Best 324 quotes in «laziness quotes» category

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.

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.

Rags will always make their appearance where they have a right to do it.

Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po.

Rising early and scorning laziness, remaining calm in time of strife, faultless in conduct and clever in actions. One like this will be praised.

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy.

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.

Sloth is all passions the most powerful.

Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.

Probably the most honest "self-made person" ever was the one we heard say: "I got to the top the hard way - fighting my own laziness and ignorance every step of the way.

Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.

Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.

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

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

Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?

The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.

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.

The lazy manage to keep up with the earth's rotation just as well as the industrious.

The habit of taking the line of least resistance makes all rivers and some men crooked.

The lazy are always wanting to do something.

The lazy man claims he is too heavy for light work and too light for heavy work.

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.

The longer a soul hath neglected duty, the more ado there is to get it taken up.

The only menace is inertia.

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

The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.

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.

There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.

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

There is nothing more dangerous than a lazy parent.

There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.

There're so many things I want to do, like become more media savvy. I am too lazy. But I'm making an effort.

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

There is a trend today that would put a new robe on the prodigal son while he is still feeding hogs. Some would put the ring on his finger while he still in the pigsty. Others would paint the pigsty and advocate bigger and better hog pens.

There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.

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.

The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable.

The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.

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

The ultimate laziness is not using Perl. That saves you so much work you wouldn't believe it if you had never tried it.

The scent of Sloth tempts a smug man.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Turn on the prudent Ant, thy heedful eyes, Observe her labours, Sluggard, and be wise.

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.

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