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• Laziness: An inclination not to do work or engage in activities. Oxford Dictionary
• Laziness: The quality of being unwilling to work or use energy; idleness. Merriam Webster
• Sloth: Reluctance to work or make an effort; laziness. Oxford Dictionary
• Indolence: Avoidance of activity or exertion; laziness. Oxford Dictionary
• Sloth means awakening with nothing to do and then doing nothing about it. Tim Proust
• Procrastination,  Lethargy,  Apathy and indifference,   Hard work,  Diligence,  Effort,  Busyness,  Efficiency

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Laziness is regarded as one of the seven deadly sins

• The Bible and several other self-help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful… or fun for that matter. Dave Mustaine
• The avenues in my neighborhood are Pride, Covetousness and Lust; the cross streets are Anger, Gluttony, Envy and Sloth. I live over on Sloth, and the style on our street is to avoid the other thoroughfares. John Chancellor
• Sloth is the sin which believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, loves nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and only remains alive because there is nothing it would die for. Dorothy Sayers
• Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed. Reid Hoffman
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Some argue that laziness is the beginning of vice …

• Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time. Renata Adler
• Idleness is the beginning of all vices. Proverb
• There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: impatience and laziness. Franz Kafka
• …so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others. Eleanor Roosevelt
• Sloth and Silence are a Fool’s Virtues. Benjamin Franklin
• The devil tempts all other men, but slothful men tempt the devil. Proverb
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… while others disagree

• It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
• Laziness prevents more crimes than morality. Abraham Miller
• All man’s troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room. Blaise Pascal

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Laziness can come at a heavy price …

• Don’t yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments. Horace
• A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he starts out, have condemned himself to second- rate thoughts, and to second-rate friends. Cyril Connolly
• Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise. Amos Bronson Alcott
• I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive. Lord Chesterfield

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Laziness leads to lethargy and loss of self confidence

• Valor, gradually overpowered by the delicious poison of sloth, grows torpid. Caius Silius Italicus
• It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility. Samuel Johnson
• Laziness erodes a person of his enthusiasm and energy. As a result, the person loses all opportunities and finally becomes dejected and frustrated. The worst thing is that he stops believing in himself. Sam Veda
• Lethargy,  Self-confidence

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Laziness can lead to decay and corruption

• Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright. Benjamin Franklin
• Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay. Richard Weaver
• Expect poison from standing water. William Blake
• Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves. Ovid

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Laziness makes things hard

• Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises 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
• The time will come when winter will ask you what you were doing all summer. Henry Clay

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Laziness blocks opportunity

• Laziness begets nothing but failures and lost opportunities. Rig Veda
• We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas A. Edison
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Laziness blocks accomplishment and getting what you want

• Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish. Miguel de Cervantes
• The sleeping fox catches no poultry. Benjamin Franklin
• Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. Jules Renard
• Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains. The more one has to do, the more he is able to accomplish.  Thomas Buxton
• Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it’s only kept a secret from the person who fails. Robert Half
• The truly slothful achieve more of less than they did yesterday. Hannah Crowley
• If you’re coasting, you’re either losing momentum or else you’re headed downhill. Joan Welsh

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Laziness blocks happiness and satisfaction

• Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Mahatma Gandhi
• Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. Anne Frank
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Laziness blocks inspiration

• Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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Laziness effects your ability to earn a good living

• Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do. Elbert Hubbard
• Sloth is the key to poverty. Proverb
• Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him. Benjamin Franklin
• Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth. Proverbs 10:4
• The sluggard does not plow after the season, so he begs during the harvest and has nothing. Proverbs 20:4
• If a man will not work, he shall not eat. Bible

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Laziness feels good now but ends in repentance

• Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a seed shut up in the pod, and art without practice is nothing. Pietro Aretino
• Hard work has a future payoff. Laziness pays off now.

