Profoundly inspirational lazy quotes will encourage growth in life, make you wiser and broaden your perspective.
Famous Lazy Quotes
Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy. Tchaikovsky
You will find that the more successful the individual, the less inclined he is to make excuses. David Joseph Schwartz
Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Benjamin Franklin
No one ever excused his way to success. Dave Del Dotto
Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do. Elbert Hubbard
Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses in your life; you realize everything that happens in life is a result of the previous choice you’ve made and start making new choices to change your life. Roy T. Bennett
Man ought not, like a mushroom, to spring up and rot upon the ground that nourished him, leaving no trace of life like energy! Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Excuses destroy success every time. Jon Taffer
Of all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes it with so silent, yet so baneful, a tooth, as indolence. Thomas Jefferson
You can have excuses or you can have success; you can’t have both. Jen Sincero
The pillow is that devil thing to give us dreams at night so we don’t have to follow our real ones in the day. The blanket is that ghost who gives us a glimpse of what it’s like to be dead peaceful, but too early. So run away. Turn left. Shiver in the arctic. Burn in the Sahara. Sweat in a subway. Anything, but the sheets. Karl Kristian Flores
Uncomplicate it. Don’t make excuses. Some of life’s biggest heartaches come from missed opportunities and lame excuses. Don’t miss out on what could be the best chapter in your life because you’re too busy rereading the last one. Kandi Steiner
Kill the darlings in your life. Laziness, wishful thinking, procrastination; kill them. Bangambiki Habyarimana
You can have the results you want, or you can have excuses. You can’t have both. Clyde Lee Dennis
Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man. Jimmy Lyons
Success is not as easy as winners make it look nor as hard as losers make it sound. Orrin Woodward
Time is a created thing. To say, I don’t have time, is to say, I don’t want to. Lao Tzu
I attribute my success to this I never gave or took an excuse. Florence Nightingale
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state. We must be doing something to be happy. William Hazlitt
Essentially there are two actions in life Performance and excuses. Make a decision as to which he will accept from yourself. Steven Brown
Laziness is a luxurious mindset that I cannot afford to own. Nakia R. Laushaul
Someone may have all the technical knowledge, scientific intellect and business know how but when he she decides to choose laziness, excuses, procrastination, complaining and other bad attitudes, his her relevance is meaningless. Israelmore Ayivor
The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their intellectual powers and aptitudes as their curiosity, their energy, their fullest use of their potentialities. Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. Sydney J. Harris
When you are willing to replace mundane excuses with hard work and your laziness with determination, nothing can prevent you from succeeding. Prem Jagyasi
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A year from now you may wish you had started today. Karen Lamb
Successful people don’t use the obstacles of time, education, and money as excuses they use them as leverage to get help. Richie Norton
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. Pablo Picasso
It is easier to move from failure to success than from excuses to success. John C. Maxwell
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and the goal of a good intention was never reached through its opposite, laziness. Miguel de Cervantes
Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back. Harvey Mackay
We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. Nelson Mandela
The trouble is, you think you have time. Buddha
We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas A. Edison
There’s only one thing more precious than our time and that’s who we spend it on. Leo Christopher
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. Abraham Lincoln
You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it. Charles Brixton
Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence. James Cash Penney
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. Leo Tolstoy
Idle hands are the devil’s playthings. Benjamin Franklin
If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of. Bruce Lee
Luck never brings luxury to the lazy. Amit Kalantri
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst. William Penn
There is a great volcano sleeping in every laziness! Mehmet Murat ildan
Time slips away like grains of sand never to return again. Robin Sharma
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Lazy begets poverty every time! Mark Dawson
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Steve Jobs
One must avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness. Horace
Time is a created thing. To say, I don’t have time, is to say, ‘I don’t want to. Lao Tzu
Pessimism is a primary source of passivity. Barbara W. Tuchman
Better three hours too soon than one minute too late. William Shakespeare
With work misery is relieved, with laziness misery is multiplied. Abhijit Naskar
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. Andy Warhol
One excuse, could destroy a multitude of chances. Anthony Liccione
There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want. Bill Watterson
Laziness demands misery. Bryant McGill
Procrastination is not Laziness, I tell him. It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself. Julia Cameron
Where there is less pain, there is also less pay. Auliq Ice
You may delay, but time will not. Benjamin Franklin
I was trained to turn loneliness into laziness. Bill Callahan
Procrastinate now, don’t put it off. Ellen DeGeneres
Don’t put off until tomorrow what can be done today. Benjamin Franklin
I can’t think about that right now. If I do, I’ll go crazy. I’ll think about that tomorrow. Margaret Mitchell
Laziness builds walls and fences that keep the mind under control. Auliq Ice
It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. Leonardo da Vinci
