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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.
My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.
Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.
The trouble with the world is that laziness is seldom curable and never fatal.
I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.
If we don't progress, we backslide into bad habits, laziness and poor attitude.
Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.
The longer a soul hath neglected duty, the more ado there is to get it taken up.
Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard.
I'm not going to say it's laziness, but I'm not a grand creator of new characters.
The bias of the mainstream media is toward sensationalism, conflict, and laziness.
I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
I'm afraid of being lazy and complacent. I'm afraid of taking myself too seriously.
Okay, I'm lazy. But being lazy is a talent. Sometimes it takes an awful lot of work.
Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.
Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!
The lazy manage to keep up with the earth's rotation just as well as the industrious.
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
Laziness is the one divine fragment of a godlike existence left to man from paradise.
From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.
Turn on the prudent Ant, thy heedful eyes, Observe her labours, Sluggard, and be wise.
We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.
The habit of taking the line of least resistance makes all rivers and some men crooked.
You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off.
There is a - deep down, underneath all the work I do, I think there's a laziness in me.
When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.
Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.
He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.
I'm not the kind of person who works 24 hours a day, mostly out of laziness; I don't know.
Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.
Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do
Golden opportunities are nothing to laziness, but industry makes the commonest chances golden.
It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.
Those that dare lose a day, ate dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, are desperate.
Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness.
No man ever flees from duty without incalculable hurt, not only to himself, but to others as well.
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
Cut the bondage of all worldly affections; go beyond laziness and all care as to what becomes of you.
We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.
Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good.
The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after.
It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.
Those who do the least themselves are always the severest critics upon the noble achievements of others.
Many say they can't get God's guidance, when they really mean they wish He would show them an easier way.
Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.
Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.
Buzyness, however, is moral laziness because it involves refusing to live with courage and intentionality.
Laziness in my biggest pet peeve of all time. Get up, make a plan, do the work, and love yourself, people!
Curiosity, rationalization, and laziness are no match against courage, self-control, and mental toughness.