The 90 best quotes about laziness

Quotes and reflections about laziness, an aspect of life that sometimes prevents us from moving forward.

In Christianity, laziness is recognized as part of the 7 deadly sins, because it is an external representation of the inability of people to take responsibility for their actions and seek to improve.

The big problem with this is that the consequences of the decision to adopt this passive mentality are not measured, allowing problems to accumulate. To better understand this phenomenon, here is a review of the best phrases about lazinesscommented.

The most memorable phrases about laziness

This is a selection of the best phrases of laziness that invite you to reflect on this psychological state.

1. Laziness is nothing but the habit of resting before being tired. (Jules Renard)

A reflection on the bad habit of wasting time.

2. A lazy person is a clock without hands, being useless whether he is walking or standing still. (William Cowper)

He ends up becoming a heavy burden on everyone.

3. Lazy people always talk about what they intend to do, about what they will do; those who really do something have no time to talk about what they do. (Johann von Goethe)

Procrastination is part of laziness.

4. Laziness is my favorite reason to get up, make a plan, do the work, and love myself. (Paloma Cameron)

Those who use laziness as a motivator to not give in.

5. The working time for diligent people is now, while the working time for lazy people is tomorrow. (Abdullah Gymnastiar)

This is how you recognize a person who does not want to get involved in the events of his life.

6. A man with laziness is an unwound watch. (Jaime Balmes)

He may be lost and not find his way.

7. Laziness is the mother of poverty. (Popular proverb)

You can't get ahead if you don't work for it.

8. You will find that the more successful the individual is, the less inclined he is to make excuses. (David Joseph Schwartz)

Successful people always find solutions.

9. The man who can employ himself better and does not do so is an indolent man. (Thomas Fuller)

The result of being stuck in the comfort zone.

10. In most men, difficulties are the children of laziness. (Samuel Johnson)

The unwillingness to take risks for fear of the unknown.

11. Give orders, do no more and no one will move. (Spanish Proverb)

It is not enough just to speak, but to demonstrate.

12. Worry germinates in the cradle of ignorant laziness. (Pythagoras Of Samos)

We worry about things we would rather avoid than face.

13. If the whole year were a holiday, having fun would be duller than working. (William Shakespeare)

Do you agree with this reflection?

14. The elevator to success broke down a long time ago, the problem is that many people are too lazy to climb the stairs. (Jacob Maldonado)

Success doesn't happen overnight.

15. There is no passion more powerful than the passion of laziness. (Samuel Beckett)

A sin that tempts many.

16. To work when you are lazy is a real test of your character. (Stephen Covey)

It's the way you prove to yourself that you can stand up to anything, even your fears.

17. Laziness may seem attractive, but work gives satisfaction. (Anne Frank)

When we get used to laziness, we then feel useless.

18. Laziness never did anything well. (Proverb)

Laziness does not bear good fruit.

19. Excuses destroy success every time. (Jon Taffer)

Excuses cause people to lose confidence.

20. Laziness is but the refuge of the faint-hearted. (Earl of Chesterfield)

It is an abyss that is difficult to overcome but not impossible.

21. People who are lazy have wasted the opportunity that God has given them, even though God has never created anything in vain. (Mario Teguh)

Lazy people often miss many valuable opportunities.

22. He who postpones everything will leave nothing concluded or perfect. (Democritus of Abdera)

Something left half done is useless.

23. My idleness leaves me no free time for anything. (Alphonse Allais)

Laziness consumes all possible time.

24. Idleness is the mother of all vices. (Jostein Gaarder)

Leisure time wasted can be a terrible enemy.

25. Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence. (James Cash Penney)

It's no use having talent if you don't have the right preparation.

26. People are in a hurry to magnify themselves by imitating what is popular and too lazy to think of anything better. (Thomas Merton)

Many tend to play it safe, even though it makes them followers.

27. In order not to work, the sluggard pretends that there is a lion lurking in the street. (Biblical Proverb)

The way in which the lazy excuse themselves.

