Having faith does not mean you should be idle and expecting manna to fall from above. You must get up and do something!
~ Israelmore Ayivor
Gloating is a superficial glowing, floating is an idle flowing, and bloatedness is the paralysis of blowing up; because silent movement results in loud victories.
~ Criss Jami
Because of self-doubt, the fear of failure, or laziness, most people usually bite off way less than they can chew.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If during the day, a person did not do anything about his purpose and calling, he did nothing at all
~ Sunday Adelaja
If you wait for the mango fruits to fall, you'd be wasting your time while others are learning how to climb the tree
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
Bear it in mind that people who do not take actions are not and cannot be leaders. Leadership is action.
Don’t sit at home and wait for mango tree to bring mangoes to you wherever you are. It won’t happen. If you are truly hungry for change, go out of your comfort zone and change the world.
An idle mind is a devil’s workshop and I am prone to renting out my mind to the first bidder.
~ Anurag Shourie
Nobody does nothing. Everybody does something, sometimes nothing is something in the idle man's world.
Lack of courage is what makes big dreams to sit in the ink of the paper instead of them running in the shoes of actions. Without courage, you remain a dreamer!
When you are fired because of laziness, dare to fire back with the spirit of enthusiasm. Rise up at the same time and at the same place that you have fallen. You can’t give up!
Put into actions what you dream of achieving. It'll amaze you to discover that you can do more than you ever dream of. Just give it a try! Never be idle, take actions now!
We haven't remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time. Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives . . . our vicarious way to feel alive.
~ V.c. Andrews
Idle hands are the devils greatest tools. But it’ll be good to notice that the tools sharpened by idle heads. You are idle because that’s the job your mind gave you!
I no longer think that laziness is all about being idle. I now know when I become lazy- when I stop learning new things, and cease to grow.
~ Assegid Habtewold
God doesn’t want us to sit idle and simply enjoy His presence, he wants a close relationship with Him
They call it business because it does not become successful by a person's idleness. Go get busy if you want to do business; but be busy for the right reasons!
If you are idle, ask “why?” If you feel like life is boring for you, ask “why?” When you get into a disappointment, ask “why?” Even if you come out of all torments and disturbances, ask “why?
When you come across an excellent invention, what it should tell you is that someone used most of his sleeping time as his thinking time... and he kept doing the same until his good became better and his better became the best!
It’s two things, you either choose to take risks through storms and win after the hail or you remain idle and die idle. Once laziness is deliberate, failure is not an accident!
True blessing comes in the dress of sweats, never delaying to wave bye to the excuses and procrastination. True blessing lies in hard work!
Static people don’t fall! You fell because you were either climbing, or running. This is a sign that you are on track. Don’t stop where you fall; rise up and do it again!
Opportunity never arrives, it only walks by. Chance never comes, it only knocks at the door. Never think the success will jump into your palms; you must work for it!
There is no harvest without hard work, therefore never expect chance to solve your problems of abject need for you. You must take deliberate actions!
Stop chasing another busy self to become. Your real self is idle waiting to be lived... Go, take up your real self!
Conquerors fight their own battles. You are more than a conqueror, that's why the battle was fought on your behalf by Christ. However, it does not mean you should stay idle... Dress up and go to work!
There are two types of patience. One is exercised in hard work and the other in idleness. Patience with hard work is the one that moves mountains. Patience in idleness moves nothing, not even cobwebs.
Anytime you feel like you don't have any work to do, just look around. Look for what God had started doing and ask for his permission to assist him in doing it.
Idleness is a form of passivity in an active universe.
If I was your mirror, you would look for me more, than you do me.
~ Anthony Liccione
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
Stop waiting and start working. Stop wishing and start walking.
There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.
~ Bryant H. Mcgill
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
~ Khalil Gibran
If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.
~ Albrecht Dürer
To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
~ Henry David Thoreau
