100 Quotes About Laziness

At times, we can be too lazy to do the things that are important in our lives. We delay them, sometimes without realizing it. But what is the most important thing in our lives? The answer is easy: if we can’t do it ourselves, we want someone else to do it for us. We’ve put together a list of quotes about laziness in order to remind you of the importance of getting up and doing what you need to do today.

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Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else. But really there wasn't much point, and I gave up the idea out of laziness. Albert Camus
Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down...
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Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away. Unknown
I've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I...
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I've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance? Ronald Reagan
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The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their intellectual powers and aptitudes as their curiosity, their energy, their fullest use of their potentialities. Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more than we know what to do with. Sydney J. Harris
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We, in the interest of the so-called progress, have been persuaded to leave the production and at times the cooking of our food to companies whose owners and employees make a living by exploiting our busyness or laziness and our innate hunger to continue living. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the...
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Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Knowledge without application is like a book that is never...
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Knowledge without application is like a book that is never read' Christopher Crawford, Hemel Hempstead. Christopher Crawford
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Don’t join the queue of ignorant people who do not know that their time flies away into vanity daily. Don’t be a part of the lazy lot who cannot discipline themselves in solitude to convert their time into products or added value. Sunday Adelaja
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Someone may have all the technical knowledge, scientific intellect and business know-how but when he/she decides to choose laziness, excuses, procrastination, complaining and other bad attitudes, his/her relevance is meaningless. Israelmore Ayivor
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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. Criss Jami
Comfort is a stance of avoidance rather than the pursuit...
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Comfort is a stance of avoidance rather than the pursuit of excellence. Craig D. Lounsbrough
Because of self-doubt, the fear of failure, or laziness, most...
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Because of self-doubt, the fear of failure, or laziness, most people usually bite off way less than they can chew. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
God does not like lazy people, He likes those who...
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God does not like lazy people, He likes those who work Sunday Adelaja
If truth be told, the easy road is nothing more...
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If truth be told, the easy road is nothing more than an armchair in clever disguise. And if you look around, it seems that there are a whole lot of people in the furniture business. Craig D. Lounsbrough
You make name for yourself when you overcome pain, weakness,...
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You make name for yourself when you overcome pain, weakness, laziness and ignorance Sunday Adelaja
If you wait for the mango fruits to fall, you'd...
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If you wait for the mango fruits to fall, you'd be wasting your time while others are learning how to climb the tree Michael Bassey Johnson
His idleness was his refuge, and in this he was...
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His idleness was his refuge, and in this he was like many others in [occupied] France in that period; laziness became political. Iain Pears
If your dream is a big dream, and if you...
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If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there's no way around doing the work it takes to get you there. Joyce Chapman
I will feel no guilt on shutting my door to...
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I will feel no guilt on shutting my door to those who didn't listen. Stefan Molyneux
The worst mistake a writer can make is to assume...
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The worst mistake a writer can make is to assume everyone has an imagination. Andrew McEwan
The men sit around getting fat and arguing with each...
