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• 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

  Hands, Lazy, Talent

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• I am not the only one that condemns the idle; for once when I was going to give our minister a pretty long list of the sins of one of our people that he was asking after, I began with, "He's dreadfully lazy." "That's enough," said the old gentleman; " all sorts of sins are in that one.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Long, People, Giving

  Charles Spurgeon (2012). “John Ploughman's Talks”, p.5, Whitaker House

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• I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

  Agatha Christie

  Mother, Memorable, Thinking

  Agatha Christie (1990). “An autobiography”

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• Run away from laziness; work hard. Touch intuition and listen to the heart, not marketing directors. Dream.

  Alber Elbaz

  Running, Dream, Hard Work

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• Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

  Jules Renard

  Success, Congratulations, Failure

  Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.123, Tin House Books

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

  Ann Rule

  Lazy People, Chance, People

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• Laziness is the one common deficiency in mankind that blocks the establishment of a perfect world in which everyone leads a happy life.

  William Feather

  Block, Happy Life, Perfect

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• Lack of self-confidence is, more often than not, simple laziness. We feel confused and uncertain because we do not know. But instead of making the effort to investigate, we procrastinate and worry. We tell ourselves we can't instead of learning how we can. If we used the mental energy we expend in worry and fear to get out and find out about what we do not know, we would see our self-confidence grow. Lack of self-confidence is not overcome by faith, but by action. It is a lack, not of certainty, but of effort. Too often we are certain that we can't before we give ourselves a fair chance.

  Laurence Boldt

  Confused, Self Confidence, Simple

  Laurence G. Boldt (1999). “Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design”, p.941, Penguin

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• There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps.

  Herbert V. Prochnow

  Family, Being Thankful, Helping

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• Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Results, Ifs

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• Don't tolerate lazy people. They are losers.

  Bear Bryant

  Lazy People, Loser, Tolerate

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

  Hesiod

  Work, Shame

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• Work is the law of the modern world, which has no place for lazy people.

  Mihai Eminescu

  Law, Lazy People, World

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• It is easier to mend neglect than to quicken love.

  St. Jerome

  Neglect, Easier

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.26, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.

  Kin Hubbard

  Patience, Work, Lazy

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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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• 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, Nursing, Sacrifice

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• Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Lazy People, Anxious, People

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• The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.

  W. C. Fields

  Humor, Men, Lazy

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

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• 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

  Fall, Reading, Creativity

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.175, Princeton University Press

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• Human nature is above all things lazy.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Lazy, Literature, Human Nature

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.561, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• The idle always have a mind to do something.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Lazy, Mind, Idle

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• 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

  Eye, Hands, Bored

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• Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.

  Horace

  Yield, Sloth, Witch

  Horace (1936). “Complete Works”

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