Laziness Quotes

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  I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

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• Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

  Anne Frank

  Motivational, Positive, Work

  Anne Frank (1959). “Works”

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• There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Lazy, Fatigue

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• Laziness is the mother of all evils.

  Sophocles

  Mother, Work, Evil

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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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• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Funny, Life, Motivational

  "An Enemy Called Average". Book by John L. Mason, 1990.

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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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• Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains

  Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet

  Iron, People, Cobwebs

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• Work is not a shame. Laziness is a shame.

  Hesiod

  Work, Shame

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• It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Done, May, Action

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.86, Rowman & Littlefield

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• There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

  Franz Kafka

  Patience, Art, Spring

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• The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

  Khalil Gibran

  Courage, House, Lust

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.54, Lulu.com

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Work, Lazy, Leisure

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• Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Inspirational, Positive, Time

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.130

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• Those who do the least themselves are always the severest critics upon the noble achievements of others.

  Elias Lyman Magoon

  Achievement, Noble, Critics

  Elias Lyman Magoon (1849). “Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom”, p.164

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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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• Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  "Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays Vol. 1 1852-1890".

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

  Kingsley Amis

  Journalism, Incompetence, Characteristics

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

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• Doing nothing is very hard to do... you never know when you're finished.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Funny, Humor, Epic

  "Everything I Know About Parenting I Learned From Leslie Nielsen" by Kevin Makice, www.wired.com. December 2, 2010.

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• A loafer always has the correct time.

  Kin Hubbard

  Time, Lazy People, Literature

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• 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

  Giving, Perfection, Unattainable

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.185

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• It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sloth, Ease, Tranquility

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler”, p.11

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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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• 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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• Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Sloth, Easy, Difficult

  Benjamin Franklin (2011). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Including Poor Richard's Almanac, and Familiar Letters”, p.224, Cosimo, Inc.

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