Nellie McKay Quotes

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

There is no point in being lazy.

The only time a lazy man ever succeeds is when he tries to do nothing.

Don't tolerate lazy people. They are losers.

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 most unbearable thing about many successful people is not - as we flatteringly think - how lazy they are, but how hard they work.

When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough to encourage me.

And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.

I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.

'Inspiration' is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything.

You can't find the sound if you just love sleep.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

I lose now and then. I get lazy. And sometimes I work just hard enough to win.

It's terrible, I know, but I will admit I was a really lazy kid. It was Bronte who would wake me up in the morning, go to training early, and take in some tips from the older training group. I would be there grumbling and complaining. After she began to reap the rewards of her labour, it definitely kindled a fire.

I don't want to waste my life by being lazy.

The person who does only what he must when he is in the mood or when it's convenient isn't going to be successful.

If you're lazy, don't expect much in terms of success. You're owed nothing and success will not be given to you. It's earned.

Laziness means more work in the long run.

Experience has taught me that there is one chief reason why some people succeed and others fail. The difference is not one of knowing, but of doing. The successful man is not so superior in ability as in action. So far as success can be reduced to a formula, it consists of this: doing what you know you should do.

Working really hard is what successful people do.

Most people, especially successful people, are hard-working. They want to participate. They want to do things well.

The average man won't really do a day's work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it. There is plenty of work to do if people would do it.