Laziness Quotations

Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.

Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.

We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.

Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly.

I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive.

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.

For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.

I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.

I like the word "indolence." It makes my laziness seem classy.

Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.

I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

The reason laziness is rarely pushed as a lifestyle option is down to one simple reason: money. There are fortunes to be made out of active lifestyles. Gyms charge fees. But no one is going to make money out of sleep. It is free.

Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.

There is a - deep down, underneath all the work I do, I think there's a laziness in me.

Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men.

It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

My whole comic persona is that of a guy who explores the id: I romanticize gluttony, I romanticize laziness, and people identify with that.

My laziness is really profound. I'm really interested in where it comes from - it almost feels chemical. And we've all got ADD now, short attention span and all that.

It's a disease of critics that once they've labeled someone, it's very hard to change their perspective. It's laziness.

I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.

The idle always have a mind to do something.

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.

There's nothing new about anti-work philosophy. History is dotted with individuals and groups who decided that laziness was next to godliness and work was a waste of time.

Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

Better never begin than never make an end.

In the world of creativity, laziness translates into an inability to be rigorous enough to create fearlessly. It makes us plagiarise or water our creativity down to make it more acceptable to the public.

My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

I think of myself as a very lazy author.

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent laziness.

He that rises late must trot all day.

But tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness.

The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.

Don't tolerate lazy people. They are losers.

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa.

the less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.

My ambition is handicapped by laziness

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

For all his understanding of worldly concerns, when it came to fathoming the deeper meaning of his own furious activity, Sir Bob displayed the sort of laziness for which he himself had no patience in others. He appeared to have only a passing interest in the overall purpose of his financial accumulation.

Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains. The more one has to do, the more he is able to accomplish.

Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains

Laziness erodes a person of his enthusiasm and energy. As a result the person loses all opportunities and finally becomes dejected and frustrated. The worst thing is that he stops believing in himself.

Laziness begets nothing but failures and lost opportunities.

Hard work often pays off after time, but laziness always pays off now

My complaint is not so much about the smear campaign as it is about the laziness of so-called objective journalists who failed to even do basic research.

Whether it's out of laziness or ignorance, consumers' starting point is very much search.

Under a socialist mode of production all personal incentives which selfishness provides under capitalism are removed, and a premium is put upon laziness and negligence. Whereas in a capitalist society selfishness incites everyone to the utmost diligence, in a socialist society it makes for inertia and laxity.

When daily you write intensively, one day of laziness subjects you to a suffering of unfamiliar compunction. The words can freeze and the state of privation worsens with idleness. Thus, a day off for a writer is chancy and, in conclusion, solely a luxury of other professions.

Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness.

Cliché activates the comfortable mental laziness, we sort of revert to the domain of the already-familiar, what we have already imagined so that it doesn't seem that bad.

Man is brilliant at solving problems; but solving them only makes him the victim of his own childishness and laziness. It is this recognition that has made almost every major philosopher in history a pessimist.

Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.

Laziness is built deep into our nature.

If we don't progress, we backslide into bad habits, laziness and poor attitude.

True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom.

When you give someone a commitment to ride their horse, you do it - unless, God forbid, something serious has happened. It would be laziness not to do it.

Each is a shared memory for people of different ages, ... It's fashionable -- almost compulsory at the TV festival -- to knock the number of repeats on TV and blame the laziness of broadcasters. But I believe there is a real public service in keeping these memories alive.

Even corporate IT people didn't do it. Some of it was due to laziness and some of it was due to the fact that people don't think about this.

Technology is making everyone self-sufficient, the only way to make money is to capitalize on people's laziness

Procrastination: Hard work often pays off after time, but laziness always pays off now

Often, psychological laziness will have you switch your life over to autopilot and fall asleep at the wheel rather than stay awake to what will fulfill your heart's deepest desires and your soul's purpose.

The most satisfying thrillers send ordinary people into battle against the forces of evil - otherwise known as greed, ego, rage, fear and laziness - and bring them out bloodied but whole.

A man must fortify himself and understand that a wise man who yields to laziness or anger or passion or love of drink, or who commits any other action prompted by impulse and inopportune, will probably find his fault condoned; but if he stoops to greed, he will not be pardoned, but render himself odious as a combination of all vices at once.

It's the third year that the team has been below what we expect. We can't disparage our opponents or be passive when we play. That's not Real Madrid's spirit. We can't let negativity or laziness take over.

They wear and eat the gifts from the Lord; how can laziness help them, O mother?

Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good.

Charity does not mean that the land should be full of beggars. We can provide some support and means for the beggars, but provide food, clothing and other conveniences in such a way that you are not encouraging laziness and begging.

When laziness attacks a woman, it always avoids her tongue.

The trouble with the world is that laziness is seldom curable and never fatal.

The cause of laziness is physiological; it is an infirmity of the constitution, and its victim is as much to be pitied as a sufferer from any other constitutional infirmity. It is even worse than many other diseases; from them the patient may recover, while this is incurable.

I'm like the laziest person who ever lived. It's amazing to me I even sit up.

Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness.

Human laziness makes people pigeonhole one another at first site so that they find nothing in common with one another.

Many are idly busy; Domitian was busy, but then it was in catching flies.

I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.

My comedy is romanticized laziness.

Comedians rarely have writers, and if you do it's usually a sign of laziness.

Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.

There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps.

Human nature is above all things lazy.

Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.

That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.

The scent of Sloth tempts a smug man.

Through laziness and cowardice a large part of mankind, even after nature has freed them from alien guidance, gladly remain immature. It is because of laziness and cowardice that it is so easy for others to usurp the role of guardians. It is so comfortable to be a minor!

Our minds are as much given to laziness as our bodies.

Of all our faults, the one we avow most easily is idleness; we persuade ourselves that it is allied to all the peaceable virtues,and as for the others, that it does not destroy them utterly, but only suspends the exercise of their functions.

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

Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue.

Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear.

I think comedy is the most difficult thing in the world, I really do.