Being Lazy Quotes

• Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Funny, Life, Motivational

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Jules Renard

  Running, Motivation, Business

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• There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Business, Positive Thinking

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Easyread Edition”, p.243, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• As I have gotten older, I've discovered the joys of being lazy.

  Julie Bowen

  Joy, Lazy

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• Okay, I'm lazy. But being lazy is a talent. Sometimes it takes an awful lot of work.

  M.C. Beaton

  Lazy, Laziness, Awful

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• Much of my work has come from being lazy.

  John Backus

  Lazy, Laziness

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• We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

  Milton Friedman

  Lazy, Society, Liberty

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• Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man.

  Jimmy Lyons

  Procrastination, Men, Years

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• It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Hilarious, Work

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.420, Simon and Schuster

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivation, Sleep, Two

  Benjamin Franklin (1839). “The Life and Miscellaneous Writings of Benjamin Franklin”, p.49

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• Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Work, Lazy

  Benjamin Franklin (1824). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral and Literary, with His Life, Written by Himself”, p.244

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• Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.

  Regina Brett

  Summer, Stars, Lying

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• I'm not going to sit at home and eat popcorn.

  Allen West

  Home, Popcorn

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• We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds.

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

  Lazy, Mind, Society

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

  Milan Kundera

  Inspirational, Funny, Ambition

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• Mathematics is being lazy. Mathematics is letting the principles do the work for you so that you do not have to do the work for yourself

  George Polya

  Hard Work, Science, Lazy

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• Gymnasts, lazy people, complainers and successful people have all practiced to be what they are good at. So if you keep practicing being lazy, you will be lazy. If you keep practicing complaining, you will constantly complain. If you practice compassion, generosity, patience, working hard and having a bigger vision, you will become better at it with time because you will create the causes to become better. You are practicing to become better.

  Tsem Tulku

  Buddhist, Inspiration, Successful

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• Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Drinking, Drunk, Lazy

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• I'm afraid of being lazy and complacent. I'm afraid of taking myself too seriously.

  Barbara Hershey

  Lazy, Laziness, Complacent

  "20 Questions: Barbara Hershey". Playboy Interview with David Rensin, May 1, 1987.

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• Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.

  Anne Frank

  Work, Mean, Giving

  Anne Frank (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.169, Hamilton Books

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

  Campbell Scott

  Work, Lazy, Laziness

  "PROCESS: Tom Gilroy and Campbell Scott on Acting, Directing and Details, Part II" by Tom Gilroy, www.indiewire.com. November 19, 2001.

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• I don't think about tennis 24/7. I enjoy time on the lake at my Florida home and just being lazy on the sofa.

  Andy Roddick

  Home, Thinking, Lakes

  The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2005.

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• 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

  Life, Success, Sorry

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• Being lazy does not mean that you do not create. In fact, lying around doing nothing is an important, nay crucial, part of the creative process. It is meaningless bustle that actually gets in the way of productivity. All we are really saying is, give peace a chance.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Lying, Mean, Giving

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2006.

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• In reality, nobody gets successful in America by being lazy.

  Bruno Tonioli

  Successful, Reality, America

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