Top 100 Quotes About Laziness
#1. Through laziness and cowardice a large part of mankind, even after nature has freed them from alien guidance, gladly remain immature. It is because of laziness and cowardice that it is so easy for others to usurp the role of guardians. It is so comfortable to be a minor!
Immanuel Kant
#2. I've always enjoyed cleaning. Even though they tried to teach us laziness in school.
Peter Hoeg
#3. 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 mind.
Karl Popper
#4. I was trained to turn loneliness into laziness.
Bill Callahan
#5. Laziness bears the fruit of hunger and crimes, and those who choose the right path are those willing to pay the price
Michael Bassey Johnson
#6. We are not the slaves of laziness,
we are the slaves of WiFi.
Zelo
#7. Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.
Kingsley Amis
#8. Woe to the lazy man! Laziness is an evil disease which you must not let seize you in childhood, for when you grow up it cannot be cured. Chapter 25
Carlo Collodi
#9. The taste of your life depends on the spices you used to brew it. Add laziness to it and it becomes bitter as the bile; put a cube of good attitudes into it and you will lick your lips more and more due to its sweet taste.
Israelmore Ayivor
#10. One can be deceived by three types of laziness: of indolence, which is the wish to procrastinate; the laziness of inferiority, which is doubting your capabilities; and the laziness that is attachment to negative actions, or putting great effort into non-virtue.
Dalai Lama
#11. The reason laziness is rarely pushed as a lifestyle option is down to one simple reason: money. There are fortunes to be made out of active lifestyles. Gyms charge fees. But no one is going to make money out of sleep. It is free.
Tom Hodgkinson
#12. the healthy self, however, must always be vigilant against the laziness of the sick self that still lurks within us.
M. Scott Peck
#13. Well, I'm a Lovelace. My family quit Shadowhunting due to laziness in the 1700s.
Cassandra Clare
#14. There's a strong victim mentality in my generation. I think it's spiritual laziness. They will agree that God is sovereign over all, but then they will say, "Well, I wish he would sovereignly take away my lust issue." There's just not a lot of fortitude, not a lot of fight in them.
Matt Chandler
#15. There is no such thing as senility when it comes to envy, greed laziness, wrath and pride. It's her destructive character from childhood." ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You
Angelica Hopes
#16. The effort of explaining, even of expressing himself, had become, with the years, more and more terrifying to him. Whether from laziness or from inability to find the right words, he had developed almost a passion for silence.
Francois Mauriac
#17. Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#18. A holiday is for kindness, compassion, love, and holiness; it is not for laziness or craziness.
Debasish Mridha
#19. No one knows just how the idea of a soul or the supernatural started ... It probably had its origin in the general laziness of mankind.
John B. Watson
#20. Anxiety, the next gumption trap, is sort of the opposite of ego. You're so sure you'll do everything wrong you're afraid to do anything at all. Often this, rather than "laziness" is the real reason you find it hard to get started
Robert M. Pirsig
#21. Some people maybe try to justify their laziness. You take out what you put in and the more I go to church and the more I turn myself over to the process of believing in Jesus, and to listening to his word and have him guide my hand I feel the pressure's off me.
Sylvester Stallone
#23. It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.
Samuel Johnson
#24. All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.
Mark Kennedy
#25. There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness." Franz Kafka
Jason Harvey
#26. The bias of the mainstream media is toward sensationalism, conflict, and laziness.
Jon Stewart
#27. Most people think of Las Vegas, and they think of extravagance. But it's really a mix between fantasy and laziness.
Gia Coppola
#28. The cause of laziness is physiological; it is an infirmity of the constitution, and its victim is as much to be pitied as a sufferer from any other constitutional infirmity. It is even worse than many other diseases; from them the patient may recover, while this is incurable.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#29. I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.
Harold Ramis
#30. It would be better to try to awake the reader's critical instincts than to appeal to his laziness.
Albert Camus
#31. The day was made for laziness, and lying on one's back in green places, and staring at the sky till its brightness forced one to shut one's eyes and go to sleep ...
Charles Dickens
#32. A readiness to believe ill of others, before we have duly examined it, is the effect of laziness and pride. We are eager to find aculprit, and loath to give ourselves the trouble of examining the crime.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#33. I'd love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don't consider laziness a sin at all.
