Quotes about Laziness

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. Votes: 6

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish. Votes: 6

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. Votes: 6

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. Votes: 5

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness. Votes: 5

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it. Votes: 4

Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree. Votes: 4

The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris. Votes: 4

Laziness in prayer is like handing the devil a key to your house. Votes: 4

Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains Votes: 4

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. Votes: 4

Laziness is always your fault. It is the sign that a man has persevered in uselessness for too long. Votes: 4

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. Votes: 4

Laziness works. And the simple way to incorporate its health benefits into your life is simply to take a nap. Votes: 4

You must work and do good, not be lazy and gamble, if you wish to earn happiness. Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. Votes: 4

Laziness breeds humors of the blood. Votes: 3

Laziness is a programmers main virtue. Votes: 3

Laziness is the mother of all evils. Votes: 3

Laziness is built deep into our nature. Votes: 3

One musts avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness. Votes: 3

Laziness means more work in the long run. Votes: 3

Work is not a shame. Laziness is a shame. Votes: 3

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence. Votes: 3

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence Votes: 3

Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue. Votes: 3

Laziness has many disguises. Soon "winter doldrums" will become "spring fever." Votes: 3

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness. Votes: 3

Laziness is the one divine fragment of a godlike existence left to man from paradise. Votes: 3

Laziness - The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age. Votes: 3

O Laziness, mother of the arts and noble virtues, be thou the balm of human anguish. Votes: 3

Laziness is the road to progress, but only when it is allied to intelligent thought and high ambition. Votes: 3

Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself. Votes: 3

Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails. Votes: 3

Hard work pays off in the future but requires discomfort now. Laziness pays off now but guarantees discomfort in the future. Votes: 3

Laziness is when your sleep overcomes your passion, not under the influence of drugs but under the control of excuses and procrastination! Votes: 3

Laziness has made our cities unclean. If we begin to work and act appropriately, we will clean our cities of any dirt. Votes: 3

Laziness bears the fruit of hunger and crimes, and those who choose the right path are those willing to pay the price Votes: 3

Laziness is the one common deficiency in mankind that blocks the establishment of a perfect world in which everyone leads a happy life. Votes: 3

Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction. Votes: 3

Laziness is contagious just like hard work is. I didn't give myself an opportunity to be lazy and I didn't surround myself with people who are lazy. Votes: 3

Incivility is not a Vice of the Soul, but the effect of several Vices; of Vanity, Ignorance of Duty, Laziness, Stupidity, Distraction, Contempt of others, and Jealousy. Votes: 3

Woe to the lazy man! Laziness is an evil disease which you must not let seize you in childhood, for when you grow up it cannot be cured. Chapter 25 Votes: 3

Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in the practice. It does take work and it ain't easy - but man, the rewards! Votes: 3

If you are planning to work very hard, start working by screwing around! Lounge about at home; fool around in the streets or in the fields! Laziness will fill you with energy! Votes: 3

Laziness begat wearisomeness, and this put men in quest of diversions, play and company, on which however it is a constant attendant; he who works hard, has enough to do with himself otherwise. Votes: 3

I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy. Votes: 2

People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy. Votes: 2

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. Votes: 2

The lazy are always wanting to do something. Votes: 2

That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided. Votes: 2

Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence. Votes: 2

I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy. Votes: 2

I like the word "indolence." It makes my laziness seem classy. Votes: 2

Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness. Votes: 2

Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle. Votes: 2

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. Votes: 2

Fanatic is often the name given to people of action by people who are lazy. Votes: 2

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom. Votes: 2

Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body. Votes: 2

Run away from laziness; work hard. Touch intuition and listen to the heart, not marketing directors. Dream. Votes: 2

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them. Votes: 2

I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness. Votes: 2

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends. Votes: 2

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it. Votes: 2

Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. Votes: 2

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. Votes: 2

In reality, everyone is good in bed. Close eyes. Shutdown brain. Pause as necessary. Restart brain. Open eyes. What's there to not be good at? Bed is the one place where laziness is rewarded. Votes: 2

There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it. Votes: 2

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. Votes: 2

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness. Votes: 2

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly. Votes: 2

The reason laziness is rarely pushed as a lifestyle option is down to one simple reason: money. There are fortunes to be made out of active lifestyles. Gyms charge fees. But no one is going to make money out of sleep. It is free. Votes: 2

It's amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people yourself is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral, self-righteous, bullying laziness. Votes: 2

My mum thought my TV and film addiction was laziness. If you're an immigrant, you know you'll never be an accepted part of society, but you hope your children will be, and you try to make them essential to the community in a practical way - being a doctor or a lawyer. Acting was beyond their comprehension. Votes: 2

I hate the hand that comes out of a car and just drops litter in the street. I hate that! For some reason, it just fills me with fury! It's just utter laziness, lack of interest in other people, lack of interest in the planet, in the hedgehog who might eat the plastic bag, it's a lack of concern. Votes: 2

Tradition is laziness. Votes: 0

Efficiency is intelligent laziness Votes: 0

Faith is intellectual laziness. Votes: 0

Nothing ages like laziness. Votes: 0

Negativity is basically laziness. Votes: 0

My comedy is romanticized laziness. Votes: 0

My ambition is handicapped by laziness Votes: 0

Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness. Votes: 0

We are not the slaves of laziness, Votes: 0

If we're not careful we spiritualize laziness. Votes: 0

I hate nostalgia, it's laziness with prettier accessories ... Votes: 0

A writer's work is the product of laziness. Votes: 0

Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear. Votes: 0

God is missed through laziness, indifference and unwillingness. Votes: 0

There is a great volcano sleeping in every laziness! Votes: 0

I have little tolerance for incompetence, sloppy thinking, and laziness. Votes: 0

Which is the most universal human characteristic: Fear or laziness? Votes: 0

Zombies weren't the true plague of the world, laziness was. Votes: 0

But tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness. Votes: 0

It is sheer laziness not compressing thought into a reasonable space. Votes: 0

There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps. Votes: 0

Our minds are as much given to laziness as our bodies. Votes: 0

From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions. Votes: 0

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar. Votes: 0

Brethren, the crying sin of the church is her laziness after God. Votes: 0

The bias of the mainstream media is toward sensationalism, conflict, and laziness. Votes: 0

Curiosity, rationalization, and laziness are no match against courage, self-control, and mental toughness. Votes: 0

Normal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery. Votes: 0

Golden opportunities are nothing to laziness, but industry makes the commonest chances golden. Votes: 0

If we don't progress, we backslide into bad habits, laziness and poor attitude. Votes: 0

The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age. Votes: 0

We are not the slaves of laziness, we are the slaves of WiFi. Votes: 0

I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect. Votes: 0

My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline. Votes: 0

The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life. Votes: 0

The trouble with the world is that laziness is seldom curable and never fatal. Votes: 0

Take yourself by the scruff of the neck and shake off your incarnate laziness. Votes: 0

Comedians rarely have writers, and if you do it's usually a sign of laziness. Votes: 0

My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants. Votes: 0

I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything. Votes: 0

The biggest trap, the biggest dungeon in life isn't laziness or bad luck, it's comfort. Votes: 0

Buzyness, however, is moral laziness because it involves refusing to live with courage and intentionality. Votes: 0

Typographical laziness was slowly destroying our culture, according to Lexa and her pals. Inexactitude was death. Votes: 0

The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy. Votes: 0

I believe email-based status reports are the clearest and best signs of managerial incompetence and laziness. Votes: 0

Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness. Votes: 0

A holiday is for kindness, compassion, love, and holiness; it is not for laziness or craziness. Votes: 0

Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government. Votes: 0

It is not the dream of what you're feeling laziness, if not, the sleep of exhaustion. Votes: 0

The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom. Votes: 0

True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom. Votes: 0

It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility. Votes: 0

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit. Votes: 0

Negativity is basically laziness. It takes a lot of hard work to remain positive, but positivity always pays off. Votes: 0

There is a - deep down, underneath all the work I do, I think there's a laziness in me. Votes: 0

There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort. Votes: 0

Cut the bondage of all worldly affections; go beyond laziness and all care as to what becomes of you. Votes: 0

It's a disease of critics that once they've labeled someone, it's very hard to change their perspective. It's laziness. Votes: 0

But poverty, with most who whimper forth Their long complaints, is self-inflicted woe; The effect of laziness, or sottish write. Votes: 0

Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris. Votes: 0

Human laziness makes people pigeonhole one another at first site so that they find nothing in common with one another. Votes: 0

The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life. Votes: 0

Most people think of Las Vegas, and they think of extravagance. But it's really a mix between fantasy and laziness. Votes: 0

I tend to write and record things quite quickly. You can tamper with things for years, and it's artistic laziness sometimes. Votes: 0

Excellence is being thwarted not only by laziness but by reckless attachment to causes, programs, and - in some cases, leaders. Votes: 0

Not doing things you can do is the whole point of laziness. Not doing something you can't do is just sensible. Votes: 0

I'm a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black,...an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive. Votes: 0

I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows. Votes: 0

Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments. Votes: 0

His idleness was his refuge, and in this he was like many others in [occupied] France in that period; laziness became political. Votes: 0

Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Votes: 0

When people wish for harmony, I wish for chaos. I'd rather see imaginative means of self-destruction, than to see laziness and wasted potential. Votes: 0

Change is hard because people wear themselves out. And that’s the second surprise about change: What looks like laziness is often exhaustion. Votes: 0

The ultimate laziness is not using Perl. That saves you so much work you wouldn't believe it if you had never tried it. Votes: 0

Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues. Votes: 0

Rising early and scorning laziness, remaining calm in time of strife, faultless in conduct and clever in actions. One like this will be praised. Votes: 0

My whole comic persona is that of a guy who explores the id: I romanticize gluttony, I romanticize laziness, and people identify with that. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

No one knows just how the idea of a soul or the supernatural started... It probably had its origin in the general laziness of mankind. Votes: 0

You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride, or laziness of mind. Votes: 0

See what no one else sees. See what everyone chooses not to see - out of fear, conformity, or laziness. See the whole world anew each day. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