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Laziness can lead to a feeling of mental unease

• Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something. Marquis De Vauvenargues
• The lazy are always wanting to do something. Vauvenargues

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Laziness is the parent of procrastination

• For the diligent a week has seven days, for the slothful seven tomorrows. Polish Proverb
• The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after. John Lyly
• There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards; they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence. Maria Edgeworth
• Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man. Jimmy Lyons
• How soon ‘not now’ becomes ‘never’. Martin Luther
• What will be done at anytime will be done at no time. Thomas Fuller
• The lazier a man is, the more he plans to do tomorrow. Norwegian Proverb
• Towards evening the lazy person begins to get busy. German Proverb
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Laziness is the result of impotent goals

• People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals – that is, goals that do not inspire them. Tony Robbins
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Laziness is a kind of negation of the present moment

• Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledges its relation to the future but ignores its relation to the past; neither the lazy nor the impatient man, that is, accepts the present instant in its full reality and so cannot love his neighbor completely. W.H. Auden
• There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards; they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence. Maria Edgeworth
• Live in the present

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Our minds can be just as lazy as our bodies

• There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking. Joshua Reynolds
• Our minds are as much given to laziness as our bodies. La Rochefoucauld
• A great deal of laziness of mind is called liberty of opinion.
• 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
• If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom. Cyril Connolly
• Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. Charles Dickens
• Don’t hope for a life without problems. An easy life results in a judgmental and lazy mind. Kyong Ho

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Time given to dedicated thinking is not laziness …

• Thinking is the very essence of, and the most difficult thing to do in, business and in life. Empire builders spend hour-after-hour on mental work… while others party. If you’re not consciously aware of putting forth the effort to exert self-guided integrated thinking…then you’re giving in to laziness and no longer control your life. David Kekich
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… although passive thinking can be lazy

• 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

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Being overly busy can actually be a form of mental laziness

• The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy man does not get much further. Sir Heneage Ogilvie
• Being busy can actually be a form of mental laziness …
• Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of laziness—lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Timothy Ferriss
• The idlest minds are those that inhabit the busiest bodies. Bauvard
• Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality; and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity. Robert Louis Stevenson
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To stagnate in your comfort zone is a kind of laziness

• In any given moment, a man’s growth is optimized if he leans just beyond his edge, his capacity, his fear. He should not be too lazy, happily stagnating in the zone of security and comfort. Nor should he push far beyond his edge, stressing himself unnecessarily, unable to metabolize his experience. He should lean just slightly beyond the edge of fear and discomfort. Constantly. In everything he does. David Deida
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Apathy is a kind of laziness

• In my better moments, I think of apathy as purpose’s sleep. In my worse moments, when I’m trying to fix it or get rid of it, I call it feeling lazy, depressed, or useless. Dawna Markova
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Blame is a kind of laziness

• Blame is just a lazy person’s way of making sense of chaos. Douglas Coupland
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Compromise is a kind of laziness

• Compromise is a word found only in the vocabulary of those who have no will to fight—the lazy, the cunning, the cowardly—for they consider themselves defeated before they start. Josemaria Escriva
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Praise can be a kind of laziness

• Giving praise is the lazy man’s way of providing help and support to the hard at work. Walter Braithwaite

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Modesty can be a kind of laziness

• Modesty is an excuse for sloppiness, laziness, self-indulgence; small ambitions evoke small efforts. Stephen Vizinczey
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Being a specialist can be a kind of laziness

• Intellectually curious men become generalists. Intellectually lazy men settle for being specialists. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
• Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom. John Kenneth Galbraith
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Transcend laziness through self-discipline

• Self-discipline is a form of freedom. Freedom from laziness and lethargy, freedom from the expectations and demands of others, freedom from weakness and fear-and doubt. Self- discipline allows a pitcher to feel his individuality, his inner strength, his talent. He is master of, rather than a slave to, his thoughts and emotions.  H.A. Dorfman
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Transcend laziness by appreciating the value of time

• 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. Lord Chesterfield
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Transcend laziness by embracing hard work

• Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own. Elizabeth Smart
• Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise. Samuel Johnson
• Hard work,  Diligence,  Effort

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Some speak of laziness in a more favorable light

