Best 324 quotes in «laziness quotes» category

Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there wasn't anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of a success than an angleworm is

Deep down I'm a lazy person in a constantly moving body.

Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear.

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

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

Don't tolerate lazy people. They are losers.

Every man is as lazy as he dares to be.

From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.

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

For the lazy, all work is difficult.

God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.

I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive.

I ask myself, 'why am I so lazy?' and am too lazy to reply.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Humanity is constitutionally lazy.

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

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues

I'd love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don't consider laziness a sin at all.

Idleness leads to relaxation, sooner or later bringing about ideological and material corruption, accompanied by lack of discipline, anarchy chaos and defeat.

If we don't come apart; we will come apart.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

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

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.

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

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

I hate nostalgia, it's laziness with prettier accessories.

I have little tolerance for incompetence, sloppy thinking, and laziness.

I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.

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

I remember once a vocational director said to Fang, "You must develop some mechanical skills - like getting out of bed.

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

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.

I think that we give the impression, to carry on your metaphor, that we go a little faster than we actually do. I'm fairly lazy so I'm always interested in slowing down.

I think of myself as a very lazy author.

I think that laziness in many ways is the human condition, and that's what has led us to this place where, as we've developed technology.

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

It is easier to mend neglect than to quicken love.

It is my greatest misfortune to be too lazy, and by the few mortifications I have already set with on that account I predict many evils in my future life. I have always the inclination to do what I ought; but by continually procrastinating for tomorrow the business of today, I insensibly delay, until at the end of one month I find myself in the same place as when I began it.

It is sheer laziness not compressing thought into a reasonable space.

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

Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.

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

It's easier to pick off a fast runner than to pick off a lazy runner.

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

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

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.

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

Laziness is a programmers main virtue.