Laziness Quotes - Page 4

• Rags will always make their appearance where they have a right to do it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Rags, Appearance

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.90

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• The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  People, Effort, Lazy

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• There're so many things I want to do, like become more media savvy. I am too lazy. But I'm making an effort.

  Ajay Devgan

  Media, Effort, Lazy

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• Because you can be lazy if you don't know the truth.

  Megan Martha White

  Truth, Lazy, Knows

  "What's eating Jack?". Interview with Andrew Perry, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2004.

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• You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off.

  Michael Gambon

  Lazy, Theatre, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Hard Work, Mean, Men

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  Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

  Sam Ewing

  Motivational, Success, Attitude

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

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Twitter post from Mar 30, 2017

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• People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.

  Bob Hope

  Love, Kissing, Lazy People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.

  Horace

  Sloth, Sirens, Avoided

  "Satires". II. 3. 14,

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• A bed or a chair will trick you if you stay still on them long at a time. They will draw out your strength and leave you weak as water.

  Julia Peterkin

  Strength, Time, Long

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• There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.

  Helena Rubinstein

  Funny, Beauty, Beautiful

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• If an intelligent, educated, and healthy man begins to complain of his lot and go down-hill, there is nothing for him to do but to go on down until he reaches the bottom--there is no hope for him. Where could my salvation come from? How can I save myself? I cannot drink, because it makes my head ache. I never could write bad poetry. I cannot pray for strength and see anything lofty in the languor of my soul. Laziness is laziness and weakness weakness. I can find no other names for them. I am lost, I am lost; there is no doubt of that.

  Anton Chekhov

  Writing, Intelligent, Men

  Anton Chekhov (2015). “The Collected Works of Anton Chekhov: Novellas, Short Stories, Plays, Letters & Diary: Three Sisters, Seagull , The Shooting Party, Uncle Vanya, Cherry Orchard, Chameleon, Tripping Tongue, On The Road, Vanka, Ward No. Six, Swedish Match, Nightmare, Bear, Reluctant Hero, Joy…”, p.131, e-artnow

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• What are these barriers that keep people from reaching anywhere near their real potential? The answer to that can be found in another question and that's this: Which is the most universal human characteristic: fear, or laziness?

  Louis Mackey

  Real, People, Waking

  "Waking Life". www.imdb.com. January 23, 2001.

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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 up in the pod, and art without practice is nothing.

  Pietro Aretino

  Art, Exercise, Practice

  Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

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• Idleness leads to relaxation, sooner or later bringing about ideological and material corruption, accompanied by lack of discipline, anarchy chaos and defeat.

  Samora Machel

  Discipline, Relaxation, Anarchy

  Samora Machel (1975). “The Tasks Ahead: Selected Speeches of Samora Moises Machel”

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• Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.

  Tryon Edwards

  Character, Mind, Dry

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.651, Ravenio Books

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• Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Habit, Familiar

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• I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.442, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Art, Lying, Long

  Tremendous Trifles (1909) "On Lying in Bed"

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• To avoid doing anything, wait for the right circumstances.

  Mason Cooley

  Waiting, Circumstances

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• The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.

  Idries Shah

  Age, Rehearsal, Incapacity

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.147, Octagon Press Ltd

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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 laziness and ignorance every step of the way."

  James Alexander Thom

  Ignorance, Fighting, Self

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• Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Happiness, Stress

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• If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.

  Samuel Johnson

  Advice, Solitude, Sloth

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (letter to Boswell, 27 Oct. 1779)

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