Best Laziness Quotes
444 Laziness quotes by 342 unique authors
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Talkers are no good doers.
— William Shakespeare
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I'm afraid of being lazy and complacent. I'm afraid of taking myself too seriously.
— Barbara Hershey
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Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
— Lord Chesterfield
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I like the word "indolence." It makes my laziness seem classy.
— Bernard Williams
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The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.
— Germaine Greer
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Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
— Larry Wall
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The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable.
— Henry David Thoreau
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The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after.
— John Lyly
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Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard.
— William Shakespeare
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Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.
— Samuel Johnson
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The scent of Sloth tempts a smug man.
— James Boswell
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Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a seed shut…
— Pietro Aretino
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It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.
— Samuel Johnson
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No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time is worth nothing.
— Washington Irving
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Man like every other animal is by nature indolent. If nothing spurs him on, then he will hardly think, and will behave from habit like…
— Albert Einstein
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Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.
— Horace
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No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.
— Samuel Johnson
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The biggest challenge you have is to challenge your own self doubt and your laziness. It is your self doubt and your laziness that defines…
— Robert Kiyosaki
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Generations of women have sacrificed their lives to become their mothers. But we do not have that luxury any more. The world has changed too…
— Erica Jong
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Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride, or laziness of…
— Karl Popper
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Self-discipline is a form of freedom. Freedom from laziness and lethargy, freedom from the expectations and demands of others, freedom from weakness and fear-and doubt.…
— Harvey Dorfman
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Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or…
— Samuel Johnson
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I am a lazy man. Laziness keeps me from believing that enlightenment demands effort, discipline, strict diet, non-smoking, and other evidences of virtue. There is…
— Thaddeus Golas
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Probably the most honest "self-made person" ever was the one we heard say: "I got to the top the hard way - fighting my own…
— James Alexander Thom
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