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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.
John Hagee
'Entreat not the Lord to furnish that which you can acquire by your own efforts; rise up and make it yours, for God will only give what you cannot attain.'
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For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.
Isaac Watts
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Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.
Jim Elliot
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Idleness leads to relaxation, sooner or later bringing about ideological and material corruption, accompanied by lack of discipline, anarchy chaos and defeat.
Samora Machel
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God is missed through laziness, indifference and unwillingness.
Jesse Duplantis
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My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.
Anthony Hopkins
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I have little tolerance for incompetence, sloppy thinking, and laziness.
Michael E. DeBakey
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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.
Jerome Bruner
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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.
Lev Landau
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Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.
Peter Marshall
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It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Thomas Jefferson
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Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.
Floyd Dell
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If we don't progress, we backslide into bad habits, laziness and poor attitude.
Dan Gable
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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
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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.
Vance Havner
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Laziness breeds humors of the blood.
Galen
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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!
Patch Adams
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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.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.
Samuel Johnson
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Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.
Ann Rule
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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
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The habit of taking the line of least resistance makes all rivers and some men crooked.
Napoleon Hill
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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
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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.
Wyndham Lewis
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Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.
Jane Hirshfield
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The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
Oscar Wilde
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You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.
Horace
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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.
Charles Spurgeon
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I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
Tom Petty
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Buzyness, however, is moral laziness because it involves refusing to live with courage and intentionality.
Dan B. Allender
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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.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
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Many say they can't get God's guidance, when they really mean they wish He would show them an easier way.
Winkie Pratney
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Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!
Mary Boykin Chesnut
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Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.
Campbell Scott
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It's easier to pick off a fast runner than to pick off a lazy runner.
Vin Scully
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Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to it himself.
A. H. Weiler
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There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.
Charles Spurgeon
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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.
Claudio Naranjo
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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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Don't tolerate lazy people. They are losers.
Bear Bryant
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Change is hard because people wear themselves out. And that’s the second surprise about change: What looks like laziness is often exhaustion.
Chip Heath
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Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.
Kingsley Amis
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I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive.
Charles Evers
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Cut the bondage of all worldly affections; go beyond laziness and all care as to what becomes of you.
Swami Vivekananda