Kajol
#34. There is an air of plausibility which accompanies vulgar reasonings and notions, taken from the beaten circle of ordinary experience, that is admirably suited to the narrow capacities of some, and to the laziness of others.
Edmund Burke
#35. It is sheer laziness not compressing thought into a reasonable space.
Winston Churchill
#36. ARE YOU A MOVIE STAR?
Prerequisite for Laziness: Creativity, award winning actor/actress, convincing speech
Kamil Ali
#37. The city is dirty due to the laziness of the citizens in the country.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#38. 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 technology.
Nick Offerman
#39. The biggest part of painting perhaps is faith, and waiting receptively, content to go any way, not planning or forcing. The fear, though, is laziness. It is so easy to drift and finally be tossed up on the beach, derelict.
Emily Carr
#40. Deliver us from evil - from moral duplicity and weakness, from laziness and spiritual complacency, from those lies we tell ourselves from our fear of facing the truth.
Rich Mullins
#41. Brethren, the crying sin of the church is her laziness after God.
Samuel Chadwick
#42. A slouching posture tends to suggest a certain laziness of character as well as a lack of interest in others. Whereas an upright position can confirm a sense of self-possession and a quality of engagement.
Amor Towles
#43. Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.
Timothy Ferriss
#45. As for discipline - it's important, but sort of overrated. The more important virtue for a writer, I believe, is self-forgiveness. Because your writing will always disappoint you. Your laziness will always disappoint you.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#46. My laziness is really profound. I'm really interested in where it comes from - it almost feels chemical. And we've all got ADD now, short attention span and all that.
Hugh Grant
#47. Everybody has a capacity for a happy life. All these talks about how difficult times we live in, that's just a clever way to justify fear and laziness.
Lev Landau
#48. The story in that book of yours comes down to a sudden slipup caused by two great vices: women and laziness.
Kamel Daoud
#49. There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort.
John Steinbeck
#50. To tear ourselves away from the everyday, from habit, from mental laziness which hides from us the strangeness of reality, we must receive something like a real bludgeon blow.
Eugene Ionesco
#51. My weak spot is laziness. I have a lot of weak spots - cookies, croissants; my wife is always lecturing me about this, I tend to put it all down as habit or it's just acting.
Anthony Hopkins
#52. I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
Vikram Seth
#53. Laziness is the mother of all evils.
Sophocles
#54. If you are planning to work very hard, start working by screwing around! Lounge about at home; fool around in the streets or in the fields! Laziness will fill you with energy!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#55. Laziness wasn't as reliable as greed, but it still made a fine lever.
Leigh Bardugo
#56. I often make films about subjects I don't really know much about. Maybe it's laziness, but I don't go in there having done a tonne of research; the research happens while I'm making the film.
Asif Kapadia
#57. Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear.
Julia Cameron
#58. Laziness has many disguises. Soon "winter doldrums" will become "spring fever."
Bernard Williams
#59. 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 it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. - Chesterfield.
Orison Swett Marden
#60. Excellence is being thwarted not only by laziness but by reckless attachment to causes, programs, and - in some cases, leaders.
Michael Horton
#61. I have little tolerance for incompetence, sloppy thinking, and laziness.
Michael E. DeBakey
#63. If you refuse to study anatomy, the arts of drawing and perspective, the mathematics of aesthetics, and the science of color, let me tell you that this is more a sign of laziness than of genius.
Salvador Dali
#65. As I have defined it, love is the antithesis of laziness. Ordinary laziness is a passive failure to love. Some ordinarily lazy people may not lift a finger to extend themselves unless they are compelled to do so. Their being is a manifestation of nonlove; still, they are not evil.
M. Scott Peck
#66. I'm a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black, ... an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.
Octavia E. Butler
#67. The entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We were able to pass from one room to the next only by exercising our memories and imaginations, but most of us, in our laziness, rarely exercised these capacities, and forever remained in the same room.
Orhan Pamuk
#68. There are times when I just can't bring myself to sit down and write and I'm never sure whether it's pure laziness or lack of courage - there's always the thought in the back of my mind that my writing won't be good enough.
