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Quotes About Laziness

Nobody wants to work. Not even the breath wants to work.
~ H.W.L. Poonja
Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague us worse?
~ Hannah More
I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.
~ Harold Ramis
Human nature is above all things lazy.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
He couldn't understand that, she thought, because he had no purpose to his life. He was a couch potato. He'd reverted back to childhood. He was a wasteoid. He was the man of her dreams, and she was afraid living with him would be a nightmare. His laziness and lack of motivation would drive her crazy
~ Janet Evanovich
I've seen guys sit the whole day doing nothing, and I hate it when people are unproductive. I don't like a guy who sits on the couch all day.
~ Olga Kurylenko
When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away.
~ Robert M. Hutchins
Negativity is basically laziness. It takes a lot of hard work to remain positive, but positivity always pays off.
~ RuPaul
A rich and varied menu is for people who have no work to do.
~ Roald Amundsen
If I don't work, I'll be sitting on the couch watching TV, eating popcorn and getting like a cow.
~ Celia Cruz
You must work and do good, not be lazy and gamble, if you wish to earn happiness. Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
~ Anne Frank
Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.
~ Henry Ford
Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.
~ Albert Einstein
Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.
~ Hesiod
Laziness begat wearisomeness, and this put men in quest of diversions, play and company, on which however it is a constant attendant; he who works hard, has enough to do with himself otherwise.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
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, Warbreaker
Never get out of bed before noon.
~ Charles Bukowski
If you have to be at work at 8, it's always like, 7:54. Just enough time to do nothing. To just lay there and go, "I can't do anything! I can't even have an English muffin!
~ Dane Cook
Hunger is an altogether fit companion for the idle man.
~ Hesiod
Doing less meaningless work, so that you can focus on things of greater personal importance, is NOT laziness.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Being busy is a form of laziness—lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being overwhelmed is often as unproductive as doing nothing, and is far more unpleasant. Being selective—doing less—is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Doing less meaningless work, so that you can focus on things of greater personal importance, is NOT laziness. This is hard for most to accept, because our culture tends to reward personal sacrifice instead of personal productivity.
~ Timothy Ferriss
I concentrate on exercises from the waist down, since that is the laziest part of a woman's body.
~ Tina Louise