Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi

• laziness

Of all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes it with so silent, yet so baneful a tooth, as indolence. Thomas Jefferson

• laziness

Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect. Leonardo da Vinci

• laziness

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it. Benjamin Franklin

• laziness

Too many vacations that last too long, too many movies, too much TV, too much video game playing - too much undisciplined leisure time in which a person continually takes the course of least resistance gradually wastes a life. It ensures that a person's capacities stay dormant, that talents remain undeveloped, that the mind and spirit become lethargic and that the heart remains unfulfilled. Stephen Covey

• rest
• leisure
• laziness
• discipline

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Doing less meaningless work, so that you can focus on things of greater personal importance, is NOT laziness. This is hard for most people to accept, because our [America] culture tends to reward personal sacrifice instead of personal productivity. Timothy Ferriss

• priorities
• laziness
• sacrifice

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If you have two choices, choose the harder. If you’re trying to decide whether to go out running or sit home and watch TV, go running. Probably the reason this trick works so well is that when you have two choices and one is harder, the only reason you’re even considering the other is laziness. You know in the back of your mind what’s the right thing to do, and this trick merely forces you to acknowledge it. Paul Graham

• laziness

The only undignified job I know of is loafing, and nothing can cheapen a man who sponges instead of hunting any sort of work, because he's as cheap already as they can be made. George Horace Lorimer

• laziness

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It is not necessary for a man to be actively bad in order to make a failure in life; simple inaction will accomplish it. Nature has everywhere written her protest against idleness; everything which ceases to struggle, which remains inactive, rapidly deteriorates. It is a struggle toward an ideal, the constant effort to get higher and further, which develops manhood and character. James Terry White

• self improvement
• laziness

All bad qualities develop one degree after another. The slothful man becomes lazy one soft choice after another. He may lie in bed only one minute after his alarm goes off. One minute, that is almost nothing. Tomorrow it may be only one minute more. Slowly, those minutes add up. Two months from now, he may be lying in bed for an hour after his alarm rings. It is only a little sleep. It is only a little slumber. It is only a little folding of the hands to rest. One degree at a time, the once-diligent man becomes a sloth. Bob Schultz

• laziness