Laziness Quotes

Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else. But really there wasn't much point, and I gave up the idea out of laziness.

~ Albert Camus

Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.

~ Paul Terry

I've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?

~ Ronald Reagan

The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their intellectual powers and aptitudes as their curiosity, their energy, their fullest use of their potentialities. Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more than we know what to do with.

~ Sydney J. Harris

We, in the interest of the so-called progress, have been persuaded to leave the production and at times the cooking of our food to companies whose owners and employees make a living by exploiting our busyness or laziness and our innate hunger to continue living.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It's a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write. Having anybody watching that or attempting to share it with me would be grisly.

~ Paul Rudnick

Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.

~ Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

knowledge without application is like a book that is never read' Christopher Crawford, Hemel Hempstead.

~ Christopher Crawford

Don’t join the queue of ignorant people who do not know that their time flies away into vanity daily. Don’t be a part of the lazy lot who cannot discipline themselves in solitude to convert their time into products or added value.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Someone may have all the technical knowledge, scientific intellect and business know-how but when he/she decides to choose laziness, excuses, procrastination, complaining and other bad attitudes, his/her relevance is meaningless.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace is a permit for destruction: The unyielding optimist will pretend that the forest is not burning either because he is too lazy or too afraid to go and put the fire out.

~ Criss Jami

Comfort is a stance of avoidance rather than the pursuit of excellence.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Because of self-doubt, the fear of failure, or laziness, most people usually bite off way less than they can chew.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

God does not like lazy people, He likes those who work

~ Sunday Adelaja

If truth be told, the easy road is nothing more than an armchair in clever disguise. And if you look around, it seems that there are a whole lot of people in the furniture business.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

You make name for yourself when you overcome pain, weakness, laziness and ignorance

~ Sunday Adelaja

My get-up-and-go often leaves without me.

~ Nanette Mathews

If you wait for the mango fruits to fall, you'd be wasting your time while others are learning how to climb the tree

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

His idleness was his refuge, and in this he was like many others in [occupied] France in that period; laziness became political.

~ Iain Pears

If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there's no way around doing the work it takes to get you there.

~ Joyce Chapman

I will feel no guilt on shutting my door to those who didn't listen.

~ Stefan Molyneux

The worst mistake a writer can make is to assume everyone has an imagination.

~ Andrew Mcewan

The men sit around getting fat and arguing with each other about something they call “philosophy” - most of which is pure nonsense.

~ David Eddings

So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays.

~ N.h. Kleinbaum

It’s hard to safeguard a genuine life course, when love tips over from endearing care into tedium, through laziness of imagination or loss of interest, and the storyline becomes barren and desolate, insipidly dull, turning into a threadbare act with the same trite modus operandi. “The same procedure as every year, James!” (Things needing to be changed)

~ Erik Pevernagie

In the 1960 campaign, Arthur Schlesinger wrote of Adlai Stevenson, who already lost twice as the party's presidential nominee, He has been away from power too long; he gives me an odd sense of unreality, a certain frivolity, distractedness, over-interest in words and phrases.

~ David Pietrusza

It was not because I had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, but because Joe had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, that I worked with tolerable zeal against the grain.

~ Charles Dickens

Those who see poverty looking for human slaves to capture, will tell you they saw him holding the handcuffs of laziness.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

But we are curious about the result, just as we are curious about the way a book turns out. We do not want to know anything about the anxiety, the distress, the paradox. We carry on an esthetic flirtation with the result. It arrives just as unexpectedly but also just as effortlessly as a prize in a lottery, and when we have heard the result, we have built ourselves up.

~ Søren Kierkegaard

The city is dirty due to the laziness of the citizens in the country.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.

~ Benjamin Franklin

So said Hair-Face, and they killed him, because, they said, he was a wild man and wanted to go back and live in a tree. It was very strange. Whenever a man arose and wanted to go forward all those that stood still said he went backward and should be killed. And the poor people helped stone him, and were fools. We were all fools, except those who were fat and did no work. The fools were called wise, and the wise were stoned. Men who worked did not get enough to eat, and the men who did not work ate too much.

~ Jack London

It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to work, it facinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

~ Jerome K. Jerome

We wake up to be alive and to revive our lives; we don’t wake up to keep sleeping! We wake up not just to be alive, but also to keep our works alive and mind the business of the day! When you wake up, revive your work! Sometimes you may just feel reluctant to do something when day breaks, but you must remember that there is always something that needs to be done when day breaks, for each day we meet as we journey in life comes with its own agenda! He who fails to know the real reasons why day breaks shall always abuse the real and true essence of each day, knowingly or unknowingly! Be alive when you wake up and do something with all your might when day breaks for you surely leave a footprint each day you wake up! When you wake up, wake up!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

If you are lazy, then undoubtedly you will soon become poor

~ Sunday Adelaja

HLADE’S LAW: If you have a difficult task give it to a lazy man — he will find an easier way to do it.

~ Arthur Bloch

Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a portion of mankind, after nature has long since discharged them from external direction (naturaliter maiorennes), nevertheless remains under lifelong tutelage, and why it is so easy for others to set themselves up as their guardians. It is so easy not to be of age. If I have a book which understands for me, a pastor who has a conscience for me, a physician who decides my diet, and so forth, I need not trouble myself. I need not think, if I can only pay - others will easily undertake the irksome work for me.That the step to competence is held to be very dangerous by the far greater portion of mankind...

~ Immanuel Kant

Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live.

~ Criss Jami

Mostly, what people mean by love is laziness.

~ Amanda Craig

From our immersion in scarcity arise the habits of scarcity. From the scarcity of time arises the habit of hurrying. From the scarcity of money comes the habit of greed. From the scarcity of attention comes the habit of showing off. From the scarcity of meaningful labor comes the habit of laziness. From the scarcity of unconditional acceptance comes the habit of manipulation.

~ Charles Eisenstein