Being lazy will make you poor, but hard work will make you rich.

No matter how much a lazy person may want something, he will never get it. A hard worker will get everything he wants.

A shrewd servant will gain authority over a master's worthless son and receive a part of the inheritance.

Show me someone who does a good job, and I will show you someone who is better than most and worthy of the company of kings.

Jeroboam was an able young man, and when Solomon noticed how hard he worked, he put him in charge of all the forced labor in the territory of the tribes of Manasseh and Ephraim.

When the people of Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned from Egypt, they invited him to a meeting of the people and made him king of Israel. Only the tribe of Judah remained loyal to David's descendants.

If you are lazy, you will never get what you are after, but if you work hard, you will get a fortune.

Go ahead and be lazy; sleep on, but you will go hungry.

Lazy people who refuse to work are only killing themselves;

all they do is think about what they would like to have. The righteous, however, can give, and give generously.

Lazy people stay at home; they say a lion might get them if they go outside.

I walked through the fields and vineyards of a lazy, stupid person.

I looked at this, thought about it, and learned a lesson from it:

but while you are asleep, poverty will attack you like an armed robber.

Why don't lazy people ever get out of the house? What are they afraid of ? Lions?

Some people are too lazy to put food in their own mouths.