Laziness Quotes

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
Benjamin Franklin

Life, Two, Enough

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
Anne Frank

Work, May, Attractive

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 what you can do today.
Lord Chesterfield

Time, Today, True

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.
Lord Chesterfield

Everything, Give, Perfection

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
Jules Renard

Tired, Nothing, Before

Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
Ambrose Bierce

Person, Degree, Manner

Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
Robert Half

Failure, Person, Secret

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Keep, Often, While

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
Jules Renard

Success, Failure, Others

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

Whatever, Using, Frightened

There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.
Doug Coupland

Time, Good, Bad

The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Larry Wall

Three, Chief, Programmer

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

Freedom, Criticism, Either

I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.
Harold Ramis

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 trouble.
Agatha Christie

Mother, Opinion, Trouble

Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in the practice. It does take work and it ain't easy - but man, the rewards!
Susan Powter

Work, Hard, Mean

Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.
James Cash Penney

Last, Luck, Refuge

Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly.
Elizabeth Hurley

Mind, Nothing, Others

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
Miguel de Cervantes

Good, Wish, Arrived

Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.
Grenville Kleiser

Mind, After, Effort

For example, I was discussing the use of email and how impersonal it can be, how people will now email someone across the room rather than go and talk to them. But I don't think this is laziness, I think it is a conscious decision people are making to save time.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Time, Someone, Decision

I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy.
Bernard Williams

Makes, Word, Seem

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.
Walter Annenberg

Boredom, Ourselves, Hold

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.
Kingsley Amis

Become, Journalism, Chief

In reality, everyone is good in bed. Close eyes. Shutdown brain. Pause as necessary. Restart brain. Open eyes. What's there to not be good at? Bed is the one place where laziness is rewarded.
John Dobbin

Good, Reality, Brain

It's a disease of critics that once they've labeled someone, it's very hard to change their perspective. It's laziness.
Michael Haneke

Change, Someone, Hard

I just would never go audition, and yet I was in very visible places where people would come looking for actors. I say I'm lazy, though I'm sure if I were in therapy for a lot of years, it would turn out to be a lot more than laziness. After awhile, it was, like, too embarrassing for me not to go on auditions. I had to be humiliated into it.
Ellen Barkin

Lazy, After, Looking

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

Says, Computer, Biggest

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.
Jerome Bruner

Work, Courageous, Valuable

There seems to be such a laziness in - and I hate to use this phrase - the modern world. Everything is pumped out so quickly so that you can read it while passing by, like billboards or those flashcards before movie shows.
Chris Ware

Hate, Everything, Before

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