Laziness Quotes

Shun idleness is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

Leonardo DaVinci

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

Miguel de Cervantes

You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My godmother used to say, I don't want to rust out, I just want to work out. If you stand still long enough, people will throw dirt on you.

Ben Vereen

Too many young people itch for what they want without scratching for it.

Thomas Taylor

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

Jeremy Collier

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

C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon

I've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?

Ronald Reagan

Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.

Elizabeth Smart

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

Jerome K. Jerome

We have so many labor-saving devices today that we go broke keeping them repaired. Everything is easier, but requires greater maintenance.

Lorne Sanny

The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.

Soren Kierkegaard

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

Soren Kierkegaard

Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay.

Richard Weaver

Habitual procrastinators will readily testify to all the lost opportunities, missed deadlines, failed relationships and even monetary losses incurred just because of one nasty habit of putting things off until it is often too late.

Stephen Richards

'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, you have waked me too soon, I must slumber again.

Isaac Watts

Life is mostly froth and bubble. Two things stand like stone: Dodging duty at the double, leaving work alone.

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Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them --their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table.

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Prolonged idleness paralyzes initiative.

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Millions are idle, but it's comforting to know that most of them have jobs.

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