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The men sit around getting fat and arguing with each other about something they call “philosophy” - most of which is pure nonsense. David Eddings
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So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays. N.H. Kleinbaum
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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") Erik Pevernagie
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In the 1960 campaign, Arthur Schlesinger wrote of Adlai Stevenson, who already lost twice as the party's presidential nominee, "He has been away from power too long; he gives me an odd sense of unreality, a certain frivolity, distractedness, over-interest in words and phrases. David Pietrusza
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It was not because I had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, but because Joe had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, that I worked with tolerable zeal against the grain. Charles Dickens
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Those who see poverty looking for human slaves to capture, will tell you they saw him holding the handcuffs of laziness. Israelmore Ayivor
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But we are curious about the result, just as we are curious about the way a book turns out. We do not want to know anything about the anxiety, the distress, the paradox. We carry on an esthetic flirtation with the result. It arrives just as unexpectedly but also just as effortlessly as a prize in a lottery, and when we have heard the result, we have built ourselves up. Unknown
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The city is dirty due to the laziness of the citizens in the country. Lailah Gifty Akita
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So said Hair-Face, and they killed him, because, they said, he was a wild man and wanted to go back and live in a tree. It was very strange. Whenever a man arose and wanted to go forward all those that stood still said he went backward and should be killed. And the poor people helped stone him, and were fools. We were all fools, except those who were fat and did no work. The fools were called wise, and the wise were stoned. Men who worked did not get enough to eat, and the men who did not work ate too much. . Jack London
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We wake up to be alive and to revive our lives; we don’t wake up to keep sleeping! We wake up not just to be alive, but also to keep our works alive and mind the business of the day! When you wake up, revive your work! Sometimes you may just feel reluctant to do something when day breaks, but you must remember that there is always something that needs to be done when day breaks, for each day we meet as we journey in life comes with its own agenda! He who fails to know the real reasons why day breaks shall always abuse the real and true essence of each day, knowingly or unknowingly! Be alive when you wake up and do something with all your might when day breaks for you surely leave a footprint each day you wake up! When you wake up, wake up! . Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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If you are lazy, then undoubtedly you will soon become poor Sunday Adelaja
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HLADE’S LAW: If you have a difficult task give it to a lazy man – he will find an easier way to do it. Arthur Bloch
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Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a portion of mankind, after nature has long since discharged them from external direction (naturaliter maiorennes), nevertheless remains under lifelong tutelage, and why it is so easy for others to set themselves up as their guardians. It is so easy not to be of age. If I have a book which understands for me, a pastor who has a conscience for me, a physician who decides my diet, and so forth, I need not trouble myself. I need not think, if I can only pay - others will easily undertake the irksome work for me. That the step to competence is held to be very dangerous by the far greater portion of mankind.. Immanuel Kant
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Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live. Criss Jami
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Mostly, what people mean by love is laziness. Amanda Craig
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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. Charles Eisenstein
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Assumptions are quick exits for lazy minds that like to graze out in the fields without bother. Suzy Kassem
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When you are fired because of laziness, dare to fire back with the spirit of enthusiasm. Rise up at the same time and at the same place that you have fallen. You can’t give up! Israelmore Ayivor
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You just became the most interesting person at this party. I don't think anyone here has worked an honest day in their lives. Unknown
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Laziness is when your sleep overcomes your passion, not under the influence of drugs but under the control of excuses and procrastination! Israelmore Ayivor
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Your knowledge is not a substitute for your passion. No matter how knowledgeable you are, when laziness takes the lead in your daily decisions, your knowledge becomes valueless! Israelmore Ayivor
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Forbid statements like “will God ever meet me?”, “am I worthy of his blessings?”, “I am not sure God will bless me”, “what shows that I am blessed?”. These statements clearly tell that you are not aware of who you are in the first place. Israelmore Ayivor
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An entrepreneur is born, when a person has more reasons to drive his dreams against his excuses. Sukant Ratnakar
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Don’t be lazy. Hard work brings happiness. There is no other time to avoid being a lazy. Take that decision now. Kick laziness out. Israelmore Ayivor
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We may regard certain days as free days. Free days are however fee days. We will pay later Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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The problem with the ‘herd’ is that our voice is never ‘heard’. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Laziness is always your fault. It is the sign that a man has persevered in uselessness for too long. Idries Shah
