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Quotes About Laziness

Do I love laziness more than I love the feeling of accomplishing work? I take the path of least resistance and curl up with a book.
~ Sylvia Plath
These days no one challenges us,' he said. 'And because there is no challenge, there is no reason to work hard. And with no reason to work hard, we have all become lazy.
~ Tahir Shah
Because there is no challenge, there is no reason to work hard. And with no reason to work hard, we all have become lazy. Lazy people are like cancer. They spread. Before you know it, the entire country is destroyed.
~ Tahir Shah
I seem to be allergic to diligence
~ Junot Diaz
Pretty much all of my inventions come about the same way. I have an everyday problem or something that I'm too lazy to do, so I make a machine that does it for me.
~ Simone Giertz
Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.
~ Ezra Cornell
The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it be said, their cowardice at the decisive moment of the struggle will give rise to tragic mishaps.
~ Frantz Fanon
In order to discredit faith and seduce believers, Kant does not hesitate to appeal to pride or vanity: whoever does not rely on reason alone is a "minor" who refuses to "grow up"; if men allow themselves to be led by "authorities" instead of "thinking for themselves," it is solely through laziness and cowardice, neither more nor less. A thinker who needs to make use of such means — which on the whole are demagogic — must indeed be short of serious arguments.
~ Frithjof Schuon
Llarimar had told him to do his best. That sounded like an awful lot of work. Unfortunately, doing nothing was beginning to seem like even MORE work.
~ Brandon Sanderson
We are all subject to forgetfulness of God's faithfulness in the past, laziness to act on the divine promise, and postponing until tomorrow what Jesus is asking of us today: childlike abandonment in trust.
~ Brennan Manning
Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.
~ Henry David Thoreau
An unclean person is universally a slothful one.
~ Henry David Thoreau
the devil finds employment for the idle —
~ Henry David Thoreau
Do empenho vem a sabedoria e a pureza; da preguiça a ignorância e a sensualidade
~ Henry David Thoreau
To think that he can lie beside that furnace I stoked for him and do nothing but make water!
~ Henry Miller
I am so lazy. I really don't have a regimen. When I was younger I used to be into cardio and taebo and step-orobics and hiking. Lately, I haven't done anything at all. I'd like to get into yoga, but I've been really bad.
~ Bianca Lawson
I'm incredibly lazy. On a day off, I'm more likely to be sitting on our sofa reading a book than out and about being active. I sometimes do a bit of yoga but I find it hard to get motivated for any kind of physical exercise.
~ Phoebe Fox
I have a treadmill in the house but I never use it.
~ Nicola Roberts
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.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
When I have time off, all I want to do is do nothing.
~ Niall Horan
Some women just skip having babies or adopt because they don't want to get fat or they haven't put in the time to find a partner. It's great to adopt, but a lot of adoptions are motivated by vanity and laziness.
~ Jaime Pressly
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.
~ Tom Hodgkinson
I nearly slept through my entire senior year. I'm fairly convinced they just gave me a diploma just to get me out of school.
~ Denny Hamlin
Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly.
~ Elizabeth Hurley