378 Quotes About Laziness

Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.

From our immersion in scarcity arise the habits of scarcity. From the scarcity of time arises the habit of hurrying. From the scarcity of money comes the habit of greed. From the scarcity of attention comes the habit of showing off. From the scarcity of meaningful labor comes the habit of laziness. From the scarcity of unconditional acceptance comes the habit of manipulation.

I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace is a permit for destruction: The unyielding optimist will pretend that the forest is not burning either because he is too lazy or too afraid to go and put the fire out.

It’s hard to safeguard a genuine life course, when love tips over from endearing care into tedium, through laziness of imagination or loss of interest, and the storyline becomes barren and desolate, insipidly dull, turning into a threadbare act with the same trite modus operandi. “The same procedure as every year, James!” ("Things needing to be changed")

A good effort is not necessarily our best. And our best effort is not necessarily good.

Capture your youth, while you can.

One excuse, could destroy a multitude of chances.

Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live.

Too much comfort is not healthy, for it makes us lazy, and when we are lazy we stop growing.