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Quotes About Laziness

The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.
~ W.C. Fields
Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but ignores its relation to the past; neither the lazy nor the impatient man, that is, accepts the present instant in its full reality and so cannot love his neighbour completely.
~ W.H. Auden
Buzyness, however, is moral laziness because it involves refusing to live with courage and intentionality.
~ Dan B. Allender
True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom.
~ Dwight L. Moody
Pico Mundo is a prosperous town. But no degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.
~ Dean Koontz
no degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.
~ Dean Koontz
I prefer atrophy over exercise any day.
~ Karen Duffy
I just don't care to work that hard.
~ Fred MacMurray
'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain,"You have wak'd me too soon, I must slumber again."
~ Isaac Watts
R]eal prayer is not an excuse for laziness but, in fact, is one of the most arduous engagements I know of in ministry. Prayer is not a replacement for hard work but, in most cases, empowerment for even more fruitful work.
~ Daniel Henderson
To be violent is the ultimate laziness. War always seems a great effort, but it is the easy way. And false non-violence is also an idol.
~ Peter Brook
It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Loosed of his burden, Christian makes his way to the bottom of the hill where he finds three men fast asleep. Foolish represents spiritual dullness and ignorance. Sloth represents spiritual laziness. Presumption represents spiritual pride and arrogance. The consequences of all three conditions are self-inflicted incarceration and lack of progress on the King's Highway. 5.
~ John Bunyan
The way of the slothful man is as a hedge of thorns, but the path of the righteous is made plain. –
~ John Bunyan
A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he starts out, have condemned himself to second-rate thoughts, and to second-rate friends
~ Cyril Connolly
I don't exercise.
~ Jackee Harry
I tend to write and record things quite quickly. You can tamper with things for years, and it's artistic laziness sometimes.
~ Tom Odell
I'm not the kind of person who works 24 hours a day, mostly out of laziness; I don't know.
~ Michael Giacchino
I'm just a lazy boy. I'd rather sit in my recliner and act.
~ John Goodman
I read a lot of books; I am a lazy person when I don't work!
~ Catherine Tresa
I'm really lazy!
~ Cate Blanchett
I'm a lazy, lazy girl.
~ Christina Ricci
I'm quite lazy.
~ Ang Lee
I went through a lazy period.
~ Michael Keaton