We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work

It was not because I had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, but because Joe had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, that I worked with tolerable zeal against the grain.

I've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?

Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else. But really there wasn't much point, and I gave up the idea out of laziness.

If you are lazy, then undoubtedly you will soon become poor

You make name for yourself when you overcome pain, weakness, laziness and ignorance

God does not like lazy people, He likes those who work

The city is dirty due to the laziness of the citizens in the country.

Laziness is when you accede to the misconception that work is unnecessary.

Laziness is when you accede to the misconception that work is unnecessary.

Laziness is when you accede to the misconception that work is unnecessary.

The idea of passing one's whole life in moral idleness, and having one's hardest work and duty done by another-whether God or man-is most revolting to us, as it is most degrading to human dignity.

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

It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.

Don't yield to that alluring witch, Laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state: we must be doing something to be happy.

Flee laziness, which, while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a seed shut up in the pod, and art without practice is nothing.

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.

Idleness leads to relaxation, sooner or later bringing about ideological and material corruption, accompanied by lack of discipline, anarchy chaos and defeat.