Inspirational Quotes on Laziness

“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.”

“Hem bilindiği gibi, tembellik bütün kusurların anasıdır.”

“Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.”

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

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

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

“There are individuals who have never done anything for Jesus Christ, and I have no doubt there are preachers as well, who have never done anything for the God Almighty.”

“The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.”

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

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

“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.”

“People who are lazy, careless, doubtful-minded or arrogant need not expect God to reveal His secret or covenant to them.”

“Are you placed where others are sitting down idly, doing nothing? Rise to the work with all your powers; and when the sweat stands upon your brow, and you are tempted to loiter, cry, "No, I cannot stop, for I am Christ's. If I were not purchased by blood, I might be like Issachar, crouching between two burdens; but I am Christ's, and cannot loiter.”

“The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.”

“Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good.”

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

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

“Nothing is easy to the unwilling.”

“Frequently what we say is rest is merely laziness. Our body requires respite and so does our mind and spirit. But a person should never rest because of a laziness which arises from the evil nature in his emotion. How often laziness and emotional distaste for work join to employ physical fatigue as a cover-up.”

“Superficial efficiency seems cheaper at first, but it costs more the long run, with the cost being pushed off onto someone other than the one who saves a few bucks.”