128 Feeling Lazy Quotes

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Famous Feeling Lazy Quotes

It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care — Ron Livingston

I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy. — Tom Petty

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something. — Marquis De Vauvenargues

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. - Anne Frank

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. — Anne Frank

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. - Jules Renard

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. — Jules Renard

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. — Mortimer Caplan

The sleepy like to make excuses. — Benedict of Nursia

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it. — Bill Gates

Laziness is the mother of all evils. — Sophocles

Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man. — Jimmy Lyons

Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy. - Swami Vivekananda

Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy. — Swami Vivekananda

Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read. — Raymond Carver

I'm a lazy person, but if I'm not absent-mindedly doing something, I can't really relax. I can't just veg out. — Akira Toriyama

I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things. — Lech Walesa

To be thoroughly lazy is a tough job, but somebody has to do it. Industrious people build industry. Lazy people build civilization. — Kazuaki Tanahashi

Short Feeling Lazy Quotes

  • Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
  • Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. — Charlie McCarthy
  • When I'm tired, I rest. I say, 'I can't be a superwoman today.' — Jada Pinkett Smith
  • I think it's a pretty good day if I can get through it without lifting a finger. — Jane Kaczmarek
  • You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you. — Dale Carnegie
  • I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me. — H. P. Lovecraft
  • Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work. — Ann Rule
  • I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap. — Bob Hope
  • An overly comfortable life leads to apathy and lack of motivation. — Michael Easter
  • If you’ve never been lazy and done things the easy way, you’re probably not that smart. — Ryan Higa

Feeling Lazy Image Quotes

Feeling lazy quote Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

When You Are Lazy Quotes

When you go to church you are really listening-in to the secret wireless from out friends: that is why the enemy is so anxious to prevent us from going. He does it by playing on our conceit and laziness and intellectual snobbery. — C. S. Lewis

As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy. — Dennis Prager

Fetching objects for people who are too lazy to fetch them for themselves is never a pleasant task, particularly when the people are insulting you. — Daniel Handler

Feeling lazy quote Don't promise when you're happy. Don't reply when you're angry and don't decide when you're sad.
Don't promise when you're happy. Don't reply when you're angry and don't decide when you're sad.

Some people think that poor people are lazy. Actually, it takes a lot of work to survive when you are dirt-poor. — Muhammad Yunus

A lot of people are lazy when it comes to making up their own mind about something, you know? If you're labelled one way then they think thats how you are. It takes too much time to really look into things. — Rashad Evans

Self-trust is so important. When you launch on a story, make your neck loose, feel free, good-natured. And be lazy. Feel that you are going to throw it away. Try writing utterly unplanned stories and see what comes out. — Brenda Ueland

Feeling lazy quote How you make others feel about themselves says a lot about you.
How you make others feel about themselves says a lot about you.

Look at your work and it tells you how it is when you hold back or when you embrace. When you are lazy, your art is lazy; when you hold back, it holds back; when you hesitate, it stands there staring, hands in its pockets. But when you commit, it comes on like blazes. — David Bayles

When you are getting on in years (but not ill, of course), you get very sleepy at times, and the hours seem to pass like lazy cattle moving across a landscape. — James Hilton

The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at the keyboard and give it everything you have. — Chris Cleave

There is no pain worse than not achieving a dream when it is your fault. If God did not want you to have it, that is one thing. But if you do not get what you desire because you are lazy, there is no pain worse than that. — Will Smith

Lazy Day Quotes

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well. — Mark Twain

I was born to catch dragons in their dens And pick flowers To tell tales and laugh away the morning To drift and dream like a lazy stream And walk barefoot across sunshine days. — James Kavanaugh

Challenge yourself to be uncomfortable, push past the apathy and laziness and fear. Otherwise, the next day you’re going to have two things you don’t want to do, then three and four and five, and pretty soon, you can’t even get back to the first thing. — Tim Grover

Feeling lazy quote Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.

To rest for the sake of rest – to enjoy a lazy hour for its own sake – entails first accepting the fact that this is it: that your days aren’t progressing toward a future state of perfectly invulnerable happiness. — Oliver Burkeman

Do. The. Work. Every day, you have to do something you don’t want to do. Every day. Challenge yourself to be uncomfortable, push past the apathy and laziness and fear. — Tim Grover

People.. were poor not because they were stupid or lazy. They worked all day long, doing complex physical tasks. They were poor because the financial institution in the country did not help them widen their economic base. — Muhammad Yunus

Feeling lazy quote Stay close to people who feel like sunlight.
Stay close to people who feel like sunlight.