28. Boredom is a consequence of laziness.

That is why we must always have something to entertain us.

29. For me laziness is inexcusable. No one is obliged to be a genius - I am not - but everyone must participate in the great poetry that is our civilization and, therefore, work. (Philippe Starck)

Everyone must contribute their grain of sand to society in general.

30. Don't miss what could be the best chapter of your life because you're too busy rereading the last one. (Kandi Steiner)

Sometimes laziness arises from the fear of being wrong again.

31. Dreams are not made of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition. (Napoleon Hill)

Dreams must be made of motivation.

32. No one needs a vacation more than he who has just had one. (Elbert Green Hubbard)

The charm of an eternal vacation.

33. It is not easy to get up on a gray day. The Devil always holds your eyelids. (Ralph Ineson)

Even in low spirits, it is never advisable to remain still.

34. Efficiency is intelligent laziness. (David Dunham)

A very curious kind of laziness.

35. People are not lazy, they simply have impotent goals ... that is, goals that do not inspire them. (Anthony Robbins)

Goals that only seem to be achieved by things out of reach.

36. There was a time when sadness was considered a mortal sin, but then it was replaced by laziness. (Jenny Offill)

People have become lazier.

37. If you want to have a lazy husband, buy a bad mare and a good apiary.

(Jenny Offill) A saying about laziness in marriage.

38. Success is not as easy as the winners make it look, nor as hard as the losers make it seem. (Orrin Woodward)

Success comes with perseverance.

39. You get nothing by being lazy. The world only trembles at the feet of the few maddest doers that ever lived. (Olawale Daniel)

Things don't get done by themselves, you achieve them with work.

40. The wise use of leisure is a product of civilization and education. (Bertrand Russell)

Leisure time allows us to relax and helps us to acquire some skill.

41. One does not acquire glory and fame by lying in bed.

A phrase that has everything true.

42. Too many people are too lazy to think. Instead of learning something new, they think the same thought day after day. (Robert Kiyosaki)

When we get stuck in a repetitive thought.

43. The only people who think life should be easy are lazy people. (Robert Kiyosaki)

Life, when it is too easy, teaches us nothing valuable, since it does not present us with challenges from which to learn.

Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow... and never today, lazy people say.

The habit can be extended for a long, long time.

45. There are basically two actions in life: Performance and excuses. Make a decision about what you will accept from yourself. (Steven Brown)

Important decisions that take us forward or backward.

46. How can a society where there are instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners and instant cameras teach patience, not laziness, to its offspring? (Paul Sweeney)

Globalization itself has favored laziness.

47. Work is the law of the modern world, which has no place for lazy people. (Mihai Eminescu)

Laziness should have no place in the world.

48. The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. (Søren Kierkegaard)

There are times when laziness is the result of not wanting to try any more.

49. Successful people don't use the obstacles of time, education, and money as excuses ... they use them as leverage to get help. (Richie Norton)

Productive ways to make the most of your time.

50. Melancholy besets the idle.

When we are sad, we have no desire to do anything beneficial.

51. No verse of scripture gives its meaning to lazy people. (Arthur W. Pink)

Nowhere is laziness praised.

52. Lazy people tend not to take risks, but express themselves by tearing down the work of others. (Ann Rule)

They tend to take advantage of the achievements of others.

53. In the house of the lazy person, all the year is St. John's Day. (Popular proverb)

A permanent personal holiday.

54. Do not give in to fatalism. It will lead you to inertia and laziness. (Bertrand Russell)

When we let ourselves fall, it is difficult to find reasons to emerge.

55. A lazy person, whatever talents he may begin with, has condemned himself to second-rate thoughts and second-rate friends. (Cyril Connolly)

A self-imposed condemnation.

56. I attribute my success to this: I never gave or accepted an excuse. (Florence Nightingale)

The true way to achieve success.

57. Laziness and failure go hand in hand.

It occurs because of the loss of motivation to try again.

