Edward Young Quotes

I don't like sitting around and not doing anything because that's the easiest way to get complacent and get lazy.

Change doesn't happen with people sitting on their behinds, getting lazy.

I had a choice to be lazy or lean - if I hadn't changed, thing probably would catch up with me.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

It's not going to be enough, until I get out of my chair and walk.

I think like a lot of people, you look back on your life and say, 'Gee, why didn't I apply myself?' If I would have spent as much time studying as I did conniving, trying to do as little as possible, I probably would have got the A's.

I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.

My dad is really just lazy. He has nothing, I feel, to offer this world.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

The idle always have a mind to do something.

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

Our own laziness taxes us more than kings...

Anything is better than sitting around waiting for the right movie to come along. I lose my edge when I'm sitting around the pool not working.

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.

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

Believe me, I do not like idleness but work.

I work like a dog when I have to, but when I'm not working, I get terribly lazy and could sit around all day.

There is no point in being lazy.

I hate not practicing.

You can have the best intentions in the world but if you do nothing, you are nothing.

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.

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