Laziness Quotes

“The idle man is the devil's cushion.”

“My ambition is handicapped by my laziness”

“The lazy are always wanting to do something.”

“At ease in a world in which my Lord was such a sufferer!”

“LAZINESS, n. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.”

“Sleepiness and laziness in a man are the beginning of his misfortune.”

“There is no such thing as a lazy person; he is either sick or uninspired.”

“[M]an when not stimulated by hope or necessity is naturally a lazy animal.”

“Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle.”

“Be always employed about some rational thing that the devil find thee not idle.”

“Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.”

“Wikipedia: Laziness”

“An idler is a watch that wants both hands;
As useless when it goes as when it stands.”

“The worst idleness is that of the heart. Think of the condition and prospects of a voiceless, thankless, prayerless heart.”

“Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.”

“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.”

“When you and I are inclined to nestle down in indolence and self-indulgence, God " stirs up our nests;" and bids us fly upward.”

“I don't think necessity is the mother of invention — invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.”

“A good many people are complaining all the time about themselves, and crying out, "My leanness! my leanness!" when they ought rather to say, " My laziness! my laziness!"”

“The passive idler of all men in the world is the most difficult to please. Those who do the least themselves are always the severest critics upon the noble achievements of others.”