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Laziness is when you accede to the misconception that work is unnecessary. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
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Laziness builds walls and fences that keep the mind under control. Auliq Ice
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Waiting patiently for the fatest bone is a dog's lifestyle. Michael Bassey Johnson
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ARE YOU A MOVIE STAR?Prerequisite for Laziness: Creativity, award winning actor/actress, convincing speech Kamil Ali
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If automating everything makes people lazier and lazier, and laziness leads to stupidity, which it does for most people, judging by the current content circulating the social networks everywhere, except North Korea, where they don’t have any internet to speak of - at some point the Japanese robots, for which a market niche is currently being developed, with no concerns on how they should be designed to act in society or outside it - will have no choice, but to take everything over, to preserve us from ourselves… . Will Advise
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The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age. Idries Shah
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Habitual excuses for inactivity indicates little or no interest in what one ought to have done. Itohan Eghide
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I no longer think that laziness is all about being idle. I now know when I become lazy- when I stop learning new things, and cease to grow. Assegid Habtewold
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The distant sea, lapping the sandy shore with measured sound; the nearer cries of the donkey-boys; the unusual scenes moving before her like pictures, which she cared not in her laziness to have fully explained before they passed away; the stroll down to the beach to breathe the sea-air, soft and warm on the sandy shore even at the end of November; the great long misty sea-line touching the tender-coloured sky; the white sail of a distant boat turning silver in some pale sunbeam: - it seemed as if she could dream her life away in such luxury of pensiveness, in which she made her present all in all, from not daring to think of the past, or wishing to contemplate the future. Elizabeth Gaskell
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His was not a lazy trustfulness that hoped, and did no more. Charles Dickens
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Love is without a doubt the laziest theory for the meaning of life, but when it actually comes a time to do it we find just enough energy to over-complicate life again. Any devil can love, whom he himself sees as, a good person who has treated him well, but to love also the polar opposite is what separates love from fickle emotions. Criss Jami
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Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself. Julia Cameron
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If you haven’t figured it out yet, an absolutely certain way to lose something as quickly as possible is to forget the privilege you have to possess it in the first place. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Loosers want it but only through the easy way. If action taking were like reading a story book, loosers would only love to open the picture pages Israelmore Ayivor
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They call it "business" because it does not become successful by a person's "idleness". Go get busy if you want to do business; but be busy for the right reasons! Israelmore Ayivor
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When you come across an excellent invention, what it should tell you is that someone used most of his sleeping time as his thinking time... and he kept doing the same until his good became better and his better became the best! Israelmore Ayivor
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True blessing comes in the dress of sweats, never delaying to wave bye to the excuses and procrastination. True blessing lies in hard work! Israelmore Ayivor
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Opportunity never arrives, it only walks by. Chance never comes, it only knocks at the door. Never think the success will jump into your palms; you must work for it! Israelmore Ayivor
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Don't wait for people to dress your bed for you, do it yourself and you'll be glad to sleep and feel relaxed. Michael Bassey Johnson
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It is not the dream of what you're feeling laziness, if not, the sleep of exhaustion. Edmondo De Amicis
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It all starts with you, and that which never starts, also finishes with you. Anthony Liccione
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It's easy to make a mess when you're not the one who has to clean it up. Criss Jami
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Laziness is not particularly terrible or wonderful. Rather it has a basic living quality that deserves to be experienced just as it is. Perhaps we’ll find an irritating, pulsating quality in laziness. We might feel it as dull and heavy or as vulnerable and raw. Whatever we discover, as we explore it further, we find nothing to hold on to, nothing solid, only groundless, wakeful energy. This process of experiencing laziness directly and nonverbally is transformative. It unlocks a tremendous energy that is usually blocked by our habit of running away. This is because when we stop resisting laziness, our identity as the one who is lazy begins to fall apart completely. Without the blinders of ego, we connect with a fresh outlook, a greater vision. This is how laziness–or any other demon–introduces us to the compassionate life. . Unknown
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Shrink wrapped ideas and prefabricated thoughts are a result of sloth and laziness. ("Prêt-à-penser") Erik Pevernagie
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I decided I would teach Mrs. P. a lesson by cooking my own meal. Paul Murray
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Reclined legs don't get fed, they get limp like boiled spaghetti. Walk it out! T.F. Hodge
