Benjamin Franklin Quotes

I would rather be sick than idle.

I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages.

Laziness is the one common deficiency in mankind that blocks the establishment of a perfect world in which everyone leads a happy life.

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.

Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle

It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So for me, I would always have an excuse, you know, to go - quit early, go to a museum, you know. So I do everything I can to make myself remember this is a job. I keep a schedule.

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

One of the things I'm really good at is procrastinating.

I'm so good at procrastinating.

I love working. I feel guilty about doing nothing; I get bored.

I don't have a good work ethic. I have a real casual relationship with hours.

I waste most of the day, then finally start to write around 3 P.M., totally disgusted with myself for my wasteful nature.

You can't get anything done hanging out all day long.

I can procrastinate a little bit.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

I wish I was more industrious, but I don't necessarily have that drive.

I'm not a particularly disciplined person in terms of my work habits.

I'm a pretty good procrastinator.

Work is not a shame. Laziness is a shame.

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.

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.

The busiest people I have known in my life always have time enough to do everything. Those who do nothing are always tired and pay no attention to the little amount of work they are required to do. They complain constantly that the day is too short. The truth is, they are afraid to fight the good fight.

That man is idle who can do something better.

I kind of try to resist working a lot. I'm not a very disciplined worker.

In theory I can do almost anything; certainly I have been told how. In practice I do as little as possible. I pretend to myself that I would be quite happy in a hermit's cave, living on gruel, if someone else would make the gruel. Gruel, like so many other things, is beyond me.