Laziness Quotes

Never ask God to provide for you what you can provide for yourself. Get up and go get it because God will only provide what you can't.

For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.

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

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

Idleness leads to relaxation, sooner or later bringing about ideological and material corruption, accompanied by lack of discipline, anarchy chaos and defeat.

God is missed through laziness, indifference and unwillingness.

My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.

I have little tolerance for incompetence, sloppy thinking, and laziness.

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.

Everybody has a capacity for a happy life. All these talks about how difficult times we live in, that's just a clever way to justify fear and laziness.

Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.

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

Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.

If we don't progress, we backslide into bad habits, laziness and poor attitude.

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.

There is a trend today that would put a new robe on the prodigal son while he is still feeding hogs. Some would put the ring on his finger while he still in the pigsty. Others would paint the pigsty and advocate bigger and better hog pens.

See what no one else sees. See what everyone chooses not to see... out of fear, conformity or laziness. See the whole world anew each day!

Laziness breeds humors of the blood.

I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.

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

A writer's work is the product of laziness.

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

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

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.

The habit of taking the line of least resistance makes all rivers and some men crooked.

Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.

Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men.

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.

I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.

Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.

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.

That man is idle who can do something better.

Buzyness, however, is moral laziness because it involves refusing to live with courage and intentionality.

Every man is as lazy as he dares to be.

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

Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!

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

It's easier to pick off a fast runner than to pick off a lazy runner.

Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to it himself.

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

Not wanting to see, not wanting to be in touch with one's experience is something akin to cognitive laziness, an eclipse of the experiencer or inner witnessing in the person.

Don't tolerate lazy people. They are losers.

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

We are not the slaves of laziness, we are the slaves of WiFi.

The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.

Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly.

Laziness is a programmers main virtue.