Laziness Quotes - Page 6

Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

Our minds are as much given to laziness as our bodies.

The biggest part of painting perhaps is faith, and waiting receptively, content to go any way, not planning or forcing. The fear, though, is laziness. It is so easy to drift and finally be tossed up on the beach, derelict.

But tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness.

We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.

I'm afraid of being lazy and complacent. I'm afraid of taking myself too seriously.

Once you start making money, you can be an ass. But I am not an ass. I'm too lazy, that takes a lot of energy.

I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.

The welfare system in this country has literally crippled millions. It has gotten people bound and gagged so that they cannot get off it. It is such a fouled-up system.

It is better to be idle than employed in ill.

There are times when I just can't bring myself to sit down and write and I'm never sure whether it's pure laziness or lack of courage - there's always the thought in the back of my mind that my writing won't be good enough.

Tradition is laziness.

Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and nudity would burden them.

I'm like the laziest person who ever lived. It's amazing to me I even sit up.

True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom.

Man is brilliant at solving problems; but solving them only makes him the victim of his own childishness and laziness. It is this recognition that has made almost every major philosopher in history a pessimist.

There's nothing new about anti-work philosophy. History is dotted with individuals and groups who decided that laziness was next to godliness and work was a waste of time.

I ask myself, 'why am I so lazy?' and am too lazy to reply.

There is a - deep down, underneath all the work I do, I think there's a laziness in me.

Faith is intellectual laziness.

Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear.

Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good.

Of all our faults, the one we avow most easily is idleness; we persuade ourselves that it is allied to all the peaceable virtues,and as for the others, that it does not destroy them utterly, but only suspends the exercise of their functions.

For the lazy, all work is difficult.