Sloth Quotes

The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter.
Dave Mustaine

Fun, Help, Envy

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Power, Nothing, Goodness

Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Soul, Ambition, Activity

You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.
Horace

Avoid, Wicked, Siren

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another.
George Saunders

Life, Good, Truth

Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.
Mason Cooley

Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.
Ovid

Body, Water, Unless

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

Mind, Nothing, Others

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.
Simon Mainwaring

Often, Desire, Almost

My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.
Larry David

Background, Mostly

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
Quintilian

Excuse, Difficulty, Pretext

The chances of a person breaking through their own habits and sloth and limited mind to actually write something that gets out there and matters to people are slim.
George Saunders

Mind, Person, Through

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

School, Word, Describe

Pulp existed for 12 years before we got famous. Now, you could say that was just lack of imagination, but it's some kind of quality isn't it? Tenacity. You could also say it was sloth.
Jarvis Cocker

Famous, Before, Quality

Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed.
Reid Hoffman

Best, Ego, Greed

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