Top 55 Laziness Quotes

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.

Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

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.

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

Laziness works. And the simple way to incorporate its health benefits into your life is simply to take a nap.

As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.

To be violent is the ultimate laziness. War always seems a great effort, but it is the easy way. And false non-violence is also an idol.

Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

Periods of inactivity, I don’t know such things. I’m consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent laziness.

Hard work – I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn’t fly. It’s all in the practice. It does take work and it ain’t easy – but man, the rewards!

At high school, instead of the weekly essay, I would write a poem, and the teacher accepted that. The impulse was one of laziness, I’m certain. Poems were shorter than essays.

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

I’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

I think sometimes with experience, it brings a sense of laziness and complacency. I try not to get complacent.

I’d love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don’t consider laziness a sin at all.

Some women just skip having babies or adopt because they don’t want to get fat or they haven’t put in the time to find a partner. It’s great to adopt, but a lot of adoptions are motivated by vanity and laziness.

Humility’s a real thing – not just a fine name for laziness.

It seems to be the modern Canadian approach to Indigenous people: rather than deny their problems or accuse them of creating them through their own laziness, which was how my parents’ generation dealt with the question, we now smother them with humid apologies and abnegation, but not actual compensation.

There seems to be such a laziness in – and I hate to use this phrase – the modern world. Everything is pumped out so quickly so that you can read it while passing by, like billboards or those flashcards before movie shows.

Things come in a quieter way to me. It’s not laziness, and it’s not diffidence. I just know how far you have to bend for work. That’s important for me.

My laziness is really profound. I’m really interested in where it comes from – it almost feels chemical. And we’ve all got ADD now, short attention span and all that.

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

I don’t like laziness or cutting corners.

Laziness isn’t merely a physical phenomenon,about being a couch potato,stuffing your face with fries and watching cricket all day. It’s a mental thing, too, and that’s the part I have never aspired for.

Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.

Often, psychological laziness will have you switch your life over to autopilot and fall asleep at the wheel rather than stay awake to what will fulfill your heart’s deepest desires and your soul’s purpose.

Ignorance is a matter of laziness, indifference, and apathy.

Working on newspapers, you’re writing to a certain length, often very brief pieces; you tend to look for easy forms of humor – women can’t drive, things like that. That’s about the level of a lot of newspaper humor. It becomes a form of laziness.

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.

I like the word ‘indolence’. It makes my laziness seem classy.

The reason laziness is rarely pushed as a lifestyle option is down to one simple reason: money. There are fortunes to be made out of active lifestyles. Gyms charge fees. But no one is going to make money out of sleep. It is free.

I hate the hand that comes out of a car and just drops litter in the street. I hate that! For some reason, it just fills me with fury! It’s just utter laziness, lack of interest in other people, lack of interest in the planet, in the hedgehog who might eat the plastic bag, it’s a lack of concern.

I put my parents through mini hell with my laziness and poor grades, so I love making them laugh when they see me on television. When I work, I’m always thinking, ‘Would my mother find this funny?’ The belly-laugh jokes will hit her every time.

Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it’s only kept a secret from the person who fails.

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.

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.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

We face fear many times a day, in many ways, and usually we turn away from it. It often hides itself behind laziness and complacency, which are its shadows and aliases. We accept the things-as-they-are world in which we are comfortable.

It’s amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people yourself is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral, self-righteous, bullying laziness.

When you give someone a commitment to ride their horse, you do it – unless, God forbid, something serious has happened. It would be laziness not to do it.

I often make films about subjects I don’t really know much about. Maybe it’s laziness, but I don’t go in there having done a tonne of research; the research happens while I’m making the film.

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.

I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.

I never work just to work. It’s some combination of laziness and self-respect.

There is a – deep down, underneath all the work I do, I think there’s a laziness in me.

Hard work isn’t enough. And more work is never the real answer. The sort of grit you need to scale a business is less reliant on brute force. It’s actually one part determination, one part ingenuity, and one part laziness.

The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.

I’m not the kind of person who works 24 hours a day, mostly out of laziness; I don’t know.

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

I’m comfortably asocial – a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I’m not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.

It’s a disease of critics that once they’ve labeled someone, it’s very hard to change their perspective. It’s laziness.