Laziness is a quality that prevents people from getting tired.
If you have been going in circles, perhaps you have been cutting corners.
Nothing cures insomnia more than the realization that it is time to get up.
The turnover is highly important, whether it’s business or when the alarm clock goes off in the morning.
By the time you reach your station in life, the train has left.
The American people spend more for chewing gum than for books—it’s easier to chew than to read.
Fill a place—not just space.
A humble talent that is used is worth more than one of a genius that is idle.
Some people will spend half an hour sharpening a knife just so they can whittle a stick.
Some people who boast about how broad-minded they are may just be too lazy to find out which side they’re on.
A hen is the only thing that can lay around and produce.
If you insist on standing still, stand aside; others may be going somewhere.
A lot of people who complain about being up to their ears in work are just lying down on the job.
There are no idle rich. They’re all busy dodging people who want some of it.
The person who thinks the world owes him a living may be too lazy to work for it.
Too many people not only think the world owes them a living, but expect the government to collect it for them.
The reason there is much room at the top is the crowd at the bottom is waiting for the elevator to take them up.
Indifference and laziness are the devil’s chief tools against Christians.
A lazy person tempts the devil to tempt him.
When an idler sees a completed job, he is sure he could have done it better.
The world is full of people making a good living but not good lives.
The most serious idleness of all is being busy with things that do not matter.
The Christian cannot afford the luxury of loafing.
Luck is a lazy man’s estimate of a worker’s success.
Most all sins come from laziness.
You cannot leave footprints in the sands of time while sitting down.
Sleeping saints serve Satan.
Many people are on the gospel train, but too many are in the sleeper.
Rip Van Winkle is the only man to become famous while he slept.
The hardest work one can do is to do nothing.
Easy is the enemy of ambition.
We may be on the right track, but if we just sit there, we may get run over.
Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears.
To do nothing is tiresome because you cannot stop and take a rest.
God calls men when they are busy; Satan when they are idle.
Bread is the staff of life, but there is no reason why our life should be a continual loaf.
One of the saddest sights in life is the man who can only do nothing when he finds himself with nothing to do.
People seldom want to walk over you until you lie down.
God promises no loaves to the loafer.
The lazy person speaks much about yesterday and tomorrow.
Some people are like blisters—they never show up until the work is done.
The most serious idleness of all is being busy with things that do not matter.
Nothing conceals your laurels so much as resting on them.
The road to success is marked with many tempting parking places.
It takes an honest man to tell whether he’s tired or just lazy.
To many people, the ideal occupation is the one that doesn’t keep them occupied.
Some things must be put off many, many times before they finally slip our minds.
The lazy man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.
One thing for sure—you’ll never stumble on anything while sitting down.