Inspirational Quotes on Laziness

“Many are idly busy; Domitian was busy, but then it was in catching flies.”

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

“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.”

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

“Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.”

“Such is man's nature, that he is very inactive and lazy unless he is influenced by some affection, either love or hatred, desire, hope, fear, or some other. These affections we see to be the springs that set men agoing, in all the affairs of life, and engage them in all their pursuits: these are the things that put men forward, and carry them along.”

“Those that dare lose a day, ate dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, are desperate.”

“For truth and duty it is ever the fitting time; who waits until circumstances completely favor his undertaking, will never accomplish anything.”

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

“We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to be so.”

“Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.”

“You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.”

“I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.”

“Friend, you cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. And what one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government can't give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody. And when half of the people get the idea they don't have to work because the other half's going to take care of them, and when the other half get the idea it does no good to work because somebody's going to get what I work for. That, dear friend, is about the end of any nation.”

“The welfare system in this country has literally crippled millions. It has gotten people bound and gagged so that they cannot get off it. It is such a fouled-up system.”

“So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit.”

“He lives long that lives well; and time misspent is not lived, but lost. God is better than his promise if he takes from him a long lease, and gives him a free hold of a better value.”

“Nothing is easy to the unwilling.”

“Spill not the morning (the quintessence of the day!) in recreations, for sleep is a recreation. Add not, therefore, sauce to sauce. Pastime, like wine, is poison in the morning. It is then good husbandry to sow the head, which hath lain fallow all night, with some serious work.”

“Men could be content to have the kingdom of Heaven; but they are loathe to fight for it. They choose rather to go in a feather bed to Hell than to be carried to Heaven in a 'fiery chariot' of zeal and violence.”