Quotes About Laziness

Doing nothing, badly.

Eventually fired for good, a stay-at-home Shelly brought no benefits to the new household whatsoever. She didn't cook. She didn't clean. All she seemed to like to do was lie around and tell everyone in earshot what they should be doing, though she was never shy about telling others what she deserved, and how they should help her get whatever she wanted.

Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.

Slacker becomes slower if given additional time.

Another form of laziness is thinking: 'That's not for me; it's beyond my abilities. I'd rather not get involved with it.' In other words, you give up the race before you reach the starting line.

Walks swiftly, easily, too easily, slouching a little, a loose kind of ease in motion, as if movement requires no effort whatever, a body to which movement is as natural as immobility, without a definite line to divide them, a light, flowing, lazy ease of motion, an energy so complete that it assumes the ease of laziness. Large

that heavy, indifferent lassitude which is not the will to laziness, but the frustration of the will to a secret violence that no lesser action can satisfy. That

There were always well-developed plans in Jeeter's mind for the things he intended doing; but somehow he never got around to doing them. One day led to the next, and it was much more easy to say he would wait until tomorrow. When that day arrived, he invariably postponed action until a more convenient time. Things had been going along in that easy way for almost a lifetime now; nevertheless

laziness-with it's inebriating effects- is the wine of the poor, and of those who wander among them

I am busy because I am lazy. I indolently let others decide what I will do instead of resolutely deciding myself. It was a favorite theme of C. S. Lewis that only lazy people work hard. By lazily abdicating the essential work of deciding and directing, establishing values and setting goals, other people do it for us.

I'm kind of lazy. I like to lie around with my husband and watch TV and stuff like that.

I am capable of being idle.

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

I'm not a fan of idleness, except in small doses.

If I could stay in a dressing gown all day I would.

I'm incredibly lazy!

The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.

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

It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.

The most basic human impulse is toward entropy and laziness. The less we have to do to grow spiritually, the more likely we are to do it.

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.

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it.

Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.

If I had any choice in the matter, I'd stay in my comfy bed and eat warm chocolate chip cookies all day.