I love sleeping, I can sleep for 15 hours a day. — Smriti Mandhana

I think one of my favorite things to do is just lock myself up in a small room and listen to music and watch films for a day. Also I just like seeing my friends. We have pizza parties which means I get four friends round, we eat a pizza and we're really lazy and we play PlayStation. — Daniel Radcliffe

To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself. — Henry Miller

Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind. — Henry Ford

Being Lazy Quotes

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly. — Jim Rohn

Be not lax in celebrating. Be not lazy in the festive service of God. Be ablaze with enthusiasm. Let us be an alive, burning offering before the altar of God. — Hildegard of Bingen

The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it be said, their cowardice at the decisive moment of the struggle will give rise to tragic mishaps. — Frantz Fanon

Feeling lazy quote There comes a day when you realize turning the page is the best feeling in the world, because you re
There comes a day when you realize turning the page is the best feeling in the world, because you realize there is so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on.

Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind. — Douglas MacArthur

Being Negative and Lazy is a disease that leads to pain, hardship, depression, poor health and failure. Be pro active, and give a damn to achieve success! — Phil Heath

What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do — John Ruskin

Feeling lazy quote Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.
Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it. — Doug Coupland

We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds. - Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds. — Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it. — Douglas Coupland

I’m concerned about the fact there seems to be a war on the poor - that if you’re poor, somehow you’re shiftless and lazy. — John Kasich

Laziness Quotes

I think sometimes, when you're on top and all you do is win, win, win, win, win, you get lazy and lose focus. When you lose it opens your eyes and you get serious. There is always a time when it is good to lose, at the right time for you. — Usain Bolt

Anyone can practice. Young man can practice. Old man can practice. Very old man can practice. Man who is sick, he can practice. Man who doesn't have strength can practice. Except lazy people; lazy people can't practice Ashtanga yoga. — K. Pattabhi Jois

Our confidence in Christ does not make us lazy, negligent, or careless, but on the contrary it awakens us, urges us on, and makes us active in living righteous lives and doing good. There is no self-confidence to compare with this. — Huldrych Zwingli

Feeling lazy quote Some people feel the rain, others just get wet.
Some people feel the rain, others just get wet.

The ***** is indolent and lazy, and spends his money on frivolities, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent. — Che Guevara

The Bible is no lazy man's book! Much of its treasure, like the valuable minerals stored in the bowels of the earth, only yield up themselves to the diligent seeker. — Arthur W. Pink

Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy. - Tchaikovsky

Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy. — Tchaikovsky

Feeling lazy quote A King only bows down to his Queen.
A King only bows down to his Queen.

Waiting for God is not laziness. Waiting for God is not the abandonment of effort. Waiting for God means, first, activity under command; second, readiness for any new command that may come; third, the ability to do nothing until the command is given. — G. Campbell Morgan

Green little vaulter, in the sunny grass, Catching your heart up at the feel of June, Sole noise that's heard amidst the lazy noon, When ev'n the bees lag at the summoning brass. — Leigh Hunt

A person of riyaa (showing off) has three characteristics : He is lazy when alone, energetic when with others, and increases in his actions when he is praised while decreasing in them when he is criticized. — Ali ibn Abi Talib

Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. — Leo Tolstoy

Lazy People Quotes

I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living. — John Wayne

I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success. — Kobe Bryant

Colour disturbs people. I am confident in black, not in light. This dark side of life is attractive to me forever and from the beginning. I am a lazy designer when it comes to colour. — Yohji Yamamoto

Feeling lazy quote It's better to cry than to be angry; because anger hurts others, while tears flow silently through t
It's better to cry than to be angry; because anger hurts others, while tears flow silently through the soul and cleanses the heart.

I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you. — Kobe Bryant

Lazy people will eventually lose even their trousers. — Filipino Proverbs

People get too big to do the little things and then wonder why they don’t have the big results. — Isaac Mashman

Feeling lazy quote A person who feels appreciated will always do more than is expected.
A person who feels appreciated will always do more than is expected.

