Lazy Quotes

“Really, these wizards! You'd think no one had ever had a cold before! Well, what is it?" she asked, hobbling through the bedroom door onto the filthy carpet.
"I'm dying of boredom," Howl said pathetically. "Or maybe just dying.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it's an art form that benefits everyone.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Choice

“Stay away from lazy parasites, who perch on you just to satisfy their needs, they do not come to alleviate your burdens, hence, their mission is to distract, detract and extract, and make you live in abject poverty.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“A single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day stolen, mutilated, and discarded in the gutter of destiny.”
― Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White

“People are not lazy, they simply have impotent goals..that is..goals that do not inspire them.”
― Anthony Robbins

“Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.”
― Julia Cameron, The Prosperous Heart

“There are no ugly women, only lazy ones”
― Helena Rubinstein

“I have a sense that God is unfair and preferentially punishes his weak, his dumb, his fat, his lazy. I believe he takes more pleasure in his perfect creatures, and cheers them on like a brainless dad as they run roughshod over the rest of us. He gives us a need for love, and no way to get any. He gives us a desire to be liked, and personal attributes that make us utterly unlikable. Having placed his flawed and needy children in a world of exacting specifications, he deducts the difference between what we have and what we need from our hearts and our self-esteem and our mental health.”
― George Saunders, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline

“I'm lazy! I hate work! Hate hard work in all its forms! Clever shortcuts, that's all I'm about!”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

“Foolishness sleeps soundly, while knowledge turns with each thinking hour, longing for the dawn of answers.”
― Anthony Liccione

“I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job because he will find an easy way to do it.”
― Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

“but I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment.”
― David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

“It's easy to make a mess when you're not the one who has to clean it up.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Somebody has said that dust is matter in the wrong place. The same definition applies to nine-tenths of those called lazy. They are people gone astray in a direction that does not answer to their temperament nor to their capacities. In reading the biography of great men, we are struck with the number of "idlers" among them. They were lazy so long as they had not found the right path; afterwards they became laborious to excess. Darwin, Stephenson, and many others belonged to this category of idlers.”
― Pyotr Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread

“Assumptions are quick exits for lazy minds that like to graze out in the fields without bother.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Abolishers of the soul (materialists) are necessarily abolishers of hell, they, certainly, are interested. At all events, they are people who fear to live again--lazy people.”
― Charles Baudelaire, Intimate Journals

“Humankind above all is lazy.”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe

“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, Daily Drive 365

“God, don't they teach you how to spell these days?"

"No," I answer. "They teach us to use spell-check.”
― Jodi Picoult

“Diet food is for lazy people.”
― Ice-T

“Exercise - ugh - never one of my favorite things. It wasn't that I was endearingly clumsy like the girl in one of my favorite romance novels, nor was I particularly athletic, either. I suppose, if the truth be told, I was just plain lazy. I had never been attracted to the idea of purposely sweating.

Grace”
― Lisa C. Temple, Illuminating Gracie

“Making something take longer than necessary is probably the worst example of work ethic and is patently lazy, but looks busy...not cool.”
― Richie Norton

“Destiny is a calling too often forfeited in lieu of leisure.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Apathy is death by convenience.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We, the people, should take more responsibility for doing things the hard, proper way instead of the easy, inaccurate way.”
― Christopher Manske, Outsmart the Money Magicians: Maximize Your Net Worth by Seeing Through the Most Powerful Illusions Performed by Wall Street and the IRS

“Maybe you’re that ‘someone else’ whose job everything appears to be.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“An idle mind is a depressive mind.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Last I remember a beat in my body
My heart felt warm
Lazy, and yellow
Maybe that was love.”
― Devika Todi, Sun On My Hands: A Poetry and Prose Collection

“Having a job is tricky. You don't want to be so productive that you make your coworkers appear like slackers, and you don't want to do so little that your coworkers have to make up for your lack of effort.”
― Jarod Kintz, A Memoir of Memories and Memes

“Apathy is the act of depositing ideas into a bank of knowledge from which nothing is ever withdrawn.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough