Quotes About Laziness

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

Which is the most universal human characteristic: fear, or laziness?

A Bradypus or Sloth am I, / I live a life of ease, / Contented not to do or die / But idle as I please.

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

Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.

Reagan had argued that Americans could escape poor living conditions if they so chose. All they needed to do was to "vote with their feet." They could just move along. Those who remained, he seemed to suggest, did so because they wanted to or were too lazy to aspire to something more. This was the lie.

You know you are getting old when it takes too much effort to procrastinate.

They learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.

Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:So shall thy poverty come as one that traveleth, and thy want as an armed man.

A future with automation is the equivalent as the past with primitive technology. It is the abstract factor that will ruin the utmost ambitions of our families' generations. To combat this 'societal plague' is to combat laziness, similar to defending against our negative mentality.

I hate not working. It's that lack of purpose. It becomes very easy to lie in until midday.

Granpa said he seen that and so he knowed. Granpa said ye had to understand. But most people didn't want to-it was too much trouble-so they used words to cover their own laziness and called other folks shiftless.

After the first glass of vodka you can accept just about anything of life even your own mysteriousness you think it is nice that a box of matches is purple and brown and is called La Petite and comes from Sweden for they are words that you know and that is all you know words not their feelings or what they mean and you write because you know them not because you understand them because you don't you are stupid and lazy and will never be great but you do what you know because what else is there?

Es gibt zwei menschliche Hauptsünden, aus welchen sich alle andern ableiten: Ungeduld und Lässigkeit. Wegen der Ungeduld sind sie aus dem Paradiese vertrieben worden, wegen der Lässigkeit kehren sie nicht zurück. Vielleicht aber gibt es nur eine Hauptsünde: die Ungeduld. Wegen der Ungeduld sind sie vertrieben worden, wegen der Ungeduld kehren sie nicht zurück.

There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: impatience and laziness. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of laziness we cannot return. Perhaps, however, there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out, because of impatience we cannot return.

he gave way to a pleasant lassitude

Ä°nsan?n belli baÅŸl? iki günah? vard?r, öbürleri bunlardan ç?kar: sab?rs?zl?k ve tembellik. Sab?rs?z olduklar? için Cennet'ten kovuldular, tembelliklerinden geri dönemiyorlar. Ama belki de belli baÅŸl? sadece bir günahlar? var: Sab?rs?zl?k. Sab?rs?zl?klar?ndan ötürü kovulmuÅŸlard?, sab?rs?zl?klar?ndan ötürü geri dönemiyorlar.

Laziness is almost as compelling as life. The new farce you're having to play crushes you with its banality, and all in all it takes more cowardice than courage to start all over again.

Laziness is almost as compelling as life.

Extension of ourselves or moving out against the inertia of laziness we call work. Moving out in the face of fear we call courage.

The idea that God is actively nurturing us so that we might grow up to be like Him brings us face to face with our own laziness.

Being about spiritual growth, this book is inevitably about the other side of the same coin: the impediments to spiritual growth. Ultimately there is only the one impediment, and that is laziness. If we overcome laziness, all the other impediments will be overcome. If we do not overcome laziness, none of the others will be hurdled.

As I have defined it, love is the antithesis of laziness. Ordinary laziness is a passive failure to love. Some ordinarily lazy people may not lift a finger to extend themselves unless they are compelled to do so. Their being is a manifestation of nonlove; still, they are not evil.

for godhood and the hope for mankind, and within each of us is the original sin of laziness, the ever-present force of entropy pushing us back to childhood, to the womb and to the swamps from which we have evolved.