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“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.”

“Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.”

Giving Perfection Aim Laziness Persevere Perfectionism Unattainable Despondency

Book:Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son

Source: Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son

“Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.”

“Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.”

“They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men and bondage have taught them: improvidence and intemperance and evasion-not laziness: evasion: of what white men had set them to, not for their aggrandizement or even comfort but his own.”

Men Justice White Taught Comfort Stronger Social Justice Endure Vices Laziness White Man Bondage Evasion Intemperance

Author:William Faulkner

“The perfection of joyful determination is defined as taking delight or feeling joy in doing something positive or virtuous. If you are very joyful about doing negative things or about being busy with meaningless activities, this is not called joyful exertion from a Buddhist point of view. This kind of attitude is actually a form of laziness, an attachment to frivolous activities. Such a person would not be considered diligent at all. But if you are JOYFUL and DETERMINED TO PERFORM POSITIVE ACTIONS, then as a result, you discover and learn many new things that you didn't know about before.”

“The sleeping fox catches no poultry.”

Action Sleep Business Educational Laziness Foxes Inaction Poor Richard Poultry

Book:The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Easyread Edition

Source: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Easyread Edition

“One musts avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness.”

Wicked Latin Laziness Temptress

Author:Horace

“Negativity is basically laziness. It takes a lot of hard work to remain positive, but positivity always pays off.”

Hard Pay Positive Hard Work Positivity Laziness Negativity

Author:RuPaul

“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.”

Thinking Mother Opinion Trouble Oneself Invention Arise Memorable Laziness Idleness Inventing Hercule Poirot Discovery And Invention Borrowed Time Necessity Is The Mother Of Invention

Book:An autobiography

Source: An autobiography

“Everything depends on attitude. We are ambitious or lazy, enthusiastic or dull, loyal or undependable, according to our attitude. We get good grades or poor grades - according to our attitudes. Discouragement is an attitude. Lack of industry is an attitude. Failure to follow instructions is an attitude. attitude”

Poor Attitude Failure Depends Industry Loyalty Dull Grades Lazy Instruction Loyal Ambitious Laziness Enthusiastic Discouragement Good Grades

Author:Sterling W Sill

“Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.”

Real Suffering Issues Our Lives Buddhism Activity Western Laziness Cramming

Book:The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition

Source: The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition

“Simplifying our lives does not mean sinking into idleness, but on the contrary, getting rid of the most subtle aspect of laziness: the one which makes us take on thousands of less important activities.”

Mean Doe Important Suffering Our Lives Buddhism Activity Aspect Contrary Subtle Laziness Idleness Sinking

Author:Matthieu Ricard

“We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.”

Lazy Laziness Inferiors

Author:Bernard de Mandeville

“There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.”

Lazy Laziness Fatigue

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“The idle always have a mind to do something.”

Mind Lazy Laziness Idle

Author:Luc de Clapiers

“Talkers are no good doers.”

Silence Humorous Laziness Doers Talkers

Book:The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Henry IV, pt. 2. Henry V. Henry VI, pts. 1-3

Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Henry IV, pt. 2. Henry V. Henry VI, pts. 1-3

“I'm afraid of being lazy and complacent. I'm afraid of taking myself too seriously.”

Lazy Laziness Complacent Being Lazy

Author:Barbara Hershey

“Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.”

Mind Weak Laziness Refuge Idleness Glitter Weak Minds

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“I like the word "indolence." It makes my laziness seem classy.”

Seems Humorous Profound Lazy Laziness English Language Indolence Lazy Man

Author:Bernard Williams

“Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.”

Inspirational States Happiness Stress Laziness Delightful Indolence Distressing

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.”

People Lazy Anxious Laziness Lazy People

Author:Luc de Clapiers

“The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.”

Causes Women Hurt Regret Prejudice Envy Temper Laziness Jealousy Envy Outburst Jealousy And Envy Hurting Others

Book:the female eunuch

Source: the female eunuch

“Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.”

“The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after.”

Done Ready Tomorrow Laziness Idle Sloth

Author:John Lyly

“Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard.”

Hard Laziness Pillow Sloth Weariness

Author:William Shakespeare

“Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.”

Men Difficult Impossible Ready Industry Calling Laziness Idle Intimidating Sloth Intimidation

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson: Reviews, politica. tracts, and lives of eminent persons

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson: Reviews, politica. tracts, and lives of eminent persons

“The scent of Sloth tempts a smug man.”

Men Laziness Scent Sloth

Author:James Boswell

“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.”

Knows Art Ends Practice Produce Exercise Sorrow Delight Seeds Repentance Laziness Shut Up Sloth

Book:The works

Source: The works

“It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.”

Ease Laziness Tranquility Doom Sloth Gluttony Drowsy

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler

“No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time is worth nothing.”

