Laziness Quotes - Page 8

• We want gain without pain; we want the resurrection without going through the grave; we want life without experiencing death; we want a crown without going by way of the Cross. But in God's economy, the way up is down.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Pain, Crowns, Want

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2008). “Brokenness: The Heart God Revives”, p.47, Moody Publishers

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• Many say they can't get God's guidance, when they really mean they wish He would show them an easier way.

  Winkie Pratney

  Mean, Wish, Way

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• It is doing some service to humanity, to amuse innocently. They know but little of society who think we can bear to be always employed, either in duties or meditation, without relaxation.

  Hannah More

  Thinking, Meditation, Humanity

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• People who are lazy, careless, doubtful-minded or arrogant need not expect God to reveal His secret or covenant to them.

  Watchman Nee

  People, Secret, Lazy

  Watchman Nee (1982). “The Better Covenant”, p.40, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• Better never begin than never make an end.

  George Herbert

  Ends, Speakers

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• So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Evil, Overcoming, Spirit

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• If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.

  Cyril Connolly

  Wisdom, Thinking, Lazy

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• He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Business, Night, Awe Inspiring

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.286, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Much of my work has come from being lazy.

  John Backus

  Lazy, Being Lazy

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• Laziness is the road to progress, but only when it is allied to intelligent thought and high ambition.

  Richard Koch

  Ambition, Intelligent, Progress

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• If you make a habit of doing nothing, you have already earned your reward.

  Wes Fesler

  Rewards, Doing Nothing, Habit

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• Add a task to a busy person's plate, and it will get done in short order. Add a task to the plate of someone with nothing to do, and it will never get done.

  Wes Fesler

  Order, Tasks, Add

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• Those that dare lose a day, ate dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, are desperate.

  Joseph Hall

  Desperate, Dare, Loses

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• There is nothing more dangerous than a lazy parent.

  Wes Fesler

  Parenting, Lazy, Danger

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• Often the children of God cannot rise up to answer the Lord's call to service simply because, though their physical condition is good, their feelings are low, cold, and reluctant. Or even when their emotions are quite high, passionate, and willing, they find themselves unable to serve the Lord because now the body reacts lazily. The disciples found themselves in precisely that situation in the Garden of Gethsemane: "the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak"

  Watchman Nee

  Children, Garden, Feelings

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.356, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.

  Jim Elliot

  Men, Firsts, He Man

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• Modern Christians, especially those in the Western world, have generally been found wanting in the area of holiness of body. Gluttony and laziness, for example, were regarded by earlier Christians as sin. Today we may look on these as weaknesses of the will but certainly not sin. We even joke about our overeating and other indulgences instead of crying out to God in confession and repentance.

  Jerry Bridges

  Christian, World, Body

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• The welfare system in this country has literally crippled millions. It has gotten people bound and gagged so that they cannot get off it. It is such a fouled-up system.

  Shelton Smith

  Country, People, Welfare

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• It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation,
  To puff and look important and to say:-
  'Though we know we should defeat you,
  we have not the time to meet you,
  We will therefore pay you cash to go away.'

  Rudyard Kipling

  Funny, Temptation, Sloth

  School History "Dane-Geld (A.D. 980 - 1016)" (1911).

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• Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

  Tim Ferriss

  Thinking, Lazy, Important

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• I suppose what I like about Zen is that the teachers are constantly questioning your insight and challenging it, looking for sloppiness or laziness in it, and ways you can go past that.

  David O. Russell

  Teacher, Past, Challenges

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• Of all our faults, the one we avow most easily is idleness; we persuade ourselves that it is allied to all the peaceable virtues,and as for the others, that it does not destroy them utterly, but only suspends the exercise of their functions.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Exercise, Faults, Doe

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• Idleness and constancy fix the mind to what it finds easy and agreeable. This habit always confines and cramps up our knowledge; and no one has ever taken the trouble to stretch and carry his understanding as far as it could go.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Taken, Knowledge, Understanding

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• I think comedy is the most difficult thing in the world, I really do.

  Martha Graham

  Thinking, World, Comedy

  "Martha Graham Reflects on Her Art and a Life in Dance". archive.nytimes.com. March 31, 1985.

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• When I was very young, I was disgracefully intolerant but when I passed the thirty mark I prided myself on having learned the beautiful lesson that all things were good, and equally good. That, however, was really laziness. Now, thank goodness, I've sorted out what matters and what doesn't. And I'm beginning to be intolerant again.

  Gladys Bronwyn Stern

  Beautiful, What Matters, Lessons

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