Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

Our temptation is to look eagerly for the minimum that will be accepted. We are in fact very like honest but reluctant taxpayers.

C. S. Lewis

We must get over wanting to be needed-this is the hardest of all temptations to resist

Charles R. Swindoll

I'm here today to warn you: I want you to watch out for the adversary. Guard yourself from any spirit of entitlement. Restrain any and all subtle temptation to gain attention or to find ways to promote yourself.

Charles Spurgeon

Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle

Ayn Rand

Consider the reasons which make us certain that we are right, but not the fact that we are certain. If you are not convinced, ignore our certainty. Don't be tempted to substitute our judgment for your own.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Temptations make one very censorious. If you are virtuous you condemn the wicked and if you are wicked, you condemn the virtuous.

Arthur Koestler

The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan.

English Proverbs

When we find ouselves in some grave danger we must not lose courage but firmly trust in God, for where there is the greatest danger, there is also the greatest help from Him who wants to be called our 'Help' in times of peace and in times of tribulation.

David A. Bednar

Very simply, the Spirit of Elijah is the Holy Ghost. The Spirit of Elijah will influence anyone who is involved in this work. That, for a young person in the wickedness in the world in which we live today, is one of the greatest safeguards against the temptations of the adversary. The Spirit of Elijah will not only bless you, it will protect you.

Edward Abbey

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

William Shakespeare

And to the English court assemble now, From every region, apes of idleness!

William Shakespeare

Awake, awake, English nobility! Let not sloth dim your horrors new-begot.

William Shakespeare

Hereditary sloth instructs me.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.

Benjamin Franklin

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy.

Benjamin Franklin

Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them.

Conor Cruise O'Brien

You are not an agnostic.....You are just a fat slob who is too lazy to go to Mass.

Charles Caleb Colton

Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Right now, Vee was the only person I could count on. She could be obnoxious,annoying, and lazy, but she never lied to me.

Alain de Botton

There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.

Edward Norton

The elegance of staying with a moment, without needing to stop and change all the lighting, made [the alternative] seem lazy and indulgent.

Barbara Hershey

I'm afraid of being lazy and complacent. I'm afraid of taking myself too seriously.

Asia Argento

I tend to be a lazy actress, unless I'm pushed.

Vauvenargues Marquis

Lazy people are always wanting to do something

Ben Kingsley

When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.

Jane Green

I am very busy, life is very busy, and I was, I think, a somewhat lazy friend. I love them, I know they love me, but I didn't make much of an effort.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

A person of riyaa (showing off) has three characteristics : He is lazy when alone, energetic when with others, and increases in his actions when he is praised while decreasing in them when he is criticized.