Men Laziness Sloth Measuring Idlers Methodical

Book:The Complete Short Stories of Washington Irving: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall, Tales of a Traveler, The Alhambra, Woolfert’s Roost & The Crayon Papers Collections (Illustrated): The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, Old Christmas, The Voyage, Roscoe, The Widow’s Retinue, An Old Soldier, Mountjoy, Don Juan, Woolfert’s Roost, Tales of The Alhambra and many more

Source: The Complete Short Stories of Washington Irving: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall, Tales of a Traveler, The Alhambra, Woolfert’s Roost & The Crayon Papers Collections (Illustrated): The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, Old Christmas, The Voyage, Roscoe, The Widow’s Retinue, An Old Soldier, Mountjoy, Don Juan, Woolfert’s Roost, Tales of The Alhambra and many more

“Man like every other animal is by nature indolent. If nothing spurs him on, then he will hardly think, and will behave from habit like an automaton.”

Ifs Thinking Men Animal Habit Behave Laziness Spurs Sloth

Book:The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It

Source: The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It

“Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.”

Moments Prepared Surrender Yield Witch Laziness Be Prepared Sloth Alluring

Book:Complete Works

Source: Complete Works

“There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.”

Kind Business Appearance Laziness Idleness Sloth

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler

“The biggest challenge you have is to challenge your own self doubt and your laziness. It is your self doubt and your laziness that defines and limit who you are.”

Inspirational Self Inspiration Challenges Doubt Inspire Limits Who You Are Laziness Rich And Poor Self-doubt Being Rich Rich Poor Rich Money

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“Generations of women have sacrificed their lives to become their mothers. But we do not have that luxury any more. The world has changed too much to let us have the lives our mothers had. And we can no longer afford the guilt we feel at not being our mothers. We cannot afford any guilt that pulls us back to the past. We have to grow up, whether we want to or not. We have to stop blaming men and mothers and seize every second of our lives with passion. We can no longer afford to waste our creativity. We cannot afford spiritual laziness.”

Men World Want Feels Past Spiritual Mother Passion Grows Creativity Growing Up Too Much Our Lives Generations Changed Waste Daughter Blame Guilt Luxury Laziness Every Second Live With Passion

Author:Erica Jong

“Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride, or laziness of mind.”

Knows Mind Simple Ignorance Pride Active Cowardice Laziness Refusal Aversion Lack Of Knowledge

Author:Karl Popper

“Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.”

Thinking World Life Doe Hate Pride I Hate Philosophical Fellows Sorry Corners Retirement Retiring Cowardice Laziness Retired Bark

Author:Samuel Johnson

“I am a lazy man. Laziness keeps me from believing that enlightenment demands effort, discipline, strict diet, non-smoking, and other evidences of virtue. There is a paradise in and around you right now, and to be there you don't even have to make a move. There is nothing you need to do first in order to be enlightened. All potential experiences are within you already. You can open up to them at any time.”

Source: The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment

“Probably the most honest "self-made person" ever was the one we heard say: "I got to the top the hard way - fighting my own laziness and ignorance every step of the way."”

Way Persons Made Self Hard Fighting My Own Steps Heard Honest Ignorance Laziness Every Step Self Made Hard Way

Author:James Alexander Thom

“Normal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery.”

Children Lying Stage Normal Passionate Cruelty Laziness Thievery

Author:G. Stanley Hall

“Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.”

War Government Drug Weakness Punishment Laziness War On Drugs

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Turn on the prudent Ant, thy heedful eyes, Observe her labours, Sluggard, and be wise.”

Eye Turns Wise Labor Laziness Ants Turn-on Being Wise Prudent

Author:Samuel Johnson

“Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man.”

Men Years Tomorrow Appeals Lazy Laziness Procrastination Will Power Procrastinating Lazy People Being Lazy Funny Procrastination Lazy Man

Author:Jimmy Lyons

“Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and nudity would burden them.”

Men Trouble Honesty Burden Clothings Laziness Unconditional Nudity

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Evil people hate the light because it reveals themselves to themselves. ... They will destroy the light, the goodness, the love in order to avoid the pain of self-awareness. ... [E]vil is laziness carried to its ultimate, extraordinary extreme.”

People Self Light Truth Pain Hate Order Evil Awareness Goodness Ultimate Self Awareness Extraordinary Extremes Laziness Evil People

Author:M. Scott Peck

“Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?”

Mean Values Belief Moral Morality Lazy Customs Cowardice Laziness Suspicious Dishonesty Cowardly

Book:Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

Source: Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

“Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.”

Drinking Drunk Lazy Laziness Sloth Indolence Being Lazy Loving Deeply

Author:Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

“My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a delightful sensation about three degrees on this sight of faintness - if I had teeth of pearl and the breath of lilies I should call it languor - but as I am I must call it laziness. In this state of effeminacy the fibers of the brain are relaxed in common with the rest of the body, and to such a happy degree that pleasure has no show of enticement and pain no unbearable frown. Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.”

“Laziness is a programmers main virtue.”

Inspiring Virtue Inspire Laziness Programmers

Author:Larry Wall