Quotes About Laziness

If I gave in to my nature, I'd lie in bed until afternoon, you can believe me. It's actually hypocrisy for me to get up so early.

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

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things. Benjamin Franklin

Indolence is the beginning of all vice, because in a condition of slothful dreaming the libido has abundant opportunity for sinking into itself...

I am not busy. I am the laziest ambitious person I know.

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

Leisure: A fancy word for people who don't want to admit they're bored.

There may be arrogance – and the laziness of someone who is indefatigable when doing what he enjoys, but only when doing that.

Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a proportion of men, long after nature has released them from alien guidance, nonetheless gladly remain in lifelong immaturity, and why it is so easy for others to establish themselves as their guardians...

The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.

Employment... is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered the mother of misery.

Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes.

Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.

We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies.

He is idle that might be better employed.

Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously.

Leisure: A fancy word for people who don't want to admit they're bored.

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.

Im pretty lazy when it comes to creativity. I just want it to be easy and fun.

It (becoming disheartened) is insidious, buried, sticky . . . like a weird smell you can't quite pinpoint and eventually get used to. Becoming disheartened is actually one of three forms of laziness; the others are procrastination and being too busy.

As far as I can tell, they never get up before noon unless there's some sort of national emergency, like my leg hair.

For me, it´s sloth," I say. "Hedonistic sloth and escapism.

Hard work isn't enough. And more work is never the real answer. The sort of grit you need to scale a business is less reliant on brute force. It's actually one part determination, one part ingenuity, and one part laziness.