Would I employ you if you were obese? No I would not. You would give the wrong impression to the clients of my business. I need people to look energetic, professional and efficient. If you are obese you look lazy. — Sayings

Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life. — Abbas Kiarostami

If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy. — Terry Pratchett

You should be afraid of people who work harder than you. — Lisa Manoban

I Am Not Lazy Quotes

The Christian ministry is difficult, and we must not be lazy or trite. However, we often place burdens upon ourselves and make demands upon ourselves that are not according to the will of God. The more I know God and understand His perfect work on my behalf, the more I am able to rest. — Paul Washer

I am not lazy. I am on the amphetamine of the soul. I am, each day, typing out the God my typewriter believes in. — Anne Sexton

I am not the only one that condemns the idle; for once when I was going to give our minister a pretty long list of the sins of one of our people that he was asking after, I began with, "He's dreadfully lazy." "That's enough," said the old gentleman; " all sorts of sins are in that one. — Charles Spurgeon

Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. — Og Mandino

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. — Wanda Sykes

I was sort of lazy at school, but I realize I still have something to bring to the subject which is comforting. I feel I am not as stupid as I thought I was. — Michel Gondry

I am a terrible and lazy Christian. I do not believe that the Bible is the literal word of God. I just skip about a third of it. — Anne Lamott

Some men enjoy the constant strife Of days with work and worry rife, But that is not my dream of life: I think such men are crazy. For me, a life with worries few, A job of nothing much to do, Just pelf enough to see me through: I fear that I am lazy. — James Weldon Johnson

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More Feeling Lazy Quotes

If you don't feel challenged, it's because you're not doing enough. Ballet should never feel comfortable. Comfortable is lazy! If you're comfortable when you dance, you're not pushing yourself hard enough. 100 % is not enough. You have to give 200%. One tendu takes years of hard work and will never be perfect. Everything in ballet is a challenge. — George Balanchine

Self-discipline is a form of freedom. Freedom from laziness and lethargy, freedom from the expectations and demands of others, freedom from weakness and fear-and doubt. Self-discipline allows a pitcher to feel his individuality, his inner strength, his talent. He is master of, rather than a slave to, his thoughts and emotions. — Harvey Dorfman

Lazy people do a little work and feel like they should be winning. Winners work as hard as possible and still worry if they're being lazy. — Andrew Tate

I always feel like I have to prove myself as an actor, otherwise you get lazy if you're not slightly terrified that you're going to fail all the time. — Scarlett Johansson

If I don't feel confident about my body, I'm not going to sit at home and feel sorry for myself and not do something about it. It's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it. — Kim Kardashian

When you actively engage in gradually refining yourself, you retreat from your lazy ways of covering yourself or making excuses. Instead of feeling a persistent current of low-level shame, you move forward by using the creative possibilities of this moment, your current situation. — Epictetus

Like most people I can be lazy, so it's nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise, or when I'm outdoors. I like to hike, swim and run, and I love to play soccer. — Viggo Mortensen

It may be my rather puritanical upbringing at odds with my inborn laziness that makes me feel guilty at the end of the day, unless I am able to point at some achievement. But this need be no more impressive than cooking a meal or going for a long walk. — Ian Mckellen

The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed. — Soren Kierkegaard

There are times when I feel lazy and just want to stay in bed all day, but I know that working out is the best way to get those endorphins going, which will make me feel better emotionally and physically. — Heather Locklear

Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life. — Saint Augustine

I like to work. I don't like to have lulls. I feel like it makes me lazy and uncreative, and that's when your ideas become stagnant. — Sasha Grey

I start songs all the time. If I weren't so lazy, I would finish them. It's like when I have a deadline I have to. I always feel very lucky that I am forced to make records at certain times. If I was forced to make 2 records a year, I would write twice as many songs. I can't make myself finish something unless I am forced — Ben Folds

In my better moments, I think of apathy as purpose's sleep. In my worse moments, when I'm trying to fix it or get rid of it, I call it feeling lazy, depressed, or useless. — Dawna Markova

It is not the dream of what you're feeling laziness, if not, the sleep of exhaustion. — Edmondo De Amicis

I'd say a little over a year ago I started doing TM and that's really changed everything. Starting your day off with that and ending with that is pretty powerful. Twenty minutes, you just notice the difference. When I get lazy and don't get it in, I can feel a difference. I do it first thing when I wake up. — Jennifer Aniston

I played sports, so I understood quickly I shouldn't be eating fast food because it was slowing me down, making me feel lousy and lazy, and my instincts were not working as they should. — Wilmer Valderrama

You pigs, you. You rut like pigs, is all. You got the most in you, and you use the least. You hear me, you? Got a million in you and spend pennies. Got a genius in you and think crazies. Got a heart in you and feel empties. All a you. Every you...' [...] Take a war to make you spend. Take a jam to make you think. Take a challenge to make you great. Rest of the time you sit around lazy, you. Pigs, you! All right, God damn you! I challenge you, me. Die or live and be great. Blow yourselves to Christ gone or come and find me, Gully Foyle, and I make you men. I make you great. I give you the stars. — Alfred Bester

When I usually use a theremin during a set, it feels...it feels good, because I get to take a break from playing guitar, it's a little rest, really, and I know that it's only five or ten minutes until the show ends and I can get a drink. — Jon Spencer

