If you have noticed that you are feeling lazier than usual, and are wondering how to overcome laziness, you might be considering the wrong thing altogether. Sometimes, the answer to the question of how to control laziness isn’t all about how to stick to a plan, but how to take better care of yourself, so you have more energy. Get more rest. If you’re feeling lazy, you might be fatigued. If you haven’t been sleeping properly, then your body is not functioning at its peak, and you might just need a few hours of extra sleep every night to get you back on top form. These laziness quotes are interesting and fun to read.
35 Laziness Quotes
- “Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do.” Elbert Hubbard
- “Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand-and melting like a snowflake.” Francis Bacon
- “Curiosity, rationalization, and laziness are no match against courage, self-control, and mental toughness.” John Bytheway
- “Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.” Steven Grayhm
- “I don’t think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.” Agatha Christie
- “The lazy man claims he is too heavy for light work and too light for heavy work.” Evan Esar
- “Excuses destroy success every time.” Jon Taffer
- “I will choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.” Bill Gates
- “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” Jim Rohn
- “Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.” Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- “Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.” Jules Renard
- “The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked.” Napoleon Hill
- “I never work just to work. It’s some combination of laziness and self-respect.” Harold Ramis
- “My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.” Charles Dickens
- “Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.” Anne Frank
- “Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.” Napoleon Bonaparte
- “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” Abraham Lincoln
- “Loafing needs no explanation and is its own excuse.” Christopher Morley
- “Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses in your life; you realize everything that happens in life is a result of the previous choice you’ve made and start making new choices to change your life.” Roy T. Bennett
- “Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.” Philip Dormer
- “No one ever excused his way to success.” Dave Del Dotto
- “The life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things.” Benjamin Franklin
- “Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains. The more one has to do, the more he is able to accomplish.” Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
- “Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.” Robert Heinlein
- “You will find that the more successful the individual, the less inclined he is to make excuses.” David Joseph Schwartz
- “Nothing ages like laziness.” Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- “Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable.” Zig Ziglar
- “Lazy will always attribute genius to some ‘inspiration’ that comes for mere waiting.” Will Durant
- “Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.” Charles Caleb Colton
- “The slothful man is the beggar’s brother.” James Kelly
- “We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work.” Thomas A. Edison
- “When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.” Walter Annenberg
- “Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.” Paul Terry
- “You can have excuses or you can have success; you can’t have both.” Jen Sincero
- “The world is full of willing people; Some willing to work, The rest willing to let them.” Robert Frost