Your knowledge is not a substitute for your passion. No matter how knowledgeable you are, when laziness takes the lead in your daily decisions, your knowledge becomes valueless! Votes: 0

Deliver us from evil - from moral duplicity and weakness, from laziness and spiritual complacency, from those lies we tell ourselves from our fear of facing the truth. Votes: 0

Nobody can see pain. They have no frame of reference for pain that's happening to someone else. They can only see inactivity - which they interpret as laziness. Votes: 0

There's nothing new about anti-work philosophy. History is dotted with individuals and groups who decided that laziness was next to godliness and work was a waste of time. Votes: 0

Everybody has a capacity for a happy life. All these talks about how difficult times we live in, that's just a clever way to justify fear and laziness. Votes: 0

Everyone thinks I must have been an ace in school. But I didn't work hard, I was lazy. I liked to be lazy. I thought laziness stimulated your imagination. Votes: 0

I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen. Votes: 0

When you give someone a commitment to ride their horse, you do it - unless, God forbid, something serious has happened. It would be laziness not to do it. Votes: 0

We know how often in our lives through laziness and cowardice we give up the battle and try to hypnotise our minds into the belief that we are brave. Votes: 0

To tear ourselves away from the everyday, from habit, from mental laziness which hides from us the strangeness of reality, we must receive something like a real bludgeon blow. Votes: 0

There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs. Votes: 0

Cliché activates the comfortable mental laziness, we sort of revert to the domain of the already-familiar, what we have already imagined so that it doesn't seem that bad. Votes: 0

Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to the conservatism, laziness and irrationality of men and women. Votes: 0

People who have read a good deal rarely make great discoveries. I do not say this in excuse of laziness, but because invention presupposes an extensive independent contemplation of things. Votes: 0

There is no such thing as senility when it comes to envy, greed laziness, wrath and pride. It's her destructive character from childhood." ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You Votes: 0

Not wanting to see, not wanting to be in touch with one's experience is something akin to cognitive laziness, an eclipse of the experiencer or inner witnessing in the person. Votes: 0

A draw may be the beautiful and logical result of fine attacks and parries; and the public ought to appreciate such games, in contrast, of course, to the fear-and-laziness draws. Votes: 0

The biggest challenge you have is to challenge your own self doubt and your laziness. It is your self doubt and your laziness that defines and limit who you are. Votes: 0

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. Votes: 0

Things come in a quieter way to me. It's not laziness, and it's not diffidence. I just know how far you have to bend for work. That's important for me. Votes: 0

My laziness is really profound. I'm really interested in where it comes from - it almost feels chemical. And we've all got ADD now, short attention span and all that. Votes: 0

A BURNING DESIRE TO BE, AND TO DO is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition. Votes: 0

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom. Votes: 0

Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness, but I don't argue with it especially as I am rarely in a position to prove that it is mistaken. Negative proof is usually impossible. Votes: 0

Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions. Votes: 0

The day was made for laziness, and lying on one's back in green places, and staring at the sky till its brightness forced one to shut one's eyes and go to sleep... Votes: 0

Someone may have all the technical knowledge, scientific intellect and business know-how but when he/she decides to choose laziness, excuses, procrastination, complaining and other bad attitudes, his/her relevance is meaningless. Votes: 0

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." Votes: 0

As for discipline—it's important, but sort of overrated. The more important virtue for a writer, I believe, is self-forgiveness. Because your writing will always disappoint you. Your laziness will always disappoint you. Votes: 0

Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. Votes: 0

Shall we keep our hands in our bosom, or stretch ourselves on our beds of laziness, while all the world about us is hard at work, in pursuing the designs of its creation? Votes: 0

I suppose what I like about Zen is that the teachers are constantly questioning your insight and challenging it, looking for sloppiness or laziness in it, and ways you can go past that. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

Simplifying our lives does not mean sinking into idleness, but on the contrary, getting rid of the most subtle aspect of laziness: the one which makes us take on thousands of less important activities. Votes: 0

Often, psychological laziness will have you switch your life over to autopilot and fall asleep at the wheel rather than stay awake to what will fulfill your heart's deepest desires and your soul's purpose. Votes: 0

Before making a great movement, stay motionless for a good while! If you give legs to the rocks, they will start running like crazy horses! Stillness accumulates liveliness; laziness accumulates industriousness; sleep accumulates motion! Votes: 0

Constancy, far from being a virtue, seems often to be the besetting sin of the human race, daughter of laziness and self-sufficiency, sister of sleep, the cause of most wars and practically all persecutions. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I often make films about subjects I don't really know much about. Maybe it's laziness, but I don't go in there having done a tonne of research; the research happens while I'm making the film. Votes: 0

It is not uncommon to meet pastors' wives who really let themselves go; they sometimes feel that because their husband is a pastor, he is therefore trapped into fidelity, which gives them cause for laziness, Votes: 0

Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a seed shut up in the pod, and art without practice is nothing. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is easy, out of laziness, out of weakness, to throw oneself into the lap of deity, saying, 'I couldn't help it; the way was set.' But think of the glory of the choice! Votes: 0

Users of clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War produces many euphemisms, downplaying or giving verbal respectability to savagery and slaughter. Votes: 0