Kural 608 · மடிமை குடிமைக்கண் தங்கின்தன் ஒன்னார்க்கு
If sloth settles in a family, it will put that family into servitude to its enemies.
The Eighteen Lesser Texts, including the Thirukkural.
If sloth settles in a family, it will put that family into servitude to its enemies.
The faults that have entered a family's management will vanish if one member removes his sloth.
A king free of sloth will gain together all the worlds that the Lord who measured with his feet once strode over.
One must not grow weary thinking a task is hard to do, for effort itself brings greatness.
In any work, guard against it spoiling; the world turns away from those who leave work half done.
The proud joy of helping others rests only in the noble quality called effort.
The liberality of a man without effort fails, like a sword wielded by a timid hand.
The man who longs not for pleasure but for work wipes away the sorrow of his kin and stands as their supporting pillar.
Effort creates wealth; lack of effort ushers in poverty.
They say the goddess of misfortune dwells in sloth; the lotus-seated goddess of prosperity dwells in the effort of the one free of sloth.