quotes about Laziness
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Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to it himself.
-- A. H. Weiler -
Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness.
-- A. J. JacobsSource : A. J. Jacobs (2009). “The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment”, p.87, Simon and Schuster
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Beware of those who say: "I know this too well to be able to express it." For if they cannot do so, this is because they don't know it or because out of laziness they stopped at the outer crust.
-- Albert Camus -
Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.
-- Ann Rule -
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My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.
-- Anthony Hopkins -
I'm afraid of being lazy and complacent. I'm afraid of taking myself too seriously.
-- Barbara HersheySource : "20 Questions: Barbara Hershey". Playboy Interview with David Rensin, May 1, 1987.
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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 -
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
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The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.
-- Benjamin WhichcoteSource : Benjamin Whichcote, Anthony Tuckney (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney”, p.166
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We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.
-- Bernard de MandevilleSource : "The Fable of the Bees". Book by Bernard Mandeville. Remark V, p. 267, 1732.
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I like the word "indolence." It makes my laziness seem classy.
-- Bernard Williams -
But tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness.
-- Bill McKibben -
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Only those who want everything done for them are bored.
-- Billy Graham -
Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.
-- Campbell ScottSource : "PROCESS: Tom Gilroy and Campbell Scott on Acting, Directing and Details, Part II" by Tom Gilroy, www.indiewire.com. November 19, 2001.
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I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive.
-- Charles Evers -
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There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Change is hard because people wear themselves out. And that’s the second surprise about change: What looks like laziness is often exhaustion.
-- Chip Heath -
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.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
Not wanting to see, not wanting to be in touch with one's experience is something akin to cognitive laziness, an eclipse of the experiencer or inner witnessing in the person.
-- Claudio Naranjo -
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Buzyness, however, is moral laziness because it involves refusing to live with courage and intentionality.
-- Dan B. AllenderSource : Dan B. Allender (2011). “Leading with a Limp: Take Full Advantage of Your Most Powerful Weakness”, p.129, WaterBrook
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If we don't progress, we backslide into bad habits, laziness and poor attitude.
-- Dan Gable -
Those who do the least themselves are always the severest critics upon the noble achievements of others.
-- Elias Lyman MagoonSource : Elias Lyman Magoon (1849). “Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom”, p.164
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For the lazy, all work is difficult.
-- Elizabeth Foreman LewisSource : Elizabeth Foreman Lewis (2016). “Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze”, p.211, Macmillan
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Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly.
-- Elizabeth HurleySource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.
-- Elizabeth Smart -
The biggest part of painting perhaps is faith, and waiting receptively, content to go any way, not planning or forcing. The fear, though, is laziness. It is so easy to drift and finally be tossed up on the beach, derelict.
-- Emily Carr -
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The ultimate laziness is not using Perl. That saves you so much work you wouldn't believe it if you had never tried it.
-- Erik Naggum -
The trouble with the world is that laziness is seldom curable and never fatal.
-- Evan Esar -
When laziness attacks a woman, it always avoids her tongue.
-- Evan Esar -
To will the impossible is usually a sin of indolence.
-- Fanny Lewald -
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Our minds are as much given to laziness as our bodies.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
-- George Henry BorrowSource : George Henry Borrow (2012). “The Pocket George Borrow”, p.73, tredition
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It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue; and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton -
I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.
-- Harold RamisSource : Interview with Kenneth Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May - November 2005.
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Human nature is above all things lazy.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe -
There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.
-- Helena Rubinstein -
We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.
-- Henry Adams -
If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
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There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps.
-- Herbert V. Prochnow -
Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.
-- Horace -
Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.
-- Hosea Ballou -
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The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
-- Idries Shah -
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!
-- Immanuel Kant -
Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.
-- James Cash Penney -
Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue.
-- James HiltonSource : James Hilton (1988). “Lost Horizon”, p.155, Simon and Schuster
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Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.
-- Jane Hirshfield -
the less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.
-- Jane Welsh CarlyleSource : Jane Welsh Carlyle (1977). “I Too Am Here: Selections from the Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle”, p.277, Cambridge University Press
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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.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre -
Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.
-- Jim Elliot -
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Comedians rarely have writers, and if you do it's usually a sign of laziness.
-- Jim Gaffigan -
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.
-- John Lydon -
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The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after.
-- John Lyly -
A writer's work is the product of laziness.
-- Jorge Luis Borges -
Those that dare lose a day, ate dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, are desperate.
-- Joseph Hall -
Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear.
-- Julia Cameron -
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Laziness is the one divine fragment of a godlike existence left to man from paradise.
-- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.
-- Kingsley AmisSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
-- Larry Wall -
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It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.
-- Leslie Charteris -
Everybody has a capacity for a happy life. All these talks about how difficult times we live in, that's just a clever way to justify fear and laziness.
-- Lev Landau -
Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.
-- Lord Chesterfield -
Which is the most universal human characteristic: Fear or laziness?
-- Louis Mackey -
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It's no go the picture palace, it's no go the stadium, It's no go the country cot with a pot of pink geraniums. It's no go the Government grants, it's no go the elections, Sit on your arse for fifty years and hang your hat on a pension.
-- Louis MacNeiceSource : 'Bagpipe Music' (1938)
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Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.
-- Luc de Clapiers -
The idle always have a mind to do something.
-- Luc de Clapiers -
Okay, I'm lazy. But being lazy is a talent. Sometimes it takes an awful lot of work.
-- M.C. Beaton -
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Because you can be lazy if you don't know the truth.
-- Megan Martha WhiteSource : "What's eating Jack?". Interview with Andrew Perry, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2004.
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You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off.
-- Michael GambonSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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It's a disease of critics that once they've labeled someone, it's very hard to change their perspective. It's laziness.
-- Michael Haneke -
Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
-- Miguel de Cervantes -
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We want gain without pain; we want the resurrection without going through the grave; we want life without experiencing death; we want a crown without going by way of the Cross. But in God's economy, the way up is down.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss -
Take yourself by the scruff of the neck and shake off your incarnate laziness.
-- Oswald Chambers -
See what no one else sees. See what everyone chooses not to see - out of fear, conformity, or laziness. See the whole world anew each day.
-- Patch AdamsSource : "Patch Adams". www.imdb.com. 1998.
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The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
-- Paul Cezanne -
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O Laziness, mother of the arts and noble virtues, be thou the balm of human anguish.
-- Paul LafargueSource : Paul Lafargue (2012). “The Right To Be Lazy”, p.36, The Floating Press
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Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.
-- Peter MarshallSource : Dr. Peter Marshall (2016). “Mr. Jones, Meet the Master: Sermons And Prayers Of Peter Marshall”, p.208, Pickle Partners Publishing
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Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.
-- Robert A. Heinlein -
The only thing that might make me stay in bed would be fear. Once I get rest, then I can overcome the fear of a given day and then I'm ready. I'm ready to go. Not that I always have that fear, but sometimes that's the only thing that would keep me in bed more than just the laziness.
-- Robert Duvall -
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The biggest trap, the biggest dungeon in life isn't laziness or bad luck, it's comfort.
-- Robert Kiyosaki -
Idleness leads to relaxation, sooner or later bringing about ideological and material corruption, accompanied by lack of discipline, anarchy chaos and defeat.
-- Samora MachelSource : Samora Machel (1975). “The Tasks Ahead: Selected Speeches of Samora Moises Machel”
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Brethren, the crying sin of the church is her laziness after God.
-- Samuel Chadwick -
It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.
-- Samuel Johnson -
The love of indolence is universal, or next to it.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -
Not doing things you can do is the whole point of laziness. Not doing something you can't do is just sensible.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan -
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The welfare system in this country has literally crippled millions. It has gotten people bound and gagged so that they cannot get off it. It is such a fouled-up system.
-- Shelton Smith -
Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains
-- Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet -
Selfishness is like a disease that suffocates our capacity to love. While love asks us to deny ourselves for the sake of another, selfishness demands we put ourselves first at their expense. When we choose to be self-centered, we become less kind and content—more needy, sensitive, and demanding. More unsatisfiable. Moodiness and impatience, laziness and irresponsibility, are only selfishness in disguise.
-- Stephen KendrickSource : Stephen Kendrick, Alex Kendrick (2013). “The Love Dare for Parents”, p.26, B&H Publishing Group
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I hate nostalgia, it's laziness with prettier accessories ...
-- Tana French -
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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.
-- Tom Hodgkinson -
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.
-- Tom Hodgkinson -
I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
-- Vikram Seth -
No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time is worth nothing.
-- Washington IrvingSource : Washington Irving (2015). “The Complete Short Stories of Washington Irving: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall, Tales of a Traveler, The Alhambra, Woolfert’s Roost & The Crayon Papers Collections (Illustrated): The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, Old Christmas, The Voyage, Roscoe, The Widow’s Retinue, An Old Soldier, Mountjoy, Don Juan, Woolfert’s Roost, Tales of The Alhambra and many more”, p.1110, e-artnow
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