Laziness Quotes
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Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard.
William Shakespeare -
Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue.
James Hilton
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I suppose what I like about Zen is that the teachers are constantly questioning your insight and challenging it, looking for sloppiness or laziness in it, and ways you can go past that.
David O. Russell -
Least doers are the greatest boasters.
William Gurnall -
It is not the dream of what you're feeling laziness, if not, the sleep of exhaustion.
Edmondo De Amicis -
Comedians rarely have writers, and if you do it's usually a sign of laziness.
Jim Gaffigan -
Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Friend, you cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. And what one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government can't give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody. And when half of the people get the idea they don't have to work because the other half's going to take care of them, and when the other half get the idea it does no good to work because somebody's going to get what I work for. That, dear friend, is about the end of any nation.
Adrian Rogers
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The longer a soul hath neglected duty, the more ado there is to get it taken up.
William Gurnall -
Constancy, far from being a virtue, seems often to be the besetting sin of the human race, daughter of laziness and self-sufficiency, sister of sleep, the cause of most wars and practically all persecutions.
Freya Stark -
Laziness is the mother of all evils.
Sophocles -
The idea of African brotherhood is often just a cover-up for laziness. We must see what is achievable in our circumstances and evaluate all decisions. In terms of regional economic integration, sentimentality is not enough. We really have to be frank and honest.
Benjamin Mkapa -
Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
Miguel de Cervantes -
Typographical laziness was slowly destroying our culture, according to Lexa and her pals. Inexactitude was death.
Scott Westerfeld
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Lazy geniuses! There are no such men. Laziness and genius never go hand in hand. Each excludes the other. Laziness is the best proof of the absence of genius.
Epifanio de los Santos -
Beware of those who say: "I know this too well to be able to express it." For if they cannot do so, this is because they don't know it or because out of laziness they stopped at the outer crust.
Albert Camus -
I guess laziness is a universal feeling that everyone in this world feels sometimes.
Park Kyung Block B -
Laziness is the one common deficiency in mankind that blocks the establishment of a perfect world in which everyone leads a happy life.
William Feather -
The Procrastinator has the opposite problem. He can’t selectively focus his attention and might endure frequent accusations about his laziness. In truth, he’s so distracted by stimuli that he can’t figure out where or how to get started. Sounds, smells, sights and the random wanderings of his thoughts continually vie for his attention.
Kate Kelly -
Everyone thinks I must have been an ace in school. But I didn't work hard, I was lazy. I liked to be lazy. I thought laziness stimulated your imagination.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
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Change is hard because people wear themselves out. And that’s the second surprise about change: What looks like laziness is often exhaustion.
Chip Heath -
They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men and bondage have taught them: improvidence and intemperance and evasion-not laziness: evasion: of what white men had set them to, not for their aggrandizement or even comfort but his own.
William Faulkner -
Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person that is temperate, industrious, just and valiant, and who uses all his virtues for the public good, it shows a great and lofty mind.
Plutarch -
Excellence is being thwarted not only by laziness but by reckless attachment to causes, programs, and - in some cases, leaders.
Michael Horton