Laziness Quotes

To will the impossible is usually a sin of indolence.

To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.

People who have read a good deal rarely make great discoveries. I do not say this in excuse of laziness, but because invention presupposes an extensive independent contemplation of things.

Better never begin than never make an end.

Hard work pays off in the future but requires discomfort now. Laziness pays off now but guarantees discomfort in the future.

The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.

Shall we keep our hands in our bosom, or stretch ourselves on our beds of laziness, while all the world about us is hard at work, in pursuing the designs of its creation?

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

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

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

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

My comedy is romanticized laziness.

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.

The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after.

There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort.

The idle man is the devil's cushion.

Those that dare lose a day, ate dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, are desperate.

Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear.

Six, or at most seven, hours' sleep is, for a constancy, as much as you or anybody else can want; more is only laziness and dozing, and is, I am persuaded, both unwholesome and stupefying.

I'm not going to say it's laziness, but I'm not a grand creator of new characters.

Laziness in prayer is like handing the devil a key to your house.

Many psychotherapists believe laziness is usually just the symptom. That the real problem is fear of failure, fear of success, or fear of authority.

In New York, one must collapse to be indolent.

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

I'm a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black,...an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.

Take yourself by the scruff of the neck and shake off your incarnate laziness.

The insupportable labor of doing nothing.

There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.

The love of indolence is universal, or next to it.

Not doing things you can do is the whole point of laziness. Not doing something you can't do is just sensible.

Typographical laziness was slowly destroying our culture, according to Lexa and her pals. Inexactitude was death.

So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit.

If you make a habit of doing nothing, you have already earned your reward.

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.

We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work

His was not a lazy trustfulness that hoped, and did no more.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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