Motivational Quotes

Laziness

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

Best Quotes about Laziness

1.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

2.

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

Welsh, Joan

3.

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

4.

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

5.

The idle always have a mind to do something.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

6.

Towards evening the lazy person begins to get busy.

Proverb, German

7.

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

Mandeville, Bernard

8.

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

Bible

9.

A loafer always has the correct time.

Hubbard, Kin

10.

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

Sanny, Lorne

11.

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

12.

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

Weaver, Richard

13.

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

Thomas a Kempis

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

Bible

16.

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

Thomas Fuller

17.

That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.

Pliny the Younger

18.

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

Hippocrates

19.

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

Renard, Jules

20.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

21.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

22.

You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

Horace

23.

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

Hill, Napoleon

24.

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

Johnson, Samuel

25.

Sloth is the key to poverty.

Proverb

26.

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

Jules Renard

27.

A young man idle, an old man needy.

Proverb, English

28.

I slip from workaholic to bum real easy.

Broderick, Matthew

29.

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

Jules Renard

30.

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

Proverb, Norwegian

31.

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

Bible

32.

Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.

Hubbard, Kin

33.

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

Mary Wilson Little

34.

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

Thomas Jefferson

35.

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

36.

I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.

Petty, Tom

37.

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

Taylor, Thomas

38.

The only menace is inertia.

Perse, St. John

39.

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

40.

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

Soren Kierkegaard

41.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

Cervantes, Miguel De

42.

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

Floyd Dell

43.

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