Kate Cary
#69. Do not feel sorry for the bad luck of people, because behind everyone's misery is their own stupidity and laziness.
M.F. Moonzajer
#70. Extension of ourselves or moving out against the inertia of laziness we call work. Moving out in the face of fear we call courage.
M. Scott Peck
#71. Laziness, I am afraid, was Charles's distinguishing trait.
John Fowles
#72. Comedians rarely have writers, and if you do it's usually a sign of laziness.
Jim Gaffigan
#73. Larry Wall's classic Programming Perl described the three programmer's virtues: hubris, laziness, and impatience.
C.J.S. Hayward
#74. He is at once a great lazybones, pitifully ambitious, and famous for unhappiness; for his entire life he has had practically nothing but half-baked ideas. The sun of laziness, which ceaselessly glows within him, vaporizes him and gnaws away that half-genius that heaven bestowed upon him.
Charles Baudelaire
#75. The biggest trap, the biggest dungeon in life isn't laziness or bad luck, it's comfort.
Robert Kiyosaki
#76. Laziness is contagious just like hard work is. I didn't give myself an opportunity to be lazy and I didn't surround myself with people who are lazy.
Michael Chandler
#77. Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
Ambrose Bierce
#78. His idleness was his refuge, and in this he was like many others in [occupied] France in that period; laziness became political.
Iain Pears
#79. I underestimated your laziness."
"It's pronounced intelligence, Kirk.
Abria Mattina
#80. Laziness begat wearisomeness, and this put men in quest of diversions, play and company, on which however it is a constant attendant; he who works hard, has enough to do with himself otherwise.
Jean De La Bruyere
#81. I began writing late; my first articles and stories were published after I was thirty, and I was motivated by money. Money is not a bad motivation. The need to eat keeps us from laziness, and the fact that someone is willing to pay to read what we write assures us that we have indeed written.
M.V. Carey
#83. Chernobyl, while an accident in the sense that no one intentionally set it off, was also the deliberate product of a culture of cronyism, laziness, and a deep-seated indifference toward the general population.
Svetlana Alexievich
#84. Evil people hate the light because it reveals themselves to themselves. They hate goodness because it reveals their badness; they hate love because it reveals their laziness. They will destroy the light, the goodness, the love in order to avoid the pain of such self-awareness.
M. Scott Peck
#85. Laziness is when your sleep overcomes your passion, not under the influence of drugs but under the control of excuses and procrastination!
Israelmore Ayivor
#86. It was not laziness if he was a rich man. Only the poor were lazy. Just as only the poor were ignorant. A rich man who didn't know anything was spoiled or independent.
John Steinbeck
#88. Any church that over emphasises miracles is encouraging laziness.
Sunday Adelaja
#89. Nothing in the world is better suited to laziness than orthodoxy. If you gag your mouth, stop up your ears and put a blinder over your eyes, you can sleep peacefully.
Jacob Burckhardt
#90. 12 Things To Ditch For A Great Day
Blame
Guilt
Worry
Regret
Resentment
Entitlement
Self-pity
Laziness
Negative attitude
Fear of embarrassment
Urge to one-up others
Your comfort zone
Charles F. Glassman
#91. Some men who live hard and in good health can't believe sickness or weakness is anything but laziness, a sham.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#92. 24 The diligent hand will rule, but laziness will lead to forced labor.
Anonymous
#93. The mind that spontaneously thinks each and every day 'I may die today' is the realization of death. It is this realization that directly eliminates our laziness of attachment and opens the door to the spiritual path.
Kelsang Gyatso
#94. God is missed through laziness, indifference and unwillingness.
Jesse Duplantis
#95. A BURNING DESIRE TO BE, AND TO DO is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition.
Napoleon Hill
#96. Unfortunately the next day was not the vast, extraneous expanse of time which I had feverishly looked forward. When it drew to a close my laziness and my painful struggle to overcome internal obstacles had simply lasted twenty-four hours longer.
Marcel Proust
#97. Typographical laziness was slowly destroying our culture, according to Lexa and her pals. Inexactitude was death.
Scott Westerfeld
#98. My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.
Anthony Hopkins
#99. You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it!
Leo Tolstoy
#100. From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.
Friedrich Nietzsche
