Best Quotes and speeches on Laziness, Indecision and Cowardice
- A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid. It is only deferred and must come back and settle the account at last.
― Joseph Newton - A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
― Anonymous - As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It’s a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write. Having anybody watching that or attempting to share it with me would be grisly.
― Paul Rudnick - Both positive and negative thinking are contagious.
― Stephen Richards - But I’m really enjoying my retirement. I get to sleep in every day. I do crossword puzzles and eat cake.
― Derek Landy - Do not allow idleness to deceive you; for while you give him today, he steals tomorrow from you.
― H. Cromwell - Efficiency is intelligent laziness.
― David Dunham - Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.
― Jeremy Collier - Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do.
― Elbert Hubbard - 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 - Habits are products of our choice; we are what we make of ourselves.
― E.W Kenyon - Hard work is the accumulation of easy things that should have been done previously. The hardest work to do is that which should have been done yesterday.
― John Mason - 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 don’t think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
― Agatha Christie - I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air — or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
― Arthur Conan Doyle - I have no point in procrastinating any longer.
― Flora Rheta Schreiber - I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace is a permit for destruction: The unyielding optimist will pretend that the forest is not burning either because he is too lazy or too afraid to go and put the fire out.
― Criss Jami - I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no anxiety about doing nothing by my own fault, my conscience was clear, and I was happy. This was when I was in prison.
― Daniil Kharms - I was trained to turn loneliness into laziness.
― Bill Callahan - I will prepare and someday my chance will come.
― Abraham Lincoln
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