14 Quotes Tagged: lazy

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How dare you call me lazy? I'd come up with a scathing retort but, meh, I'm just not motivated.

Humankind above all is lazy.

Harriet Beecher Stowe, American abolitionist and author (1811–1896)

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The last shall not become the first if the last is lagging behind.

"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."

If you wait for the mango fruits to fall, you'd be wasting your time while others are learning how to climb the tree

Assumptions are quick exits for lazy minds that like to graze out in the fields without bother.

When you're working, some people relax and wait for the invisible right time, but when they see your fortune, they wake up and strategize an envious attack.

You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it's an art form that benefits everyone.

"Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself."

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.

but I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment.

I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job because he will find an easy way to do it.

Don't wait for people to dress your bed for you, do it yourself and you'll be glad to sleep and feel relaxed.

I like being brave well enough, but I will be a lazy coward again if you think that would be better.