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Most journeys are armchair calculations strategically charted in some reclined state that are designed to allow us to embark upon a grand journey without ever leaving the armchair. However, real journeys are absent of furniture. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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The self can watch itself becoming lazy, or non-watchful; this is an asset that can make both for humor and profound well-being. Eli Siegel
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Surrender is a choice, it is never a calling. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Conformity begins the moment you ignore how you feel for acceptance. Shannon L. Alder
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Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but ignores its relation to the past; neither the lazy nor the impatient man, that is, accepts the present instant in its full reality and so cannot love his neighbour completely. W.h. Auden
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Laziness bears the fruit of hunger and crimes, and those who choose the right path are those willing to pay the price Michael Bassey Johnson
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Nobody is responsible for your sorrows and poverty, not even the devil. It is the work of the enemies of time that lives in some men, and their names are, 'Laziness and Procrastination'. Michael Bassey Johnson
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Those who are weak, never suck the blood of the enemy, as it is to be done with strength. Auliq Ice
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Lack of self-confidence is, more often than not, simple laziness. We feel confused and uncertain because we do not know. But instead of making the effort to investigate, we procrastinate and worry. We tell ourselves we can't instead of learning how we can. If we used the mental energy we expend in worry and fear to get out and find out about what we do not know, we would see our self-confidence grow. Lack of self-confidence is not overcome by faith, but by action. It is a lack, not of certainty, but of effort. Too often we are certain that we can't before we give ourselves a fair chance. Laurence G. Boldt
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Success is not for everyone, but if everyone had a phobia of failure, success was going to be a common thing. Unarine Ramaru
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These are the words of a fool: I am happy to be a fool, for i won't spend my time gazing at lines difficult to decipher, while my mates are drinking with glee. Michael Bassey Johnson
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But I'm really enjoying my retirement. I get to sleep in every day. I do crossword puzzles and eat cake. Derek Landy
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If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and hold the pen. Michael Bassey Johnson
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Capture your youth, while you can. Anthony Liccione
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I wonder what inspires gamblers. Is it the adventure or the love of laziness? Paul Bamikole
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Users of clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War produces many euphemisms, downplaying or giving verbal respectability to savagery and slaughter. Patrick Cockburn
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Intelligent men do not decide any subject until they have carefully examined both or all sides of it. Fools, cowards, and those too lazy to think, accept blindly, without examination, dogmas and doctrines imposed upon them in childhood by their parents, priests, and teachers, when their minds were immature and they could not reason. James Hervey Johnson
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When you're working, some people relax and wait for the invisible right time, but when they see your fortune, they wake up and strategize an envious attack. Michael Bassey Johnson
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Never permit fears, doubts, circumstances, laziness or the lack of ambition to force you into leaving any stone unturned. Unknown
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There is no such thing as senility when it comes to envy, greed laziness, wrath and pride. It's her destructive character from childhood." ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You Angelica Hopes
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Never underestimate the capacity of people to choose the easy way. William James Moore
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Being Good and Lazy human is Deadly combination. Talees Rizvi
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Some seek only the appearance of justice and virtues. Some seek real justice and virtues. Some others are too lazy to search at all. Klaudio Marashi
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I should be inclined, therefore, as I have hinted before, to consider the world and this life as the mighty process of God, not for the trial, but for the creation and formation of mind, a process necessary to awaken inert, chaotic matter into spirit, to sublimate the dust of the earth into soul, to elicit an ethereal spark from the clod of clay. And in this view of the subject, the various impressions and excitements which man receives through life may be considered as the forming hand of his Creator, acting by general laws, and awakening his sluggish existence, by the animating touches of the Divinity, into a capacity of superior enjoyment. The original sin of man is the torpor and corruption of the chaotic matter in which he may be said to be born. Thomas Robert Malthus
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Laziness - The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age. Idries Shah
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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. Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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New Rule: Apple's next device must be a computer that you control with your tongue. Thanks for eliminating the keyboard and the mouse, but pointing and pushing at things already seems too complicated and tiring. We're Americans--and until you free our hands from the computer entirely, we can never attain our ultimate goal: Web surfing while eating and masturbating. Bill Maher