Quotes and Sayings on Laziness

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day.
Lord Chesterfield

Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
Robert Half

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
Thomas a Kempis

Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.
Grenville Kleiser

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.
Walter Annenberg

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 Chrysler

The time will come when winter will ask you what you were doing all summer.
Henry Clay

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.
Albert Einstein

Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
Voltaire

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