Laziness Quotes
Laziness is disinclination to activity or exertion despite having the ability to act or to exert oneself. Some people are real go getters, while others are less ambitious. Nobody wants an unmotivated, lazy person on their team.
So whether you are looking for a little motivation to help you get over laziness, or you are trying to help someone else fight their own laziness. You have come to the right place.
Read through our collection of laziness quotes and find the inspiration you need to kick against laziness, procrastination and the habit of making excuses.
60 Quotes About Laziness & Making Excuses
“When you are willing to replace mundane excuses with hard work and your laziness with determination, nothing can prevent you from succeeding.” – Prem Jagyasi
Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man. – Jimmy Lyons
The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves. – Benjamin Whichcote
I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it. – Bill Gates
You don’t get lucky while sitting in the sofa with arms crossed doing nothing. You can be lucky only when you are prepared. – Nesta Jojoe Erskine
Curiosity, rationalization, and laziness are no match against courage, self-control, and mental toughness. – John Bytheway
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
“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
Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it’s only kept a secret from the person who fails. – Robert Half
“You will find that the more successful the individual, the less inclined he is to make excuses.” – David Joseph Schwartz
Laziness is my biggest pet peeve of all time. Get up, make a plan, do the work, and love yourself, people – Dove Cameron
Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree. – Ambrose Bierce
Sometimes, being lazy is much favorable than labouring without a purpose. – Vishal Ostwal
The lazy man is usually an ideal man, for he lives on theory, sleeps on hope, and dies in despair. – J. W Croker
The only time a lazy man ever succeeds is when he tries to do nothing. – Evan Esar
Run away from laziness; work hard. Touch intuition and listen to the heart, not marketing directors. Dream. – Alber Elbaz
The lazy will always attribute genius to some ‘inspiration’ that comes for mere waiting. – Will Durant
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. – Anne Frank
“It is easier to move from failure to success than from excuses to success.” – John C. Maxwell
“I attribute my success to this:—I never gave or took an excuse.” – Florence Nightingale
Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy. – Tchaikovsky
“No one ever excused his way to success.” – Dave Del Dotto
God does not like lazy people, He likes those who work – Sunday Adelaja
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
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. – Benjamin Franklin
Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it’s only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly. – Elizabeth Hurley
Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other’s work. – Ann Rule
The lazy man claims he is too heavy for light work and too light for heavy work. – Evan Esar
Stop sleeping, Get to work! You will have much time to sleep when you die. – Michael Bassey Johnson
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness, there is also the success of others. Jules – Renard
“Essentially there are two actions in life: Performance and excuses. Make a decision as to which he will accept from yourself.” – Steven Brown
Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence. – James Cash Penney
“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
To the lazy man the world appears bereft of all blessings; if poor, he has no friends; if rich, he has no ambition, he aims at nothing, and generally hits his mark. – James Ellis
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
Fight your fear, your laziness, your ignorance before you worry about fighting the competition. – Amit Kalantri
The most basic human impulse is toward entropy and laziness. The less we have to do to grow spiritually, the more likely we are to do it. – Alexandra Fuller
Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him. – Benjamin Franklin
Ignorance is a matter of laziness, indifference, and apathy. – Tom Tancredo
You are only as lazy or lacking in willpower as you think you are.- Ken Christian
When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom. – Walter Annenberg
If you wait for the mango fruits to fall, you’d be wasting your time while others are learning how to climb the tree – Michael Bassey Johnson
“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 trouble with the world is that laziness is seldom curable and never fatal. – Evan Esar
“Excuses destroy success every time.” – Jon Taffer
Kill the darlings in your life. Laziness, wishful thinking, procrastination, kill them – Bangambiki Habyarimana
Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things. – Robert A. Heinlein
A lazy man would have every day a holiday. – Ahmed Vesik
I’ve heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance? – Ronald Reagan
“Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn
You can’t teach people to be lazy – either they have it, or they don’t. – Dagwood Bumstead
It’s a disease of critics that once they’ve labeled someone, it’s very hard to change their perspective. It’s laziness. – Michael Haneke
I don’t like laziness or cutting corners. – Victoria Beckham
There is a great volcano sleeping in every laziness! – Mehmet Murat ildan
You make name for yourself when you overcome pain, weakness, laziness and ignorance – Sunday Adelaja
I never work just to work. It’s some combination of laziness and self-respect. – Harold Ramis
If there’s an easier, more efficient way to do something, trust a lazy person to find it. – Marty Rubin
“Successful people don’t use the obstacles of time, education, and money as excuses…they use them as leverage to get help.” – Richie Norton
Laziness will stop your progress in your spiritual practice. – Renuka Singh
“You can have excuses or you can have success; you can’t have both.” – Jen Sincero