Laziness is a devastating disease. K.P. Kelly
If it weren’t for the last minute, nothing would get done. Rita Mae Brown
Lazy people live lonely lives. Habeeb Akande
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. Abraham Lincoln
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Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him. Charles Dickens
A year from now you may wish you had started today. Karen Lamb
Someday is not a day of the week. Janet Dailey
Plan to be spontaneous tomorrow. Steven Wright
Time slips away like grains of sand never to return again. Robin Sharma
My mother always told me I wouldn’t amount to anything because I procrastinate. I said, Just wait. Judy Tenuta
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. Robert Frost
Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy. Tchaikovsky
Reclined legs don’t get fed, they get limp like boiled spaghetti. Walk it out! T.F. Hodge
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
Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable. Kim Hubbard
Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do. Elbert Hubbard
The shortest distance from point A to point B is a straight line. But because going from point A to point A is even shorter, it’s never not rush hour. Craig D. Lounsbrough
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him. Benjamin Franklin
Hard work spotlights the character of people some turn up their sleeves; some turn up their noses; some don’t turn up at all. Sam Ewing
We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas A. Edison
Too many people itch for what they want without scratching for it. Thomas Taylor
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Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. Robert Heinlein
The trouble with the world is that laziness is seldom curable and never fatal. Evan Esar
I don’t think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. Agatha Christie
You can’t teach people to be lazy. Either they have it or they don’t. Dagwood Bumstead
Laziness is the first step towards efficiency. Patrick Bennett
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. Jules Renard
I’ve heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance? Ronald Reagan
The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked. Napolean Hill
If you are choosing laziness, excuses and other bad habits to your goal, then your relevance is meaningless. Santosh Kumar
Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains. Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
Now I’m a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work. Martin Fowler
My only hobby is laziness, which naturally rules out all others. Granni Nazzano
Laziness will stop your progress in your spiritual practice. Renuka Singh
Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something. Luc de Clapiers
The lazy will always attribute genius to some inspiration that comes for mere waiting. Will Durant
Stop sleeping, Get to work! You will have much time to sleep when you die. Michael Bassey Johnson
Laziness is when you accede to the misconception that work is unnecessary. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
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. Alfred Bester
Laziness is always your fault. It is the sign that a man has persevered in uselessness for too long. Idries Shah
We wake up to be alive and to revive our lives; we don’t wake up to keep sleeping! We wake up not just to be alive, but also to keep our works alive and mind the business of the day! When you wake up, revive your work! Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Lazy people live lonely lives. Habeeb Akande
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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
His was not a lazy trustfulness that hoped, and did no more. Charles Dickens
The greatest amount of wasted time is the not getting started. Dawson Trotman
Technology never makes someone lazy. It sometimes reveals someone’s laziness. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Success is not an easy thing! Success is allergic to laziness! However, it is amenable to intelligence and diligence. Enock Maregesi
Physical laziness is bad but intellectual laziness is intolerable. Wayne Gerard Trotman
Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work. Stephen King
I was trained to turn loneliness into laziness. Bill Callahan
Make it your aim today to be a champion in the making. You are not going to be hoisted up on the podium this afternoon, but inch by inch, small but meaningful decision multiplied will get you to where you want to be and beyond. Don’t you dare despise small beginnings. Chris J. Gregas
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. Philip Stanhope
I’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness. Denzel Washington
Not doing things you can do is the whole point of laziness. Not doing something you can’t do is just sensible. Sarah Rees Brennan
When you are willing to replace mundane excuses with hard work and your laziness with determination, nothing can prevent you from succeeding. Dr Prem Jagyasi
My ambition is handicapped by laziness. Charles Bukowski
Run away from laziness; work hard. Touch intuition and listen to the heart, not marketing directors. Dream. Alber Elbaz
The only time a lazy man ever succeeds is when he tries to do nothing. Evan Esar
Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back. Harvey Mackay
There’s an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort. John Steinbeck
You are only as lazy or lacking in willpower as you think you are. Ken Christian
I’m like the laziest person who ever lived. It’s amazing to me that I even sit up. Fran Lebowitz
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You can have the results you want, or you can have excuses. You can’t have both. Clyde Lee Dennis
I’m not going to say it’s laziness, but I’m not a grand creator of new characters. Lore Segal
We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it? Buddha
Laziness works. And the simple way to incorporate its health benefits into your life is simply to take a nap. Tom Hodgkinson
If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of. Bruce Lee
Hope you enjoy reading this collection of powerful lazy quotes and please let me know in the comment section which one will become your daily mantra.
