In Christianity, laziness is recognized as part of the 7 deadly sins, because it is an external representation of people’s inability to take responsibility for their actions and seek to improve.
The big problem with this is that the consequences of the decision to adopt this passive mentality are not measured, leaving problems to accumulate. To better understand this phenomenon, here we will review the best phrases about laziness commented.
1. Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before being tired. (Jules Renard)
A reflection on the bad habit of wasting time.
2. A lazy person is a clock without hands, being useless whether he is walking or standing still. (William Cowper)
It ends up becoming a heavy burden for everyone.
3. Lazy people always talk about what they plan to do, what they will do; Those who really do something don’t have time to talk or talk about what they do. (Johann von Goethe)
Procrastination is part of laziness.
4. Laziness is my favorite reason to get up, make a plan, get the work done, and love myself. (Paloma Cameron)
Those who use laziness as a motivator to not give in.
5. The working time for diligent people is now, while the working time for lazy people is tomorrow. (Abdullah Gymnastiar)
This is how you recognize a person who does not want to get involved in the events of his life.
6. A lazy man is a windless clock. (Jaime Balmes)
You may be lost and not find your way.
7. Laziness is the mother of poverty. (Popular proverb)
You can’t get ahead if you don’t work for it.
8. You will find that the more successful the individual is, the less inclined he is to make excuses. (David Joseph Schwartz)
Successful people always find solutions.
9. The man who can use himself better and does not do so is indolent. (Thomas Fuller)
The result of being stuck in the comfort zone.
10. In most men, difficulties are the daughters of laziness. (Samuel Johnson)
Not wanting to take risks for fear of the unknown.
22. He who postpones everything will not leave anything completed or perfect. (Democritus of Abdera)
Something left halfway is useless.
23. My laziness leaves me no free time for anything. (Alphonse Allais)
Laziness consumes all possible time.
24. Idleness is the mother of all vices. (Jostein Gaarder)
Wasted free time can be a terrible enemy.
25. Luck is always the last refuge from laziness and incompetence. (James Cash Penney)
It’s no use having talent if you don’t have the proper preparation.
26. People are in a hurry to magnify themselves by imitating what is popular and too lazy to think of something better. (Thomas Merton)
Many tend to play it safe, although that makes them followers.
27. In order not to work, the lazy person makes the excuse that there is a lion lurking in the street. (Bible Proverb)
The way lazy people make excuses.
28. Boredom is a consequence of laziness.
That’s why we always have to have something to entertain ourselves.
29. For me, laziness is inexcusable. No one is obliged to be a genius – I am not – but everyone must participate in the great poetry that is our civilization and, therefore, work. (Philippe Starck)
Everyone must contribute their grain of sand to society in general.
30. Don’t miss what could be the best chapter of your life because you’re too busy rereading the last one. (Kandi Steiner)
Sometimes laziness arises from the fear of making mistakes again.
31. Dreams are not made of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition. (Napoleon Hill)
Dreams must be made of motivation.
32. No one needs a vacation more than the one who just had one. (Elbert Green Hubbard)
The charm of an eternal vacation.
33. It’s not easy to get up on a gray day. The Devil always holds your eyelids. (Ralph Ineson)
Even if you have low spirits, it is never advisable to stay still.
34. Efficiency is intelligent laziness. (David Dunham)
A very curious type of laziness.
35. People aren’t lazy, they just have impotent goals…that is, goals that don’t inspire them. (Anthony Robbins)
Goals that only seem to be achieved with things out of reach.
36. There was a time when sadness was considered a mortal sin, but later it was replaced by laziness. (Jenny Offill)
People have become lazier.
37. If you want to have a lazy husband, buy a bad mare and a good apiary.
Proverb about laziness in marriage.
38. Success is not as easy as winners make it seem nor as difficult as losers make it seem. (Orrin Woodward)
Success is achieved with perseverance.
39. You get nothing for being lazy. The world only trembles at the feet of the few craziest doers who ever lived. (Olawale Daniel)
Things are not done alone, you achieve them with work.
40. The wise use of leisure is a product of civilization and education. (Bertrand Russell)
Leisure time allows us to relax and help us acquire some skills.
41. You don’t acquire glory and fame while lying in bed.
A phrase that has everything true.
42. Too many people are too lazy to think. Instead of learning something new, they think the same thought day after day. (Robert Kiyosaki)
When we get stuck in a repetitive thought.
43. The only people who think life should be easy are lazy people. (Robert Kiyosaki)
Life, when it is too easy, does not teach us anything valuable, since it does not present us with challenges from which to learn.
44. Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow… and never today say lazy people.
Mana can extend for a long, long time.
45. There are basically two actions in life: Acting and excuses. Make a decision about what you will accept about yourself. (Steven Brown)
Important decisions that take us forward or backward.
46. ​​How can a society where there are instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience and not laziness to its offspring? (Paul Sweeney)
Globalization itself has encouraged laziness.
47. Work is the law of the modern world, which has no place for lazy people. (Mihai Eminescu)
Laziness should have no place in the world.
48. The present generation, tired by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. (Søren Kierkegaard)
There are times when laziness is the result of not wanting to try anymore.
