Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Thomas Jefferson

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

Soren Kierkegaard

He that is busy is tempted by but one devil; he that is idle, by a legion.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

Jules Renard

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

Mary Wilson Little

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

Edgar Bergen

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.

Agatha Christie

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

Thomas a Kempis

That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.

Pliny the Younger

Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.

Floyd Dell

Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.

Hippocrates

I view the tea-drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frome, an engender of effeminacy and laziness, a debaucher of youth and maker of misery for old age.

William Cobbett

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Jules Renard

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

Franz Kafka

There is no room for laziness.

Danielle Goyette

LAZINESS, n. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

Ambrose Bierce

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.

Sam Keen

Procrastination: Hard work often pays off after time, but laziness always pays off now.

Larry Kersten

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

Anne Frank

I like the word `indolence.' it makes my laziness seem classy.

Bern Williams

Modesty is an excuse for sloppiness, laziness, self- indulgence; small ambitions evoke small efforts.

Stephen Vizinczey

If necessity is the mother of invention, then laziness must be its father.

Carl Stoddard

It's laziness. Some go and collect a lot of quotes and put them together and never attempt to determine whose opinion is driven by fact and knowledge.

Kurt Eichenwald

Even corporate IT people didn't do it. Some of it was due to laziness and some of it was due to the fact that people don't think about this.

Larry Seltzer

I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction.

John Steinbeck

By walking with and living in a group they will be able to shake off their laziness and selfishness.

Xu Xiangyang

It's associated with laziness. People sit around for hours chewing.

Omar Jamal