Wendell Mayes Quotes

A lobster, when left high and dry among the rock, does not have the sense enough to work his way back to the sea, but waits for the sea to come to him. If it does not come, he remains where he is and dies, although the slightest effort would enable him to reach the waves, which are perhaps within a yard of him. The world is full of human lobsters; people stranded on the rocks of indecision and procrastination, who, instead of putting forth their own energies, are waiting for some grand billow of good fortune to set them afloat.

I'm just a lazy boy. I'd rather sit in my recliner and act.

Boredom is usually what spurs either bad decisions or any decision at all.

Not to decide is to decide.

I'll probably make loads of plans, and then just sit around on my bottom all day long and do nothing.

The best advice is to get on with it. I'm very prone to falling into depressions - not clinical, just 'can't be bothered.' It's such a waste of time.

Professionally, I have no major goals. That's partly because I'm really flaky. I want things, but I don't go after them. I'd rather they be placed in my lap.

Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

Of all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful a tooth as indolence.

Indecision and reveries are the anesthetics of constructive action.

I am one of those who will not do anything and just sit at home if I don't like the work coming my way.

When I don't feel like working, I don't.

Deep down inside, I am lazy.

He who hesitates, meditates horizontally

Sometimes, the hardest habit to break is the habit of doing nothing beyond the necessary.

Far from having taken any positive step, I have not yet even fommed any resolution.

Inaction saps the vigor of the mind.

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide.

It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness, languid as it is, often masters them all; she influences all our designs and actions, and insensibly consumes and destroys both passions and virtues.

If you hesitate to map out your future, to make a big plan or to set a goal, you've just gone ahead and mapped your future anyway.

While some of us act without thinking, too many of us think without acting.

If I look at the mass I will never act.

My ambition is handicapped by laziness

Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.