Top 171 Sloth Quotes & Sayings

Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

Prosperity engenders sloth.

Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.

Pastors are highly susceptible to the sin of 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.

To spend too much time in studies is sloth.

Jack, you've debauched my sloth.

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

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

From exertion come wisdom and purity; from sloth ignorance and sensuality.

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.

No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.

Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace.

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

Cynicism is only intellectual sloth.

These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor; This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome.

The monster is never just there where we think he is. What is truly monstrous is our cowardice and sloth.

It feels good to finally stand on top of vanquished sloth, and actually impress some people as a hard worker.

Sloth and Silence are a Fool's Virtues

As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.

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

Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way was up, who were in the thrall of reason, that fool's gold for the bright - reminded me of the three-toed sloth; and the three-toed sloth, such a beautiful example of the miracle of life, reminded me of God.

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.

What do you want to avoid? Such an easy answer: sloth and unreliability. If you're unreliable it doesn't matter what your virtues are. You're going to crater immediately. Doing what you have faithfully engaged to do should be an automatic part of your conduct. You want to avoid sloth and unreliability.

Sloth is the fastest-growing lifestyle movement in the world, and that's because it is completely doable. If you embrace sloth, it's the last thing you'll ever have to do again.

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

My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.

Hereditary sloth instructs me.

Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.

Sloth is all passions the most powerful.

I love to sleep. My astrological sign is the sloth.

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

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

You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

There are times when one is tempted to say that the great, sprawling, lethargic sin of Sloth is the oldest and greatest of the sins and the parent of all the rest.

My regimen is lust and avarice for exercise, gluttony and sloth for relaxation.

Sloth is the torpidity of the mental faculties; the sluggard is a living insensible.

Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.

Are you sitting comfortably? Then get up. This is no time for sloth.

I have more in common with a three-toed sloth or a one-eyed pterodactyl or a Kalamata olive than I have with Winston Churchill.

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

Were cricket and football abolished, it would bring upon the masses nothing but misery, depression, sloth, indiscipline and disorder.

And I thought, there's a sloth near. There's a sloth here, it's close, it's gonna happen. And I didn't know how to process that, because my entire life had been waiting for this moment.

The avenues in my neighborhood are Pride, Covetousness and Lust; the cross streets are Anger, Gluttony, Envy and Sloth. I live over on Sloth, and the style on our street is to avoid the other thoroughfares.

Sloth is the great enemy -- the inspirer of cowardice, irresolution, self-pitying grief, and trivial, hairsplitting doubts. Sloth may also be a psychological cause of sickness. It is tempting to relax from our duties, take refuge in ill-health and hide under a nice warm blanket.

Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them.

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

To misuse one's talent, to be cavalier about it, to set it aside because of fear or sloth is unpardonable.

Avoid sloth, the mother of all vices!

Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.

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

It's a shame that creativity and sloth look exactly the same.

The scent of Sloth tempts a smug man.

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

I'd love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don't consider laziness a sin at all.

Division of labor is a justification for sloth.

I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.

Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.

A Bradypus or Sloth am I, / I live a life of ease, / Contented not to do or die / But idle as I please.