James

“Success operates in active moments and not in idleness.”
― Oscar Bimpong

“An idle mind is a devil’s workshop and I am prone to renting out my mind to the first bidder.”
― Anurag Shourie, Half A Shadow

“A good work ethic is not so much a concern for hard work but rather one for responsibility. There have been a great many men and women who have in fact used work or hustle or selfish ambition as an escape from real responsibility, an escape from purpose. In matters such as these, the hard worker is just as dysfunctional as the sloth.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“[I]f thou loiter when thou shouldst labour, thou wilt lose the crown. O fall to work then speedily and seriously, and bless God that thou hast yet time to do it; and though that which is past cannot be recalled, yet redeem the time now by doubling thy diligence (260).”
― Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest