than being busy is being idle."
Anonymous
"Being idle is a good way to let the devil into your life."
Anonymous
"If you want to avoid evil, keep your hands busy."
Anonymous
"Work is always an antidote to sorrow."
Euripides
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"The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work."
Richard Bach
"Nothing is more exhausting than the task of idle time."
Anonymous
"The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic."
Peter Drucker
"Idleness is the beginning of all vice."
Proverb
"An idle brain is a devil's workshop."
Anonymous
"The devil makes work for idle hands."
Anonymous
"Life is not about being idle; it’s about being active, engaged, and living to the fullest."
Anonymous
"Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort."
Paul J. Meyer
"To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are governed by their hunger and health are the rich people’s treasure."
Proverb
"If you don't have a plan, you will become part of someone else's plan."
Terence McKenna
"Inactivity breeds problems and possibilities."
Anonymous
"One of the great delusions of life is that you can become successful without working hard."
Anonymous
"I can think of no better service to my country than to help the successful develop their talents and resources."
Catherine P. de Bragança
"Time is what we want most, but what we use worst."
William Penn
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"An idle mind is a devil's workshop."
John Locke
"If you want to keep your hands busy, you won't be tempted to idle."
Benjamin Franklin
"Those who spend too long in idle contemplation and neglecting the practice of it may find themselves bound by the devil's suggestions."
Thomas Manton
"Work is a blessing. Being idle is the bane of our spirits."
Anonymous
"Idleness is the parent of all vice."
Proverb
"A life without work is a life without purpose."
Mary B. W. Smith
"The blessing of work is that it keeps us away from idleness."
Anonymous
"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time."
John Lubbock
"Only the idle can afford to be bored."
Anonymous
"It's better to have your hands busy than your mind free."
Anonymous
"We must work with all our strength while we have the opportunity, for idleness does not allow us to be truly happy."
Anonymous
"Occupy your mind or it will occupy you."
Anonymous
"Idleness is the enemy of the self."
Matthew Fox
"One's idle thoughts can become one's worst enemy."
Anonymous
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"Keeping active is the key to staying mentally sharp."
Anonymous
"The best cure for boredom is to keep oneself active."
Anonymous
"He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good."
Hannah Arendt
"Activity conquers fear and boredom."
Anonymous
"The mind must be occupied; it is its nature."
Anonymous
"Engagement in work is the antidote to the curse of idleness."
Anonymous
"Nothing in life is worse than doing nothing at all."
Anonymous
"A busy person has no time to be bored."
Anonymous
"Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose: and commit myself to what is best for me."
Paulo Coelho
"People who are bored usually find ways to be a nuisance."
Proverb
"Work is a blessing, and idleness is a curse."
W. H. Auden
"Work yourself to death, and enjoy it at the same time."
Anonymous
"The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."
Lily Tomlin
"Idleness is the enemy of the soul."
St. Benedict
"Idle hands are not good for the soul."
Anonymous
"If you want to be a leader, you must be willing to work harder than anyone else."
Anonymous
"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."
Walt Disney
"Those who do not want to work will never find a way to make a living."
Anonymous
"Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard."
Tim Notke
"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking."
William Butler Yeats
"The idle rich are often idle for a reason they cannot escape."
Anonymous
"Idleness is a state of mind; only those with purpose can avoid it."
Anonymous
"You can't sit around and wait for someone to come and take care of you. You have to get out there and do it yourself."
Lucy Liu
"Boredom is the root of all evil – the despairing refusal to be oneself."
Soren Kierkegaard
"Time and tide wait for no man, and neither will success."
Anonymous
"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."
Robert Collier
"Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"The future depends on what you do today."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."
Don Marquis
"Do something you love, and you'll never have to work a day in your life."
Marc Anthony
"It's not about how hard you work; it's about working smart."
Anonymous
"True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful."
Paul Sweeney
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing."
Henry Ford
"The mind is everything. What you think you become."
Buddha
"You cannot idle your way to success."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"Satan is not afraid of busy hands, but idle hands."
Unknown
"Work hard in silence, let success make the noise."
Frank Ocean
"Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.'"
Lao Tzu
"If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it."
Lucille Ball
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
Henry David Thoreau
"Those who love to be idle don't like the company of others."
Unknown
"Leisure is the best time for doing nothing."
Plato
"Existence is all about finding meaning in the chaos of idleness."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Activity conquers the pain of idleness."
Julius Caesar
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
Mahatma Gandhi
"The avoidance of work is the only excuse for idleness."
Unknown
"Go for it now. The future is promised to no one."
Wayne Dyer
"Idleness is the root of all evil."
Benjamin Franklin
"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."
Sam Levenson
"Idleness is the state of doing nothing. Avoid it."
Unknown
"To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"Work is the antidote to sorrow."
Abraham Lincoln
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."
Mark Twain
"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time."
John Lubbock
"Idle hands is not just a saying; it's a warning."
Unknown
"Idle hands are the devil's workshop."
Proverb
"There is no work more important than the work that is done while you are idle."
Anonymous
"An idle mind is the devil's playground."
Anonymous
"The greatest evil is a mind that is idle."
Socrates
"If you aren’t making mistakes, then you aren’t doing anything."
John Wooden
"People always say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily."
Zig Ziglar
"Activity is the only road to knowledge."
George Washington Carver
"Idleness is the dead sea that swallows all virtues."
Benjamin Franklin
"The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down."
Stephen Richards
"Work is the key to any door."
Scott Kriens
"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmurs of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time."
John Lubbock
"Idleness breeds ingratitude, and gratitude breeds life."
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
"To be idle is a great sin; it is to lose time that is very precious."
Anonymous
"An idle youth, a needy age."
Estonian Proverb
"Idleness is a slow suicide."
Virginia Woolf
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
George Bernard Shaw
"The only thing worse than being unhappy is being idle."
Anonymous
"The devil finds work for idle hands."
Proverb
"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Productivity is not just about doing more; it’s also about not wasting time."
Anonymous
"Too much time on your hands is idle time."
Anonymous
"Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning."
Philip Brooks
"Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life."
Harvey Mackay
"Being busy is not the same as being productive."
Anonymous
"The finest workers in stone are those that have hit the hardest stones."
Anonymous
"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."
Abraham Lincoln
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