Motivational Quotes

Laziness

I slip from workaholic to bum real easy.

- Broderick, Matthew

Best Quotes about Laziness

The idle always have a mind to do something.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.

Pliny the Younger

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

Jules Renard

Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Thomas Jefferson

Some men are so lazy they won't even feed themselves.

Bible

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.

Connolly, Cyril

The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked.

Hill, Napoleon

Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.

Floyd Dell

Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.

Hippocrates

10.

He that is busy is tempted by but one devil; he that is idle, by a legion.

Thomas Fuller

11.

Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay.

Weaver, Richard

12.

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

Soren Kierkegaard

13.

Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise.

Johnson, Samuel

14.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Renard, Jules

15.

We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.

Mandeville, Bernard

16.

The lazier a man is, the more he plans to do tomorrow.

Proverb, Norwegian

17.

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.

Thomas a Kempis

18.

Sloth is the key to poverty.

Proverb

19.

We have so many labor-saving devices today that we go broke keeping them repaired. Everything is easier, but requires greater maintenance.

Sanny, Lorne

20.

You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

Horace

21.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

22.

The only menace is inertia.

Perse, St. John

23.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

A loafer always has the correct time.

Hubbard, Kin

25.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

26.

I slip from workaholic to bum real easy.

Broderick, Matthew

27.

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.

Agatha Christie

28.

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Jules Renard

29.

It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all.

Proverb, Indian

30.

A young man idle, an old man needy.

Proverb, English

31.

Too many young people itch for what they want without scratching for it.

Taylor, Thomas

32.

If a man will not work, he shall not eat.

Bible

33.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

Cervantes, Miguel De

34.

Towards evening the lazy person begins to get busy.

Proverb, German

35.

Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.

Hubbard, Kin

36.

My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a delightful sensation about three degrees on this sight of faintness -- if I had teeth of pearl and the breath of lilies I should call it languor -- but as I am I must call it laziness. In this state of effeminacy the fibers of the brain are relaxed in common with the rest of the body, and to such a happy degree that pleasure has no show of enticement and pain no unbearable frown. Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.

Keats, John

37.

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

Mary Wilson Little

38.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

39.

I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.

Petty, Tom

40.

The sluggard does not plow after the season, so he begs during the harvest and has nothing. [Proverbs 20:4]