Best 324 quotes in «laziness quotes» category

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.

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

Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.

Laziness is the one divine fragment of a godlike existence left to man from paradise.

Laziness has many disguises. Soon "winter doldrums" will become "spring fever.

Laziness works. And the simple way to incorporate its health benefits into your life is simply to take a nap.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

Laziness is a programmers main virtue.

Lazy people always work harder than anyone else; they're so eager to get through and lie down again.

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

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

Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.

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.

Many say they can't get God's guidance, when they really mean they wish He would show them an easier way.

Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.

Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and nudity would burden them.

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

Much of my work has come from being lazy.

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.

Negativity is basically laziness.

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

Once Fang took pep pills and they worked - the only time he ever ran to bed.

Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to it himself.

Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!

Okay, I'm lazy. But being lazy is a talent. Sometimes it takes an awful lot of work.

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

Once you start making money, you can be an ass. But I am not an ass. I'm too lazy, that takes a lot of energy.

One musts avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness.

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.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.

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

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

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.

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?

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

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

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

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

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 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.