Quotes about Laziness

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow just as well.

All play and no work make Jack a poor boy.

5. Procrastination

Simplicity is a great virtue, but oversimplification can actually be a vice, a sign of laziness.

Simple active work and spiritual activity are not the same thing. Active work can actually be the counterfeit of spiritual activity. The real danger in spiritual laziness is that we do not want to be stirred up—all we want to hear about is a spiritual retirement from the world. Yet Jesus Christ never encourages the idea of retirement—He says, "Go and tell My brethren . . ." (Matthew 28:10).

Worrying means exactly what this servant implied—"I know your intent is to leave me unprotected and vulnerable." A person who is lazy in the natural realm is always critical, saying, "I haven't had a decent chance," and someone who is lazy in the spiritual realm is critical of God. Lazy people always strike out at others in an independent way.

The real danger in spiritual laziness is that we do not want to be stirred up—all we want to hear about is a spiritual retirement from the world.

The hand of the diligent will rule, but laziness ends in forced labor.

Whoever is slothful in his work is brother to him who destroys.

Laziness brings on deep sleep, and an idle soul will suffer hunger.

As a door turns on its hinges, so the slacker turns on his bed.

Through laziness the roof caves in, and in the hands of the idle, the house leaks.