Laziness Quotes

Lazy people, the truly lazy people live on information, strategies, ideas, plans and many other criticals, simply to spend one hour of hard work and make the rest feel like a breeze.

Alan Rios

It is the just doom of laziness and a gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquillity.

Samuel Johnson

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the year.

Spanish Proverb

The lazy are always wanting to do something.

Vauvenargues

Some folks can look so busy doing nothin' that they seem indispensable.

Kin Hubbard

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state. We must be doing something to be happy.

William Hazlitt

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others.

Jules Renard

He has a head that is for rent unfurnished.

Anonymous

The lust for comfort that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host and then a master.

Kahlil Gibran

The lazy man gets round the sun as quickly as the busy one.

R. T. Wombat

I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no anxiety about doing nothing by my own fault, my conscience was clear, and I was happy. This was when I was in prison.

Daniil Kharms

The more time you have to do things, the less you are able to get done.

Joyce Rachelle

One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.

Brian Tracy

Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field.

John Stuart Mill

Zombies weren't the true plague of the world, laziness was.

Faith McKay

Nowadays, our lifestyle is to follow the herd than to use the head.

Prabakaran Thirumalai

To those who think them selves strong, force always seems the easiest solution.

Barbara W. Tuchman

I'd never been much of an athlete, due to a physical condition I'd had since birth (unathleticism). Perhaps if there were a sport centered around lying on your couch in a neurotic stupor all day, I'd take an interest.

Colson Whitehead

Lazy people live lonely lives.

Habeeb Akande

Idling of our elders is called business; the idling of boys, though quite like it, is punished by those same elders, and no one pities either the boys or the men.

Augustine of Hippo

One excuse, could destroy a multitude of chances.

Anthony Liccione

Do not feel sorry for the bad luck of people, because behind everyone’s misery is their own stupidity and laziness.

M.F. Moonzajer

I divide my officers into four classes as follows: The clever, the industrious, the lazy, and the stupid. Each officer always possesses two of these qualities.Those who are clever and industrious I appoint to the General Staff. Use can under certain circumstances be made of those who are stupid and lazy. The man who is clever and lazy qualifies for the highest leadership posts. He has the requisite nerves and the mental clarity for difficult decisions. But whoever is stupid and industrious must be got rid of, for he is too dangerous.

Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord

Where there is less pain, there is also less pay.

Auliq-Ice

Beliefs are conclusions reached by men who are lazy to think for themselves.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It's always easier to take something than work for it...

Alexandra Bracken

Talent is not enough, hard work makes the difference

Sunday Adelaja

Because there is no challenge, there is no reason to work hard. And with no reason to work hard, we all have become lazy. Lazy people are like cancer. They spread. Before you know it, the entire country is destroyed.

Tahir Shah

Descending the endless stairs for the sixth time, Mr. Lecky thought of all the goods those closed doors hid. Fantastic was the discouragement it caused him. Aware of such variety and great quantity, Mr. Lecky saw the danger of forgetting or never even imagining things which, discovered, he would want. Everlastingly midway between two equal errors, to which could he cleave? To have time for everything, one must make haste. To gain access to everything, one must be patient.Moreover, hasty, or patient as Job, with what great labor would Mr. Lecky carry up on his back all he got! Making, as he was every moment, the climb back longer, giving, as he did with each step down, consent to toil more and more severe, he could anticipate vaguely and abhor another possibility. Curious and insubstantial as his fearing not to find what he could not think of, was his resentment of a perhaps coming time when he might, in revolt against the inanity of exertion, live meanly and miserably, with no object but somehow to make what was already at hand suffice for him. Against this insidious ill chance there exists no defense, since so often what today is detested will appear tomorrow - though surely still detestable - good and wise.

James Gould Cozzens

Superficial efficiency seems cheaper at first, but it costs more the long run, with the cost being pushed off onto someone other than the one who saves a few bucks.

Matt Perman

Stay away from lazy parasites, who perch on you just to satisfy their needs, they do not come to alleviate your burdens, hence, their mission is to distract, detract and extract, and make you live in abject poverty.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Habitual procrastinators will readily testify to all the lost opportunities, missed deadlines, failed relationships and even monetary losses incurred just because of one nasty habit of putting things off until it is often too late.

Stephen Richards

Both positive and negative thinking are contagious.

Stephen Richards

The problem with procrastination is it’s been around since the beginning of time it seems.

Stephen Richards

How often do you find yourself saying, “In a minute”, “I’ll get to it” or “Tomorrow’s good enough” and every other possible excuse in the book? Compare it with how often you decide it’s got to be done, so let’s get on and do it! That should tell you just how serious your procrastinating problem really is.

