Quotes About Laziness

If your armor against the world is laziness and excuses, you're not protecting yourself from battle and injury — you've trapped yourself inside with them.

Exercise?! I thought you said "extra slice."

We are a down-trodden race." "You are a down-trodden race because you are lazy," said Chilke. "If I am lazy and you are not, how is it that I am carrying your baggage while you walk light-foot?" For a moment or two Chilke deigned no explanation of the seeming paradox; then he said: "If you knew anything about the laws of economics, you would not ask such a banal question.

He considered betrayal of duty, cowardice, lying, and laziness the vilest of all sins, and he praised those who put personal honor above their well-being, or even their life. He knew he could never depend on those who valued riches over honor. "Such people are base, craven, and they are slaves by nature," wrote Juvaini. "Genghis Khan despised and destroyed them without mercy."22

Nothing in the world is better suited to laziness than orthodoxy. If you gag your mouth, stop up your ears and put a blinder over your eyes, you can sleep peacefully.

A lot of nonsense is spoken about work. Some of the finest men I've known were the laziest. Never work because it's expected of you. Find out how much work you must do to live and be happy. Don't do any more.

The lazy man does the hardest work"

The city is dirty due to the laziness of the citizens in the country.

A diligent ant is more useful than a lazy cow.

Instead of imitating me, you simply loiter.

Sleepwalking is the perfect exorcise for lazy people

Ricky Gervais captured the staggering laziness that comes with a boring job.

I call that man idle who might be better employed.

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

A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

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

Laziness breeds humors of the blood

It has flowered; flowered from vanity, ambition, idealism, passion, loneliness, courage, laziness, the usual seeds

My ambition is handicapped by laziness

Addiction, self-sabotage, procrastination, laziness, rage, chronic fatigue, and depression are all ways that we withhold our full participation in the program of life we are offered. When the conscious mind cannot find a reason to say no, the unconscious says no in its own way.

The landmines in his arsenal include such sins as pride, jealousy and envy, disappointment, unforgiveness, compromise, sexual temptation, fear, and laziness—which God also calls slothfulness. Each one is designed by Satan to discourage you and keep you from reaching your full potential. That happened in Saul's life. He never fully became the person God created him to be because he allowed pride to enter his heart. If we are not discerning and wise, the same will be true of us.

Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle