Quotes on Laziness

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

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

Through laziness and cowardice a large part of mankind, even after nature has freed them from alien guidance, gladly remain immature. It is because of laziness and cowardice that it is so easy for others to usurp the role of guardians. It is so comfortable to be a minor!

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

Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?

Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and nudity would burden them.

Turn on the prudent _x000D_ Ant, thy heedful eyes, _x000D_ Observe her labours, _x000D_ Sluggard, and be wise.

Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride, or laziness of mind.

No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.

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

Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard.

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.

Simplifying our lives does not mean sinking into idleness, but on the contrary, getting rid of the most subtle aspect of laziness: the one which makes us take on thousands of less important activities.

One musts avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness.

There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.

The bias of the mainstream media is toward sensationalism, conflict, and laziness.

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

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

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.

You must work and do good, not be lazy and gamble, if you wish to earn happiness. Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

Laziness and cowardice explain why so many men. . . remain under a life-long tutelage and why it is so easy for some men to set themselves up as the guardians of all the rest. . . If I have a book which understands for me, a pastor who has a conscience for me, a doctor who decides my diet, I need not trouble myself. If I am willing to pay, I need not think. Others will do it for me.