Sometimes, we all need a little motivation to get things done. Whether it’s a looming deadline, a challenging task, or a boring chore, we might feel like procrastinating and doing nothing.
But being lazy can also have its benefits. It can inspire creativity, relaxation, and humor.
That’s why we’ve compiled this list of lazy quotes that will make you laugh, think, and maybe even get up and do something.
These quotes are from famous authors, celebrities, philosophers, and comedians who know a thing or two about being lazy. Enjoy!
10 Best Lazy Quotes
- “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
- “You will succeed because most people are lazy.” – Shahir Zag
- “You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.” – Charles Brixton
- “You will find that the more successful the individual, the less inclined he is to make excuses.” – David Joseph Schwartz
- “You may delay, but time will not.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “You can’t teach people to be lazy – either they have it, or they don’t.” – Dagwood Bumstead
- “You cannot save people, you can just love them.” – Anaïs Nin
- “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “You can have the results you want, or you can have excuses. You can’t have both.” – Clyde Lee Dennis
- “You can have excuses or you can have success; you can’t have both.” – Jen Sincero
Funny Lazy Quotes
- “Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.” – William Penn
- “Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back.” – Harvey Mackay
- “Time is a created thing. To say, ‘I don’t have time,’ is to say, ‘I don’t want to.’” – Lao Tzu
- “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” – Andy Warhol
- “There’s only one thing more precious than our time and that’s who we spend it on.” – Leo Christopher
- “There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.” – Bill Watterson
- “The way we spend our time defines who we are.” – Jonathan Estrin
- “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” – Leo Tolstoy
- “The trouble is, you think you have time.” – Buddha
- “Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.” – Benjamin Franklin
Motivational Quotes to Stop Being Lazy
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- “When you are willing to replace mundane excuses with hard work and your laziness with determination, nothing can prevent you from succeeding.” – Prem Jagyasi
- “We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas A. Edison
- “We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.” – Nelson Mandela
- “We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?” – Buddha
- “Uncomplicate it. Don’t make excuses. Some of life’s biggest heartaches come from missed opportunities and lame excuses. Don’t miss out on what could be the best chapter in your life because you’re too busy rereading the last one.” – Kandi Steiner
- “Too many young people itch for what they want without scratching for it.” – Thomas Taylor
- “Better three hours too soon than one minute too late.” – William Shakespeare
- “Bad excuses are worse than none.” – Thomas Fuller
- “Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.” – Albert Einstein
- “A year from now you may wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb
- “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein
- “A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.” – Bob Hope
- “ Towards evening the lazy person begins to get busy.” – German Proverb
Short Lazy Quotes
- “Idle hands are the devil’s playthings.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Luck never brings luxury to the lazy.” – Amit Kalantri
- “There is a great volcano sleeping in every laziness!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
- “Lazy begets poverty every time!” – Mark Dawson
- “One must avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness.” – Horace
- “Pessimism is a primary source of passivity.” – Barbara W. Tuchman
- “With work misery is relieved, with laziness misery is multiplied.” – Abhijit Naskar
- “One excuse, could destroy a multitude of chances.” – Anthony Liccione
- “Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.” – Robert A. Heinlein
- “Laziness demands misery.” – Bryant McGill
Memorable Quotes about Lazy People
- “Most criminals in prison can trace their crime to their first murderous act- that of killing time.” – Wyatt Allen
- “Procrastination is my sin. It brings me naught but sorrow. I know that I should stop it. In fact, I will…tomorrow.” – Gloria Pitzer
- “If you wait for the mango fruits to fall, you’d be wasting your time while others are learning how to climb the tree.” – Michael Bassey Johnson
- “Like many lazy people, once I started work I could not stop; perhaps that is why we avoid it.” – Cyril Connolly
- “Laziness will stop your progress in your spiritual practice.” – Renuka Singh
