Quotes About Idle Person

#1. An idle person is the devil's tennis ball, which he bandies up and down with temptation until at last the ball goes out of play.

Thomas Watson

#2. One who does not rouse themself when it is time to rise, who, though capable, is full of sloth, whose will and thought are weak, that lazy and idle person will never find their way to true knowledge.

Gautama Buddha

#3. A buddha is an idle person. He doesn't run around after fortune and fame.

Bodhidharma

#4. I like drama. I love being in a drama where I get to be the funny guy. That's what I really love the most.

John Leguizamo

#5. I am well known by my friends to be a workaholic - to their often justifiable annoyance. I am therefore keenly aware that such behavior is at best slightly pathological, and certainly in no sense makes one a better person.

David Graeber

#6. I'm not against the concept of Creators/God, I'm against the antiquated beliefs that there are evil things, which are merely axioms we concocted out of our inadequacy as mortal beings, primitive brain, and underdeveloped technology.

Andreas Laurencius

#7. I did all kinds of things as a young person to try to make money. I had a chicken operation - I sold chickens. I can remember going to high school football games as a ten-year-old and gathering Coca-Cola bottles, 'cause you'd turn them in and get a nickel. I wanted not to remain idle.

Charles Schwab

#8. Gossip is an idle talk that makes you look worse than the person you are talking about, and people tend to have more confidence in the person you talked about when they get tired of your gossip. Speak with love and kindness or don't speak at all.

Uzoma Nnadi

#9. What small account The All-living seems to take of this thin flame Which we call life. He sends a moment's blast Out of war's nostrils, and a myriad Of these our puny tapers are blown out Forever.

Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

#10. I never think in terms of target audience. I try to write what makes me laugh, so I'm the target audience. I guess I just hope there's another person in America like me.

Eric Idle

#11. I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing.

Eric Idle

#12. By staying focused on what I intend to create, by believing that the universe is all-providing, and by knowing that I'm worthy of the unlimited beneficence of the Source of being, I just keep attracting prosperity to me.

Wayne Dyer

#13. If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

#14. In a nuclear war, even if one side were to come out ahead by systems analytical standards, both sides would be so weakened, that it would - they would be in the position of Europe after the two World Wars.

Henry A. Kissinger

#15. Success is a choice; you choose it and work it out! Excellence is deliberate and so it is intentionally pursued. No successful person ever remained idle for success to knock his/her door for him/her

Israelmore Ayivor

#16. She could only wait. But she was not idle while she waited, because she was holding herself in readiness for whatever it was that she would have to do. She was trying not to be frightened in her mind, and she found that that sort of waiting and thinking really keep a person quite busy.

Elizabeth Goudge

#17. 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.

Saint John Chrysostom

#18. You initially become funny as a kid because you're looking for attention and love. Psychologists think that's all to do with mother abandonment. I think John Cleese has his depressions, and Terry Gilliam's the same. All of us together make one completely insane person.

Eric Idle

#19. If during the day, a person did not do anything about his purpose and calling, he did nothing at all

Sunday Adelaja

#20. No man is so idle that he cannot rouse himself just enough to get in the way of a busy person.

Robert Breault

#21. The Mustela netherlings are exceptional judges of character," Morpheus intones. "I knew Alyssa would rise to the occasion. I've complete faith that she can fend for herself. You, on the other hand, can't seem to grasp that concept.

A.G. Howard

#22. You don't comb the mirror, you comb your own hair and the mirror changes.

David Icke

#23. Jelly-bean is the name throughout the undissolved Confederacy for one who spends his life conjugating the verb to idle in the first person singular- - I am idling, I have idled, I will idle

F Scott Fitzgerald

#24. A person content to be bland will never be anyone's first choice as a companion for an idle afternoon.

Nancy Moser

#25. Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.

Thomas Jefferson

#26. Number is therefore the most primitive instrument of bringing an unconscious awareness of order into consciousness.

Marie-Louise Von Franz