49. Successful people don’t use the obstacles of time, education, and money as excuses…they use them as leverage to get help. (Richie Norton)
Productive ways to spend time.
50. Melancholy attacks the lazy.
When we are sad, we don’t feel like doing something beneficial.
51. No verse of scripture gives its meaning to lazy people. (Arthur W. Pink)
Nowhere is laziness praised.
52. Lazy people tend not to take risks, but they express themselves by tearing down the work of others. (Ann Rule)
They tend to take advantage of other people’s achievements.
53. In the house of the lazy man, all year round it is Saint John’s Day. (Popular proverb)
A permanent personal party.
54. Do not give in to fatalism. It will lead you to inertia and laziness. (Bertrand Russell)
When we let ourselves fall, it is difficult to find reasons to arise.
55. A lazy person, whatever talents he begins with, has condemned himself to second-rate thoughts and second-rate friends. (Cyril Connolly)
A self-imposed sentence.
56. I attribute my success to this: I never gave or accepted an excuse. (Florence Nightingale)
The true way to achieve success.
57. Laziness and failure go hand in hand.
It is caused by the loss of motivation to try again.
58. People who read too much and use their brains too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking. (Albert Einstein)
It is useless to come into contact with many ideas if you do not reflect on them.
59. There are people, the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. (Jane Austen)
They become dependent parasites.
60. Greatly unhappy is he who, being able to have fire, allows himself to die of cold, and who, having food before him, allows himself to die of hunger. (Saint Catherine of Siena)
Use your abilities to achieve your goals.
61. Being bored is crocheting with death. (Javier Sanz)
The loss of enjoyment of life.
62. Our nature is in motion. Absolute rest is death. (Blaise Pascal)
So don’t be afraid to change and move too.
63. You can get the results you want or you can have excuses. You can’t have both. (Clyde Lee Dennis)
Excuses and success do not go hand in hand.
64. All the great technological inventions created by man: the airplane, the automobile, the computer, say little about his intelligence, but they say a lot about his laziness. (Mark Kennedy)
There are inventions that encourage laziness.
65. Lazy father makes his children vicious.
Parents are the greatest example of children, for better or worse.
66. An idle young man will be a needy old man. (English Proverb)
Because it will always depend on someone.
67. Through the street of “after” you reach the square of “never”. (Luis Coloma)
Procrastination gets you nowhere.
68. Sleepy cat, doesn’t catch mouse.
Laziness prevents us from taking advantage of that opportunity we have been waiting for so long.
69. This is how leisure corrupts the human body, as waters are corrupted if they are still. (Ovid)
Leisure can promote negative habits for health in general.
70. Successful people have a habit of doing things that lazy people don’t like to do. (James Stephens)
Laziness leaves us stuck in the comfort zone.
71. Laziness… never reached the end that a good wish asks for. (Miguel de Cervantes)
We cannot go far if we are clinging to what is comfortable.
You may be interested: “The 70 best phrases of Miguel de Cervantes”
72. For a lazy man every day is a vacation. (Turkish proverb)
The way a lazy person sees the world.
73. Much evil engenders idleness.
It happens when we misuse our time.
74. Laziness is probably the most difficult and tiring way to be what you are. (Georges Perros)
An interesting reflection on the consequences of laziness.
75. Lazy people always intend to start doing something. (Luc de Clapiers)
An intention that never takes the first step.
76. Sloth, that is, the passion of inaction, has, to triumph, an advantage over other passions, and that is that it does not demand anything. (Jaime Luciano Balmes)
It is very easy to get carried away by laziness.
77. What is the most universal human characteristic? Fear… or laziness?
A question with a difficult answer.
78. The worst disease is boredom. (Freddie Mercury)
It leads us to try bad things.
79. The devil often finds work for those who find none for themselves. (Benjamin Whichcote)
Sooner or later, you will pay the consequences of your actions.
80. My ambition is limited by my laziness. (Charles Bukowski)
A consequence that many artists share.
81. To work, it is enough to be convinced of one thing: that working is less boring than having fun. (Charles Baudelaire)
That’s why it’s important to love what we do.
82. The laziness of our spirit is greater than that of our body. (François de La Rochefoucauld)
That’s why it’s so heavy and addictive.
83. The only time a lazy man succeeds is when he tries to do nothing. (Evan Esar)
He is quite an expert there.
84. Lazy, does not fill belly. (Saying)
You can’t support yourself by doing anything.
85. Those who live in vain bury themselves dearly. (Valeriu Butulescu)
So try to have ambitions for your life.
86. I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success. Great things come from hard work and perseverance. There are no excuses. (Kobe Bryant)
Lazy people always blame others for what they don’t have.
87. He who postpones everything will not leave anything completed or perfect. (Democritus of Abdera)
Everything that begins needs to be finished.
88. Hunger is the inseparable companion of the lazy. (Hesiod)
Two sins that go perfectly together.
89. The day is excessively long for those who do not know how to appreciate and use it. (Johann von Goethe)
How lazy people see the passage of time.
90. Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon catches up with it. (Benjamin Franklin)