• Hard work has a future payoff. Laziness pays off now.
• Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. Jules Renard
• Part of the true luxury of “earned laziness” are the braggin rights that come along with being purposefully and publicly lazy. It is a badge of distinction, an emblem of success, without having to say too much about it. It labels us, affords us kudos, and raises our profile in the “pecking order” of our fellow troglodytes. It says to others, “See, I’ve done so well that I can afford to do nothing at all whenever I so choose!  Al Gini
• It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
• Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. Sam Keen
• The lazy man gets round the sun as quickly as the busy one. t. Wombat
• The slothful play their idle games while the poor must toil and pay. Vivian R Elder
• We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork. Milton Friedman

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Laziness can feel good

• Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
• That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing. Pliny the Younger (62 AD – 114 AD)
• You can’t imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it! Leo Nikolaevich

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Laziness can lead to invention and progress

• 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
• I don’t think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness – to save oneself trouble. Agatha Christie
• Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. Robert A. Heinlein
• Progress,  Inventiveness

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Laziness can lead to efficiency

• Efficiency is intelligent laziness. David Dunham
• Laziness is the mother of efficiency. Marian Propp
• 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 P. Chrysler
• Laziness is the first step towards efficiency. Patrick Bennett
• If you have a difficult task, give it to someone lazy, that person will find an easier way to do it.
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Laziness after work is wonderful and necessary

• Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body. Grenville Kleiser
• When we rest, we think we’re supposed to use that time productively. Nonsense. Complete downtime (relaxing, enjoying, just being) is the most productive thing we can do to charge our batteries. Anthony Lambert

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• All I’m saying is why blame it on being lazy when you can blame it on being old?
• Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. Charlie McCarthy
• Efficiency is a highly developed form of laziness.
• From the ages of 8-18, me and my family moved around a lot. Mostly we would just stretch, but occasionally one of us would actually get up to go to the fridge. Jarod Kintz
• Hard work has a future payoff. Laziness pays off now.
• He’s so lazy he wouldn’t work in a pie factory.
• Hoping to get a head start on the next day, I eat breakfast the night before. That way I can sleep in until two in the afternoon. Jarod Kintz
• I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark. Samuel Johnson
• I like the word “indolence.” It makes my laziness seem classy. Bern Williams
• I should have suspected my husband was lazy; on our wedding day his mother told me: “I’m not losing a son; I’m gaining a couch.”  Phyllis Diller
• I slip from workaholic to bum real easy. Matthew Broderick
• I’m not lazy… I’m just on my energy saving mode.
• I’m too lazy to work and too scared to steal.  Tom Bolton
• I’ve heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance? Ronald Reagan
• I’m too lazy to work and too scared to steal. Tom Bolton
• Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. Jules Renard
• Laziness is the mother of nine inventions out of ten.  Saunders’s Discovery
• Laziness is when a person doesn’t fake that he’s working.
• Most people are so lazy they don’t even exercise good judgement!  Alfred E. Neuman
• My only hobby is laziness, which naturally rules out all others. Granni Nazzano
• Our moral theorists seem never content with the normal. Why must it always be a contest between fornication, obesity and laziness, and celibacy, fasting and hard labor?  Martin H. Fischer
• People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
• People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy. Bob Hope
• Progress is made by lazy men looking for an easier way to do things.
• Sometimes I do smart things. Sometimes I do dumb things. Most of the time I don’t do anything. Gorilla Rising Hintz
• That dog was so lazy he leaned against a fence to bark.
• The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. Is it? Or maybe you just need to get up off your lazy ass and mow the lawn, water it, pull some weeds, fertilize it, take care of your own grass and stop looking over the fence. Craig Sanford
• The robe is a lazy man’s tuxedo.  Jim Gaffigan
• There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps. Herbert Prochnov
• There may be no excuse for laziness, but I’m still looking.
• There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want. Bill Watterson
• Too many young people itch for what they want without scratching for it. Thomas Taylor
• When we’re unemployed we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.  Jesse Jackson
• Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away. Paul Terry
• Yeah I’m kind of lazy. I’m dating a pregnant woman.   Myers Yori
• You are so lazy if you had a third hand you’d need a third pocket to put it in.
• You can’t leave footprints in the sands of time if you’re sitting on your butt. And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?
• You ever get a new cell phone and you’re too lazy to transfer all the numbers over so you just stop being friends with a bunch of people?  Jordan Rubin

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