Lazy Quotes

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein

Thinking, Brain, Habits

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
Pope Paul VI

Life, Work, Today

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein

Age, Mind, Thinking

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
Benjamin Franklin

Time, Person, Useful

Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.
Doug Coupland

Person, Blame, Sense

As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.
Dennis Prager

Happy, Ungrateful, Become

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
Tony Robbins

Simply, Goals, Inspire

Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.
Ann Rule

Work, Down, Themselves

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
Marcus Aurelius

Ignorant, Perhaps, Truly

It's hard to do it because you gotta look people in the eye and tell 'em they're irresponsible and lazy. And who's gonna wanna do that? Because that's what poverty is, ladies and gentlemen. In this country, you can succeed if you get educated and work hard. Period. Period.
Bill O'Reilly

Work, Hard, Country

People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.
Bob Hope

Throw, Kisses, Hopelessly

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
Florence Nightingale

Selfish, Rather, Themselves

Fanatic is often the name given to people of action by people who are lazy.
Bryant H. McGill

Often, Action, Name

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
Barbra Streisand

Beautiful, Selfish, Simple

Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.
Campbell Scott

Great, Hard, Working

If I don't feel confident about my body, I'm not going to sit at home and feel sorry for myself and not do something about it. It's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.
Kim Kardashian

Work, Home, Fitness

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.
Cyril Connolly

Person, Friends, Thoughts

There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument.
Christopher Hitchens

Stupid, Kinds, Argument

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Milan Kundera

Enough, Poor, Sense

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, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
W. H. Auden

Bored, Unexpected, Hand

I have sporadic OCD cleaning moments around the house. But then I get lazy and I'm cured. It's a very inconsistent personality trait.
Chris Hemsworth

Around, House, Moments

I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven.
Barbra Streisand

Beautiful, Selfish, Simple

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.
Jesse Jackson

Depression, Unemployed, Whites

I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right?
Catherine O'Hara

Made, Special, Write

I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.
Lech Walesa

Walking, Bicycle, Carrying

Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well, but that it has limits.
Paul Ryan

Government, Trying, False

Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote.
William Hazlitt

Learned, Talk, Often

I feel lazy when I'm not working. I learned all my business sense from my dad. He always believed in me, and I think the last thing he said to me before he passed away was, 'I know you're gonna be OK. I'm not worried about you'.
Kim Kardashian

Business, Dad, Before

I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive.
Charles Evers

I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.
Bjork

Time, Important, Sometimes

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