Inspirational Quotes on Laziness

“Only those who want everything done for them are bored.”

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

“And no one ever told me about the laziness of grief. Except at my job--where the machine seems to run on much as usual--I loathe the slightest effort. Not only writing but even reading a letter is too much.”

“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.”

“As we become soft and lazy in our bodies, we tend to become soft and lazy spiritually.”

“There is no danger: he is suffering from drowsiness, that disease which attacks so many minds which have been deceived.”

“How much more than necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says.”

“Idling of our elders is called business; the idling of boys, though quite like it, is punished by those same elders, and no one pities either the boys or the men.”

“But we are curious about the result, just as we are curious about the way a book turns out. We do not want to know anything about the anxiety, the distress, the paradox. We carry on an esthetic flirtation with the result. It arrives just as unexpectedly but also just as effortlessly as a prize in a lottery, and when we have heard the result, we have built ourselves up.”

“It was not because I had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, but because Joe had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, that I worked with tolerable zeal against the grain.”

“His was not a lazy trustfulness that hoped, and did no more.”

“Many say they can't get God's guidance, when they really mean they wish He would show them an easier way.”

“Taking it easy is often the prelude to backsliding. Comfort precedes collapse.”

“Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave - with both ends kicked out.”

“If we don't come apart; we will come apart.”

“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 hogpens.”

“Human nature is above all things lazy.”

“Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.”

“Many, I fear, would like glory, who have no wish for grace. They would [want to] have the wages, but not the work; the harvest, but not the labor; the reaping, but not the sowing; the reward, but not the battle. But it may not be.”

“None should expect to prosper who go out of way of duty.”