Laziness Quotes

444 quotes by 357 authors

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. — Marcus Aurelius
We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable. — Henry Adams
Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable. — Natalie Clifford Barney
Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree. — Ambrose Bierce
The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work.… — Jerome Bruner
If you want to be certain, you should never get married. You should never change jobs. In fact, you might as well just stay home.… — Mark Burnett
Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish. — Miguel de Cervantes
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow… — Lord Chesterfield
Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to… — Lord Chesterfield
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself… — Agatha Christie
Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something. — Luc de Clapiers
Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence. — Kingsley Amis
Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. — Tim Ferriss
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… — William Faulkner
The perfection of joyful determination is defined as taking delight or feeling joy in doing something positive or virtuous. If you are very joyful about… — Geshe Gyeltsen
The sleeping fox catches no poultry. — Benjamin Franklin
One musts avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness. — Horace
Negativity is basically laziness. It takes a lot of hard work to remain positive, but positivity always pays off. — RuPaul

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