Laziness Quotes

Most popular laziness quotes

Laziness has many disguises. Soon "winter doldrums" will become "spring fever." - Bernard Williams quote.
Laziness has many disguises. Soon "winter doldrums" will become "spring fever."
He who is carried on another's back does not appreciate how far off the town is.
— African proverb

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Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. - Anne Frank quote.
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

hard work

The safest road to hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. - C. S. Lewis quote.
The safest road to hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
Laziness is nothing more than resting before you get tired. - Jules Renard quote.
Laziness is nothing more than resting before you get tired.
A lot of what passes for depression these days is nothing more than a body saying that it needs work.

depression

It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all. - James Thurber quote.
It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all.

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The day will happen whether or not you get up. - John Ciardi quote.
The day will happen whether or not you get up.
I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things. - Lech Wałęsa quote.
I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.
I can do only one thing at a time, but I can avoid doing many things simultaneously. - Ashleigh Brilliant quote.
I can do only one thing at a time, but I can avoid doing many things simultaneously.

funny

What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be!
A life of ease is a difficult pursuit. - William Cowper quote.
A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity. - Robert Louis Stevenson quote.
To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

identity

There is a close correlation between getting up in the morning and getting up in the world.

success action

If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all. - Joey Adams quote.
If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all.

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What looks like laziness is often exhaustion.
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. - Jules Renard quote.
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

failure success & failure success

My ambition is handicapped by my laziness. - Charles Bukowski quote.
My ambition is handicapped by my laziness.

ambition

Laziness: the habit of resting before fatigue sets in. - Jules Renard quote.
Laziness: the habit of resting before fatigue sets in.

fatigue

Up sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough. - Benjamin Franklin quote.
Up sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him. - Benjamin Franklin quote.
Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

poverty

Our minds are lazier than our bodies. - François de La Rochefoucauld quote.
Our minds are lazier than our bodies.
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. - Gautama Buddha quote.
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

diligence

It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

perseverance

Friends and neighbours complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly. - Benjamin Franklin quote.
Friends and neighbours complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly.

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