William Hazlitt Quotes

The primary reason for underachievement and failure is that the great majority of people don't decide to be successful.

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

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

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

Quitting is the easiest thing to do.

Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.

'Bad' health, in a thousand different forms, is used as an excuse for failing to do what a person wants to do, failing to accept greater responsibilities, failing to make more money, failing to achieve success.

When people are successful, they usually become 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.

there are many ways to fail. Some reject success. And others do not recognize it when success comes.

Just like everything, even the most fun and creative endeavor requires work to be successful, and I'm so sick of working. I'm a lazy person at heart. I never meant to be a go-getter.

Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now.

Don't judge those who try and fail. Judge only those who fail to try.

Never hide behind busy work. It takes just as much energy to fail as it does to succeed.

A man was desired to rise from bed because the sun was already up. He replied: "If I had as far to go and as much to do as he has, I should be up by now; but having but a little way to go, I shall not get up yet."

People who fail, excel at avoiding opportunity.

It takes less work to succeed than to fail.

He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.

Better to work and fail than to sleep one's life away.

Success can lead to complacency, and complacency is the greatest enemy of success.

We fail when we give up too soon.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.