Phyllis Diller Quotes

There's good and bad in every arena. It's funny, some people, the reason they're in the underground is because they're lazy and don't make things happen for themselves.

The world doesn't give a damn about you unless you do something. Those are the rules; I didn't make them. If you are lazy, if you don't get the work that you love done, the world won't care if you die tomorrow and go into the grave and are gone and forgotten forever.

I only really work when I want to.

I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.

My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don't want to do it.

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

Energy begets energy. If you are lazy, you will always be lazy. And if you retire at 60, you will die at 65.

I'm not the kind of guy who wants to basically collect money and do nothing.

I just know when I'm on the sideline, I can't expect somebody to push me out of bounds.

I've never been in charge. I'm just a lazy bastard.

A lot of people in our generation like to make excuses about little things that really don't hinder them from doing what they want to. It always comes down to the work ethic.

Human beings are better and lazier than their rules and instructions.

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.

Men are not really born either hopelessly idle, or preternaturally industrious. They may move in one direction or the other as will or circumstances dictate, but it is open to any man to work.

Your husband is lazy if coffee doesn't keep him awake - even when it's hot and being spilled on him.

I'm not lazy, but I don't have that spur on my ass that most people have, like, "Oh, god. I have to get something out or else my career will be over!" I don't really care if my career is over.

Men are naturally lazy, and require some great stimulus to goad their flagging ambitions and enable them to overcome the inertia which comes from ease and the consciousness of inherited wealth. Whatever lessens in a young man the feeling that he must make his way in the world cripples his chance of success. Poverty has ever been the priceless spur that has goaded man up to his own loaf.

Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.

I'm afraid of being lazy and complacent. I'm afraid of taking myself too seriously.

Men work harder and more readily when they labor on that which is their own.

We can control a few things: our attitude, our effort, our focus and how we go about treating our teammates.

The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.

People would say 'Who is a leader?' A leader is a person that does the work. It's very simple. It's a personal choice for people who choose to put in their time and their commitment to do the work. It's a personal choice.

Encourage members of your team to take the initiative and act on their own.

Don't be a damned ammunition wagon. Be a rifle!