Laziness Quotes

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  I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

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• Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

  Anne Frank

  Motivational, Positive, Work

  Anne Frank (1959). “Works”

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  If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.

  Terry Pratchett

  Funny, Motivational, Trust

  FaceBook post by Terry Pratchett from Aug 28, 2015

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• Laziness is the mother of all evils.

  Sophocles

  Mother, Work, Evil

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• Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Work, Lazy

  Benjamin Franklin (1824). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral and Literary, with His Life, Written by Himself”, p.244

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• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Funny, Life, Motivational

  "An Enemy Called Average". Book by John L. Mason, 1990.

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• The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.

  Pat Conroy

  Mean, Greatness, Places In Your Life

  Pat Conroy (1995). “Beach Music”, Nan A. Talese

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• Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

  Jules Renard

  Running, Motivation, Business

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• All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.

  Mark Kennedy

  Airplane, Technology, Men

  "Beer, Boxers, Batteries, And Bodily Noises". Book by Stuart Kantor, p. 39, 2004.

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• There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

  Franz Kafka

  Patience, Art, Spring

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• I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.

  Lech Walesa

  Funny, Science, Cycling

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• The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

  Khalil Gibran

  Courage, House, Lust

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.54, Lulu.com

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

  Charles Spurgeon

  Lazy, Fatigue

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• Nothing ages like laziness.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Age

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• To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Simplicity, Lazy

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.996, Wordsworth Editions

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• Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  "Lord Chesterfield's Advice to His Son, on Men and Manners: Or, A New System of Education". Book by Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield, 1815.

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• Fanatic is often the name given to people of action by people who are lazy.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Names, People, Lazy

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• The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

  Jim Rohn

  Leadership, Being Strong, Business

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 24, 2016

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• The only menace is inertia.

  Saint-John Perse

  Menace, Inertia

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• Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Mind, Glitter, Weak

  'Letters to his Son' (1774) 20 July 1749

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• You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

  Horace

  Sloth, Wicked, Literature

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• Negativity is basically laziness. It takes a lot of hard work to remain positive, but positivity always pays off.

  RuPaul

  Positive, Hard Work, Positivity

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• Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains

  Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet

  Iron, People, Cobwebs

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• If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Stopping, Ruins, Idle

  Henry Ward Beecher (1850). “Industry and idleness: with causes of dishonesty : to which are appended six warnings”, p.33

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• Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.

  James Cash Penney

  Luck, Lasts, Economy

  James Cash Penney, Robert Walter Bruère (1931). “J.C. Penney: the Man with a Thousand Partners: An Autobiography of J.C. Penney”

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