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Laziness

He also who is slack in his work is brother to him who destroys. [Proverbs 18:9]
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Laziness Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Laziness

1.
The idle always have a mind to do something.
Vauvenargues, Marquis De

2.
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
Renard, Jules

3.
Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
Thomas a Kempis

4.
Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay.
Weaver, Richard

5.
He that is busy is tempted by but one devil; he that is idle, by a legion.
Thomas Fuller

6.
There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.
Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

7.
A young man idle, an old man needy.
Proverb, English

8.
Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise.
Johnson, Samuel

9.
The sluggard does not plow after the season, so he begs during the harvest and has nothing. [Proverbs 20:4]
Bible

10.
The only menace is inertia.
Perse, St. John

11.
I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
Petty, Tom

12.
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
Mary Wilson Little

13.
Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Thomas Jefferson

14.
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
Jules Renard

15.
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
Jules Renard

16.
Sloth is the key to poverty.
Proverb

17.
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

18.
You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.
Horace

19.
We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.
Mandeville, Bernard

20.
I slip from workaholic to bum real easy.
Broderick, Matthew

21.
The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked.
Hill, Napoleon

22.
Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
Cervantes, Miguel De

23.
If you're coasting, you're either losing momentum or else you're headed downhill.
Welsh, Joan

24.
We have so many labor-saving devices today that we go broke keeping them repaired. Everything is easier, but requires greater maintenance.
Sanny, Lorne

25.
He also who is slack in his work is brother to him who destroys. [Proverbs 18:9]
Bible

26.
A loafer always has the correct time.
Hubbard, Kin

27.
Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains. The more one has to do, the more he is able to accomplish.
Buxton, Thomas

28.
Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.
Hippocrates

29.
Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.
Hubbard, Kin

30.
Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.
Vauvenargues, Marquis De

31.
Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.
Floyd Dell

32.
That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.
Pliny the Younger

33.
Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
Bierce, Ambrose

34.
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
Franklin, Benjamin

35.
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

36.
Too many young people itch for what they want without scratching for it.
Taylor, Thomas

37.
If a man will not work, he shall not eat.
Bible

38.
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

39.
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
Soren Kierkegaard

40.
Towards evening the lazy person begins to get busy.
Proverb, German

41.
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

42.
The lazier a man is, the more he plans to do tomorrow.
Proverb, Norwegian

43.
Some men are so lazy they won't even feed themselves.
Bible


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