110 Lazy People Quotes

Following is our list of lazy people quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about being lazy.

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Famous Lazy People Quotes

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

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

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

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

People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy. — Bob Hope

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

Laziness is the mother of all evils. — Sophocles

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

Rules are invented for lazy people who don't want to think for themselves. — Mary Quant

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

Jobs are for lazy people who don’t want to invest in themselves. — Damon Dash

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

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

Short Lazy People Quotes

  • The sleepy like to make excuses. — Benedict of Nursia
  • Blame is a lazy man's wages. — Danish proverb
  • People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them. — Tony Robbins
  • Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. — Anne Frank
  • I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy. — Tom Petty
  • 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
  • Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. — Charlie McCarthy
  • The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves. — W. C. Fields
  • Sometimes the obvious product is the right one. Other times it’s the lazy one. — Sam Bankman-Fried

Lazy People Image Quotes

Lazy people quote You can't change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you r
You can't change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.

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

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

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

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

Lazy people quote There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's book and write your ow
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's book and write your own.

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 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

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

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

Being Lazy Quotes

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

Lazy people quote Maturity is learning to walk away from people and situation that threaten your peace of mind, self r
Maturity is learning to walk away from people and situation that threaten your peace of mind, self respect, values, morals and self worth.

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

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

Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them - their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

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

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

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

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

Feeling Lazy Quotes

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

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

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More 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

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

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

We're only a couple of hundreds of years into understanding that epilepsy is a neurological disease and not a demonic possession. We're only about 50 years into understanding that certain types of learning disabilities are micro malformations in the cortex in people with dyslexia and not laziness or lack of motivation. The vast majority of these factoids presented in the book are 10, 20 years old, and all that's gonna happen is we're gonna learn more and more of that stuff. And what we're goin — Robert M. Sapolsky

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

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 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

For lazy people it is always party time — Greek Proverbs

Lazy people can't practice Ashtanga Yoga — K. Pattabhi Jois

Drinking coffee is kinda my major hobby... the great benefit of being an actor is you have all this spare time. My ideal is just hanging out with people - I think I am innately lazy. — Craig Parker

Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it. — Donna Leon

People are lazy, and nobody wants to turn their phone to the side. I know I have my phone locked, so if I have to turn something to the side, I have to turn that lock off. — Jake Paul

People who are lazy, careless, doubtful-minded or arrogant need not expect God to reveal His secret or covenant to them. — Watchman Nee

Many people are cruising through life doing precisely zero hours of deliberate practice. — Angela Duckworth

The highly motivated people in society are the ones causing all the trouble. It's not the lazy unmotivated folks sitting in front of a TV eating potato chips who bother anyone. — George Carlin

People are generally resistant to teaching and training because it requires effort. This clashes with the natural wiring of human adults: We are fundamentally lazy. — B. J. Fogg

I always believe that ultimately, if people are paying attention, then we get good government and good leadership. And when we get lazy, as a democracy and civically start taking shortcuts, then it results in bad government and politics. — Barack Obama

If you're the biggest DJ in the world, you're in a position where you can play stuff that people don't know and blow people's minds. But if you just chose to play stuff they know just to get a reaction, that's just being lazy. — John Digweed

Why are people so afraid? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others. We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a Personal God, a Savior or a Prophet to do everything for us. — Swami Vivekananda

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. I love the parts I love so much, but I find a lot of it just appalling. When a right-wing person quotes a passage in order to attack and stigmatize another person--or group of people--I just roll my eyes. — Anne Lamott

Evil people hate the light because it reveals themselves to themselves. ... They will destroy the light, the goodness, the love in order to avoid the pain of self-awareness. ... [E]vil is laziness carried to its ultimate, extraordinary extreme. — M. Scott Peck

Work is the law of the modern world, which has no place for lazy people. — Mihai Eminescu

People say pot-smokers are lazy. I disagree; I'm a multitasking pot-smoker: just the other day I was walking down the street, I was putting eyedrops in my eyes, I was talking on my cell phone, and I was getting hit by a car. — Doug Benson

I just bought a Chihuahua. It's the dog for lazy people. You don't have to walk it. Just hold it out the window and squeeze. — Anthony Ward Clark

Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains — Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet

It's hard to do it because you gotta look people in the eye and tell 'em they're irresponsible and lazy. And who's gonna wanna do that? Because that's what poverty is, ladies and gentlemen. In this country, you can succeed if you get educated and work hard. Period. Period. — Bill O'Reilly

I've realised that when I don't play people who are complex I get very, very bored, and then lazy, and end up being rubbish. — Sienna Miller

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