58. People who read too much and use their brains too little will fall into lazy habits of thought. (Albert Einstein)

It is useless to come in contact with many ideas if one does not reflect on them.

59. There are people, that the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. (Jane Austen)

They become dependent parasites.

60. Greatly unhappy is he who, having fire, lets himself die of cold, and who, having food before him, lets himself die of hunger. (Saint Catherine of Siena)

Use your capacities to achieve your objectives.

61. To be bored is to crochet with death. (Javier Sanz)

The loss of the enjoyment of life.

62. Our nature is in movement. Absolute rest is death. (Blaise Pascal)

So don't be afraid to change and move too.

63. You can get the results you want or you can have excuses. You can't have both. (Clyde Lee Denni)

Excuses and triumph do not go hand in hand.

64. All the great technological inventions created by man-the airplane, the automobile, the computer-say little about his intelligence, but they say a lot about his laziness. (Mark Kennedy)

There are inventions that encourage laziness.

65. Lazy parents make their children vicious.

Parents are the greatest example to their children, for better or worse.

66. An idle youth will be a needy old man. (English proverb)

Because he will always depend on someone.

67. By the street of "after" you arrive at the square of "never". (Luis Coloma)

Procrastination gets you nowhere.

68. A sleepy cat does not catch a mouse.

Laziness prevents us from taking advantage of that opportunity we are waiting for so long.

69. Thus does idleness corrupt the human body, as the waters are corrupted if they are still. (Ovid)

Leisure can promote negative habits for general health.

70. Successful people have a habit of doing things that lazy people don't like to do. (James Stephens)

Laziness leaves us stuck in our comfort zone.

71. Laziness... never reached the term that a good wish asks for. (Miguel de Cervantes)

We cannot go far if we are stuck in the comfort zone.

72. For a lazy man every day is a vacation. (Turkish proverb)

The way a lazy person sees the world.

73. Much evil, idleness breeds.

It happens when we misuse our time.

74. Laziness is probably the most difficult and tiring way of being what one is. (Georges Perros)

An interesting reflection on the consequences of laziness.

75. Lazy people always intend to start doing something. (Luc de Clapiers)

An intention that never takes the first step.

76. Laziness, that is to say, the passion of inaction, has, in order to triumph, one advantage over the other passions, and that is that it demands nothing. (Jaime Luciano Balmes)

It is very easy to let ourselves be carried away by laziness.

77. What is the most universal human characteristic: fear... or laziness?

A question with a difficult answer.

78. The worst disease is boredom. (Freddie Mercury)

It leads us to try bad things.

79. The devil often finds work for those who find none for themselves. (Benjamin Whichcote)

Sooner or later, you will pay the consequences of your actions.

80. My ambition is limited by my laziness. (Charles Bukowski)

A consequence that many artists share.

81. To work it is enough to be convinced of one thing: that working is less boring than having fun. (Charles Baudelaire)

That is why it is important to love what we do.

82. The laziness of our spirit is greater than that of our body. (François de La Rochefoucauld)

That is why it is so heavy and addictive.

83. The only time a lazy man succeeds is when he tries to do nothing. (Evan Esar)

There he is an expert.

84. Idleness does not fill the belly. (Proverb)

You can't sustain yourself by doing nothing.

85. Those who live in vain bury themselves dearly. (Valeriu Butulescu)

So try to have ambitions for your life.

86. I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success. Great things come from hard work and perseverance. There are no excuses. (Kobe Bryant)

Lazy people always blame others for what they don't have.

87. He who procrastinates will leave nothing finished or perfect. (Democritus of Abdera)

Everything that begins needs to be finished.

88. Hunger is the inseparable companion of the sluggard. (Hesiod)

Two sins that go perfectly hand in hand.

89. The day is too long for those who do not know how to appreciate and use it. (Johann von Goethe)

How idlers see the passing of time.

90. Laziness travels so slowly that poverty does not take long to catch up with it. (Benjamin Franklin)

You cannot be successful by being lazy.