Hard work may pay off in the long run, but the benefits of…

If we don't invest now in so-called priority neighbourhoods with music classes, athletic facilities, and skills training and mentoring, we will all pay more…

— Dan Hill

I've always been playing because I knew this was eventually going to pay off in the long run for me.

— Marcus Smart

I did learn Chinese kung-fu in a school for a short time, but I couldn't afford to pay for long-term learning.

— Stephen Chow

Republicans have been trying to get people to work for no pay for a long time.

— George Carlin

...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

If it is true to say of the lazy that they kill time, then it is greatly to be feared that an era which…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A writer with her work needs to be like a dog with a bone all the time. She needs to know where she's hidden…

— Dani Shapiro

Laziness is the definition of being very active & doing nothing.

— Punkinhead Abhishek

Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort…

— Ajahn Chah

LAZiNESS and iNACTiViTY kiLLs as many peopLe as smoking.

— Jhonna Sanda

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

— Harry Enfield

I think that laziness in many ways is the human condition, and that's what has led us to this place where, as we've developed…

— Nick Offerman

Procrastination isn't patience. It's a sign of laziness.

— Terry Mark

“Some people are ants by nature; they have to work, even when it’s useless. Few people have a talent for constructive laziness.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

— Denzel Washington