- “Georgiana, a more vain and absurd animal than you was certainly never allowed to cumber the earth. You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life.” – Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
- “Laziness is a habit which makes you fall in the pit, lazy people don’t act but prefer to sit, they delay action with some excuse, laziness is of no use.” – Ron Sen
- “We may regard certain days as free days. Free days are however fee days. We will pay later.” – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- “If you ask me which is the real hereditary sin of human nature, do you imagine I shall answer pride, or luxury, or ambition, or egotism? No; I shall say indolence. Who conquers indolence will conquer all the rest. Indeed all good principles must stagnate without mental activity.” – Johann Zimmerman
- “Laziness is always your fault. It is the sign that a man has persevered in uselessness for too long.” – Idries Shah
Inspirational Lazy People Quotes To Work Hard
- “Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.” ― Tchaikovsky
- “A lazy man is that man that runs away from battles and never comes back, but a wise man fights to live and continues wherever he needs to be.” — Chukwuemeka E. Onyejinduaka
- “The lazy man gets round the sun as quickly as the busy one.” — R. T. Wombat
- “Lazy folks take the most pain.” — J. W. Monette
- “Work is the law of the modern world, which has no place for lazy people.” — Mihai Eminescu
- “If a lazy man desires gold, he will die without realizing his dreams, because every dream of a lazy man ends at night.” — Chukwuemeka E. Onyejinduaka
- “Depression is just a word that lazy and weak people invented to justify their unwillingness or incapacity to evolve.” — Robin Sacredfire
- “Idleness for me is not a giving up on life but a spirited grabbing hold of it.” — Tom Hodgkinson
- “The only time a lazy man ever succeeds is when he tries to do nothing.” — Evan Esar
- “A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be enough sleeping in the grave.” — Benjamin Franklin
I Am Not Lazy Quotes
- “You are only as lazy or lacking in willpower as you think you are.” – Ken Christian
- “Work is the law of the modern world, which has no place for lazy people.” – Mihai Eminescu
- “Work hard and become a leader; be lazy and never succeed.” – The Bible
- “Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.” – Paul Terry
- “When you stop making excuses and you work hard and go hard you will be very successful.” – DJ Khaled
- “Plan to be spontaneous tomorrow.” – Steven Wright
- “Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” – Pablo Picasso
- “Offer the lazy an egg, and they’ll want you to peel it for them.” – Lithuanian Proverb
- “Now I’m a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.” – Martin Fowler
- “No one ever excused his way to success.” – Dave Del Dotto
- “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.” – Mark Twain
- “’Never judge a book by its cover’. I say that because I don’t even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.” – Ozzy Osbourne
- “My mother always told me I wouldn’t amount to anything because I procrastinate. I said, ‘Just wait.” – Judy Tenuta
- “My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.” – Charles Dickens
- “Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses in your life; you realize everything that happens in life is a result of the previous choice you’ve made and start making new choices to change your life.” – Roy T. Bennett
Funny Quotes about Laziness
- “The only time a lazy man ever succeeds is when he tries to do nothing.” – Evan Esar
- “Lazy people fact: #2347827309018287. You were too lazy to read this number.” – Skylar Blue
- “The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.” – Robert Frost
- “Reclined legs don’t get fed, they get limp like boiled spaghetti. Walk it out!” – T.F. Hodge
- “Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.” – Kim Hubbard
- “The shortest distance from point A to point B is a straight line. But because going from point A to point A is even shorter, it’s never not rush hour.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough
- “Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves; some turn up their noses; some don’t turn up at all.” – Sam Ewing
- “Too many people itch for what they want without scratching for it.” – Thomas Taylor
- “Shahid was the free spirit of the Kamal family: a dreamer, an idealist, a wanderer on the face of the earth- or, as Ahmed would put it, a lazy fuckwit.” – John Lanchester
- “The trouble with the world is that laziness is seldom curable and never fatal.” – Evan Esar
In a nutshell, Lazy Quotes can be your go-to source for motivation and inspiration.
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