Jim Rohn Quotes

The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed.

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."

I can be a lazy slob.

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

I don't have a good work ethic. I have a real casual relationship with hours.

I'm totally not a blogger. Sometimes I don't even check my email. I know I should.

Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.

Because you can be lazy if you don't know the truth.

In high school, you at least have to get up at a reasonable hour and show up at places on time. College, on the other hand, gave me the sense that I could complete major assignments at 2 A.M. without suffering any repercussions, along with the erroneous idea that in real life, things started after one in the afternoon.

I kind of waited for opportunities to be handed to me. I think I was lazy, and when things didn't go right, I just said, 'Oh well.'

Someone once defined hard work as the accumulation of the easy things you didn't do when you should have.

A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.

There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort.

Not doing things you can do is the whole point of laziness. Not doing something you can't do is just sensible.

Knowing what to do and not doing it is the same as not knowing what to do.

That's human nature. Nobody does anything until it's too late.

If you wait until you feel like doing something, you will likely never accomplish it.

And worrying is less work than doing something to fix the worry. This is especially true if we're careful to pick the biggest possible problems to worry about. Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody want to help Mom do the dishes.

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

My ambition is handicapped by laziness

Don't think that you can make up for it by working twice as hard tomorrow. If you have it within your power to work twice as hard, why aren't you doing it now?

Llarimar had told him to do his best. That sounded like an awful lot of work. Unfortunately, doing nothing was beginning to seem like even MORE work.

If you rest too long the weeds take the garden.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

A lazy man works twice as hard. My mother told that to me, and now I say it to my kids. If you're writing an essay, keep it in the lines and in the margins so you don't have to do it over.