These laziness quotes will inspire you. Laziness is a disinclination to activity or exertion despite having the ability to act or to exert oneself. It is often used as a pejorative; terms for a person seen to be lazy include “couch potato”, “slacker”, and “bludger”.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging laziness quotes, laziness sayings, and laziness proverbs.
Best Laziness Quotes
- “I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.” ~ Bill Gates
- “Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.” ~ Anne Frank
- “There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.” ~ Charles Spurgeon
- “Laziness is the mother of all evils.” ~ Sophocles
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“Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” ~ Thomas A. Edison
- “Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.” ~ Jules Renard
- “Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains” ~ Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet
- “Work is not a shame. Laziness is a shame.” ~ Hesiod
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“It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
- “There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.” ~ Franz Kafka
- “The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.” ~ Khalil Gibran
- “Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it.” ~ Lord Chesterfield
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“Those who do the least themselves are always the severest critics upon the noble achievements of others.” ~ Elias Lyman Magoon
- “A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well.” ~ Mark Twain
- “Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.” ~ Kingsley Amis
- “Doing nothing is very hard to do… you never know when you’re finished.” ~ Leslie Nielsen
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“A loafer always has the correct time.” ~ Kin Hubbard
- “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
- “It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.” ~ Samuel Johnson
- “Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man.” ~ Jimmy Lyons
- “There will be sleeping enough in the grave.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
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“Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.” ~ Lord Chesterfield , Laziness quotes & procrastination
- “Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “The only menace is inertia.” ~ Saint-John Perse
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“To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.” ~ Oscar Wilde
- “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
- “The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor but without folly.” ~ Jim Rohn
- “All of the biggest technological inventions created by man – the airplane, the automobile, the computer – says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.” ~ Mark Kennedy
- “If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road” ~ Henry Ward Beecher
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“Work is the law of the modern world, which has no place for lazy people.” ~ Mihai Eminescu
- “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
- “Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other’s work.” ~ Ann Rule
- “Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.” ~ Campbell Scott
- “The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.” ~ Pat Conroy
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“Fanatic is often the name given to people of action by people who are lazy.” ~ Bryant H. McGill
- “I like the word “indolence.” It makes my laziness seem classy.” ~ Bernard Williams
- “There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.” ~ Helena Rubinstein
- “Idleness leads to relaxation, sooner or later bringing about ideological and material corruption, accompanied by lack of discipline, anarchy chaos and defeat.” ~ Samora Machel
- “Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.” ~ Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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“Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.” ~ Ambrose Bierce
- “…so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.” ~ Grenville Kleiser
- “The lazy are always wanting to do something.” ~ Luc de Clapiers
- “I’m barely prolific and incredibly lazy.” ~ Tom Petty
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“Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.” ~ James Cash Penney
- “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
- “I know. I’m lazy. But I made myself a New Years’ resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have ’til December, right?” ~ Catherine O’Hara
- “Fatalism is the lazy man’s way of accepting the inevitable.” ~ Natalie Clifford Barney
- “We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds.” ~ Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
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“There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.” ~ Annie Leibovitz
- “It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.” ~ George Henry Borrow
- “There’s much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world’s probably a better place for it.” ~ Douglas Coupland
- “I’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.” ~ Denzel Washington
- “Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover either for grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much-cherished aspect of academic freedom.” ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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“You can’t imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it!” ~ Leo Tolstoy
- “Like most people, I can be lazy, so it’s nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise, or when I’m outdoors. I like to hike, swim and run, and I love to play soccer.” ~ Viggo Mortensen
- “Nothing ages like laziness.” ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
- “Runaway from laziness; work hard. Touch intuition and listen to the heart, not marketing directors. Dream.” ~ Alber Elbaz
- “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
- “People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals – that is, goals that do not inspire them.” ~ Tony Robbins
