Dalai Lama Quotes

I'm a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.

The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false.

I am overcome by my own amazing sloth...Can you please forgive me and believe that it is really because I want to do something well that I don't do it at all?

We live in an age of 'urge'. We do nothing till somebody shoves us.

I'm basically a very lazy person who likes to get credit for things other people actually do.

The devil finds work for idle hands.

It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates, one can do it when one will, and therefore one seldom does it at all.

I dream too much, work too little.

Procrastination is a lazy man's apology.

I'm very lazy, I hate to work.

The idle man is the devil's cushion.

The sluggard is a living insensible.

One monster there is in the world, the idle man.

from the beginning of my sojourn in this world there was a persistent vacancy in me where the industry ought to be. (Ought to was is better, perhaps, though the most of the authorities differ as to this.

There are times when one is tempted to say that the great, sprawling, lethargic sin of Sloth is the oldest and greatest of the sins and the parent of all the rest.

Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.

Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness.

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide.

The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after.

The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.

I am not the only one that condemns the idle; for once when I was going to give our minister a pretty long list of the sins of one of our people that he was asking after, I began with, "He's dreadfully lazy." "That's enough," said the old gentleman; " all sorts of sins are in that one.

Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?

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.

I ask myself, 'why am I so lazy?' and am too lazy to reply.