98 Lazy Man Quotes

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Famous Lazy Man Quotes

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

Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it. — Walter Chrysler

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

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. — Robert A. Heinlein

Laziness is the mother of all evils. — Sophocles

Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work. — Ann Rule

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

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

Blame is a lazy man's wages. — Danish proverb

The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves. — W. C. Fields

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

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

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

If you’ve never been lazy and done things the easy way, you’re probably not that smart. — Ryan Higa

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

Short Lazy Man Quotes

  • People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy. — Bob Hope
  • 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
  • Rules are invented for lazy people who don't want to think for themselves. — Mary Quant
  • Jobs are for lazy people who don’t want to invest in themselves. — Damon Dash
  • Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. — Charlie McCarthy
  • The sleepy like to make excuses. — Benedict of Nursia
  • Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. — Anne Frank
  • Sometimes the obvious product is the right one. Other times it’s the lazy one. — Sam Bankman-Fried
  • There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking. — Joshua Reynolds

Lazy Man Image Quotes

Lazy man quote Do not correct a fool or he will hate you. Correct a wise man and he will appreciate you.
Do not correct a fool or he will hate you. Correct a wise man and he will appreciate you.

Lazy Attitude Quotes

I don't blame the people for the fact that so many movies are bad. I think there's a corrupt, perverted, lazy and sloppy attitude that's pervasive in the movie business. The whole entertainment business is kind of crumbling around us. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude. — Joyce Meyer

Am I Getting Lazy? Am I Too Busy? Am I Becoming Arrogant? Am I Getting Timid? If you answer 'yes' to any one of these questions, that's your warning to Kick that attitude! — Roger Von Oech

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

Everything depends on attitude. We are ambitious or lazy, enthusiastic or dull, loyal or undependable, according to our attitude. — Sterling W Sill

I knew I was breaking about a dozen laws but I guess I had different attitudes to stuff like that since the war. Laws were for the stupid the immature the irresponsible. The inflexible and the narrow-minded. The prejudiced. The obsessive. The lazy and careless and selfish and spoilt. The violent. — John Marsden

If we don't progress, we backslide into bad habits, laziness and poor attitude. — Dan Gable

Lazy man quote The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute. The man who does not ask, is a fool for life.
The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute. The man who does not ask, is a fool for life.

I’m a big believer in starting with high standards and raising them. We make progress only when we push ourselves to the highest level. If we don’t progress, we backslide into bad habits, laziness and poor attitude. — Dan Gable

When you're in a competitive environment, always give out the impression that you don't care. It makes people want you more. If you act desperate, it's over. I think a passive attitude is helpful. It comes naturally because I'm lazy. — Diablo Cody

Lazy People Quotes

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

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

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

Lazy man quote Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.
Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

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

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 man quote A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything.
A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything.

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

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

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

Laziness 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

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

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

Lazy man quote The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise man grows it under his feet.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise man grows it under his feet.

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

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

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

Lazy man quote Words of comfort skillfully administered are the oldest therapy known to man.
Words of comfort skillfully administered are the oldest therapy known to man.

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

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

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

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

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

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More Lazy Man Quotes

A man too busy to take care of his health is like a farmer too lazy to plant his field. — Icelandic Proverbs

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. — Robin Williams

Lazy man quote No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. — Albert Einstein

We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing — Thucydides

It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control. — Camryn Manheim

The average man doesn't wish to be told that it is a bull or a bear market. What he desires is to be told specifically which particular stock to buy or sell. He wants to get something for nothing. He does not wish to work. He doesn't even wish to have to think. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore

The man of leadership caliber will work while others waste time, study while others sleep, pray while others play. There will be no place for loose or lazy habits in word or thought, deed or dress. He will observe a soldierly discipline, diet and deportment, so that he may wage a good warfare. — J. Oswald Sanders

Rage or fear... It oscillates. Rage I need to motivate me to try things that I can't ordinarily do - as I'm a lazy man. Fear - to keep pushing harder so we don't lose what we've accomplished. — David Chang

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

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable. — Natalie Clifford Barney

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness. — Mark Kennedy

The calm man is not the man who is dull. You must not mistake Sattva for dullness or laziness. The calm man is the one who has control over the mind waves. Activity is the manifestation of inferior strength, calmness, of the superior. — Swami Vivekananda

I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef. — Vince Cable

Good luck is a lazy man's estimate of a worker's success. — Unknown

Slovenliness is a lazy and beastly negligence of a man's own person, whereby he becomes so sordid as to be offensive to those about him. — Theophrastus

Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men! — Mary Boykin Chesnut

Man like every other animal is by nature indolent. If nothing spurs him on, then he will hardly think, and will behave from habit like an automaton. — Albert Einstein

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it. — John Lubbock

Whenever there is hard work to be done, I assign it to the laziest man as he is sure to find an easy way of doing it. Be lazy, think crazy. — Bill Gates

Procrastination is a lazy man's apology. — Chinua Achebe

The lazy man aims at nothing, and generally hits it. — James Ellis

The lazy man claims he is too heavy for light work and too light for heavy work. — Evan Esar

Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in the practice. It does take work and it ain't easy - but man, the rewards! — Susan Powter

There is also a schedule to fashion - the deadline is always set. So maybe the fashion business is a good business for me in that way because I'm basically lazy, man. — Yohji Yamamoto

Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth. — Solomon

Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful. — William Makepeace Thackeray

I like the word "indolence." It makes my laziness seem classy. — Bernard Williams

Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death. — Yiddish Proverbs

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

Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious. — William Shatner

The idea of passing one's whole life in moral idleness, and having one's hardest work and duty done by another-whether God or man-is most revolting to us, as it is most degrading to human dignity. — H. P. Blavatsky

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest. — Albert Einstein

Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there wasn't anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of a success than an angleworm is — Josh Billings

The only time a lazy man ever succeeds is when he tries to do nothing. — Evan Esar

The play of sunlight is amusement enough for a lazy man. — Walter J. Phillips

Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game's best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man, and its most loved manager, Casey Stengel, spoke gibberish. In this lazy sport, only the pitcher pours sweat. Then he takes three days off. — Thomas Boswell

No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time is worth nothing. — Washington Irving

They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men and bondage have taught them: improvidence and intemperance and evasion-not laziness: evasion: of what white men had set them to, not for their aggrandizement or even comfort but his own. — William Faulkner

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