Stephen Richards

Stop sleeping, Get to work! You will have much time to sleep when you die.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Retro is a symptom of a generation that is too lazy to innovate.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I was sitting on a bench having a bagel, but from where I was both jogging and scullng looks good to me. -- Sam

Aaron Sorkin

Extolling the virtues of conservation of energy, Churchill advised, "Never stand when you can sit, and never sit when you can lie down.

Winston S. Churchill

As a general rule, man strives to avoid labor. Love for work is not at all an inborn characteristic: it is created by economic pressure and social education. One may even say that man is a fairly lazy animal. It is on this quality, in reality, that is founded to a considerable extent all human progress; because if man did not strive to expend his energy economically, did not seek to receive the largest possible quantity of products in return for a small quantity of energy, there would have been no technical development or social culture.

Leon Trotsky

There is no night in the life of brave, just like there is much rest in the hearts of the lazy ones.

Auliq-Ice

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

Robert A. Heinlein

I am well known by my friends to be a workaholic - to their often justifiable annoyance. I am therefore keenly aware that such behavior is at best slightly pathological, and certainly in no sense makes one a better person.

David Graeber

My route, Sior Francis—and don't be surprised when you hear it—my route when I set out to find God... was... laziness. Yes, laziness. If I wasn't lazy I would have gone the way of respectable, upstanding people. Like everyone else I would have studied a trade—cabinet-maker, weaver, mason—and opened a shop; I would have worked all day long, and where then would I have found time to search for God? I might as well be looking for a needle in a haystack: that's what I would have said to myself. All my mind and thoughts would have been occupied with how to earn my living, feed my children, how to keep the upper hand over my wife. With such worries, curse them, how could I have the time, or inclination, or the pure heart needed to think about the Almighty?But by the grace of God I was born lazy. To work, get married, have children, and make problems for myself were all too much trouble. I simply sat in the sun during winter and in the shade during summer, while at night, stretched out on my back on the roof of my house, I watched the moon and the stars. And when you watch the moon and the stars how can you expect your mind not to dwell on God? I couldn't sleep any more. Who made all that? I asked myself. And why? Who made me, and why? Where can I find God so that I may ask Him? Piety requires laziness, you know. It requires leisure—and don't listen to what others say. The laborer who lives from hand to mouth returns home each night exhausted and famished. He assaults his dinner, bolts his food, then quarrels with his wife, beats his children without rhyme or reason simply because he's tired and irritated, and afterwards he clenches his fists and sleeps. Waking up for a moment he finds his wife at his side, couples with her, clenches his fists once more, and plunges back into sleep.... Where can he find time for God? But the man who is without work, children, and wife thinks about God, at first just out of curiosity, but later with anguish.

Nikos Kazantzakis

The problem with spiritual procrastination is the uncertain time of the deadline.

Kevin Thoman

How much more than necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says.

Benjamin Franklin

Laziness is the mother of all bad habits, but ultimately she is a mother and we should respect her

Shikamaru Nara

Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

Robert A. Heinlein

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

Karl Marx

...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others.

Eleanor Roosevelt

How strange," continued the king, with some asperity; "the police think that they have disposed of the whole matter when they say, 'A murder has been committed,' and especially so when they can add, 'And we are on the track of the guilty persons.

Alexandre Dumas

There is always time to die, but never time to live.

Anthony Liccione

New Rule: Apple's next device must be a computer that you control with your tongue. Thanks for eliminating the keyboard and the mouse, but pointing and pushing at things already seems too complicated and tiring. We're Americans--and until you free our hands from the computer entirely, we can never attain our ultimate goal: Web surfing while eating and masturbating.

Bill Maher

Are you placed where others are sitting down idly, doing nothing? Rise to the work with all your powers; and when the sweat stands upon your brow, and you are tempted to loiter, cry, "No, I cannot stop, for I am Christ's. If I were not purchased by blood, I might be like Issachar, crouching between two burdens; but I am Christ's, and cannot loiter.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Laziness - The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.

Idries Shah

I should be inclined, therefore, as I have hinted before, to consider the world and this life as the mighty process of God, not for the trial, but for the creation and formation of mind, a process necessary to awaken inert, chaotic matter into spirit, to sublimate the dust of the earth into soul, to elicit an ethereal spark from the clod of clay. And in this view of the subject, the various impressions and excitements which man receives through life may be considered as the forming hand of his Creator, acting by general laws, and awakening his sluggish existence, by the animating touches of the Divinity, into a capacity of superior enjoyment. The original sin of man is the torpor and corruption of the chaotic matter in which he may be said to be born.

Thomas Robert Malthus

Some seek only the appearance of justice and virtues. Some seek real justice and virtues. Some others are too lazy to search at all.

Klaudio Marashi

Being Good and Lazy human is Deadly combination.

Talees Rizvi

Never underestimate the capacity of people to choose the easy way.

William James Moore

There is no such thing as senility when it comes to envy, greed laziness, wrath and pride. It's her destructive character from childhood." ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You

Angelica Hopes

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