Each of us has about 100,000 [kinesins] running around, right now, inside each one of your 100 trillion cells. So no matter how lazy you feel, you're not really intrinsically doing nothing. — David Bolinsky

I feel lazy when I'm not working. I learned all my business sense from my dad. He always believed in me, and I think the last thing he said to me before he passed away was, 'I know you're gonna be OK. I'm not worried about you'. — Kim Kardashian

After the first glass of vodka you can accept just about anything of life even your own mysteriousness you think it is nice that a box of matches is purple and brown and is called La Petite and comes from Sweden for they are words that you know and that is all you know words not their feelings or what they mean and you write because you know them not because you understand them because you don't you are stupid and lazy and will never be great but you do what you know because what else is there? — Frank O'Hara

Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way in my feelings. Sometimes I might be emotional, or sometimes I might drag on the track and be lazy. I just like to share the different states of existence of Kevin Gates with the rest of the world. — Kevin Gates

You have to get through periods of being blocked. Everybody has them. For me, they have everything to do with self-doubt. It's never a matter of laziness or inability. It's just a matter of believing that what I'm doing is worthwhile, that it matters.I just make myself work. I just make myself go to work, whether I feel like it or not. — David Small

Listening closely to songs these days, there's a lot of lazy songwriting where people get away with it. I don't want to be too critical about it. But I also feel like I wanted to say something a bit different from just being a musician and singing about yourself. Ultimately, that's not really interesting to me. Even when I was a kid, I was interested in observing people and maybe making my own stories. That kind of reflects in my music. — Steve Gunn

I have a feeling the writers who find screenwriting difficult are usually just not lazy enough for the job. They don't know how to stop before the task is done. I've always had a knack for leaving things unfinished, which makes screenwriting easier for me than most. — Jonathan Raymond

If you ever feel lazy or dull, take heart: you're the busiest, brightest thing on the planet. — David Eagleman

It's supposed to feel totally foreign [to play in a series], every single time. But, going back for another go at it is good, on the one hand, but it's also bad, on another hand, because your ideas dry up sometimes, and also you get lazy sometimes because you're around the same people. — Robert Pattinson

I think I'm a very lazy writer and by that I mean that I do not battle, I don't struggle too hard against it. If I have difficulties in the writing, I just go and do other things. I don't feel a compulsion to write. — Wole Soyinka

I was working on the book, but in a very subterranean kind of a fashion. And I think that giving yourself permission to respect that, without being lazy and not doing work when you could be doing work and just don't feel like it - that's a different balance that can be complicated to strike. — Emily Barton

I realized that acting was something I wasn't going to be lazy about. You feel good when you do it well. It is something that can grow in you. — Alison Elliott

I especially like Ron. Sometimes you feel so sorry for him because he's always getting stuff from his brothers. And he's got a fat, lazy rat. — Rupert Grint

My dad is really just lazy. He has nothing, I feel, to offer this world. — Sasha Grey

I'm very lazy, it's just that I love music and I love the things that I get to do. That's why I feel so blessed. — Pharrell Williams

If people are not safe, they will not make themselves vulnerable. If they feel too comfortable, they can become complacent or lose their curiosity. They can become intellectually lazy about what matters most. — Erica Brown

Actually, time and time again people always come back to my early, more innocent stuff, and say, "I kind of prefer that." I could go back to writing that and probably make more people happy, but it just doesn't feel like the right thing to do. I don't want to take the lazy route. — Herbert

Millions of small changes can be done, and through that, there can be a bigger impact because anybody can talk to another person. Anybody can educate somebody if they feel like their neighbor is stupid. It's more like "Educate thy neighbor, my friend." I think that enthusiasm, and not giving into lazy-minded cynicism, is where the potential and hope is. — Eugene Hutz

I don't like looking at awards everyday because I feel like they can make you lazy. So, I give them to my Mom and let her look at it everyday. They are symbols of the hard work she put into me. Her sacrifices allowed me and my team to win those awards. But I don't look at any awards everyday. — Tyra Banks

Parents must begin to discover their children as individuals of developing tastes and views and so help them be, and see, themselves as thinking, feeling people. It is far too easy for a middle-years child to absorb an over-simplified picture of himself as a sloppy, unreliable, careless, irresponsible, lazy creature and not much more--an attitude toward himself he will carry far beyond these years. — Dorothy H Cohen

Some people maybe try to justify their laziness. You take out what you put in and the more I go to church and the more I turn myself over to the process of believing in Jesus, and to listening to his word and have him guide my hand I feel the pressure's off me. — Sylvester Stallone

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