The best Quotes by Shikamaru Nara

Laziness is the mother of all bad habits. But ultimately she is a mother and we should respect her!

You would think just this once, when it was life or death, I could pull through.

Sometimes I wish I was just a cloud, just floating along.

It's not because I'm lazy, it's just because I don't care.

I could say I'm not sad, but I'd be lying. The problem is the world won't let me stay a kid forever, so I can't lie around crying about it either.

It's stupid to talk about things you're not. Be yourself and you'll be fine.

How many times do I have to tell you? The first move is always a feint.

There's no advantage to hurrying through life.

Sometimes I wish I was just a cloud, floating along.

He turned a room full of strangers into a room full of enemies with just one sentence.

Someday, I just want to marry a regular girl who isn't too ugly and not too pretty. Have two children, first a girl, then a boy. Retire after my daughter is married and my son becomes a successful ninja, and spend the rest of my life playing shōgi or Go. Then die of old age before my wife.

Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.

Justice comes from vengeance but justice only breeds more vengeance.

In this world, wherever there is light - there are also shadows. As long as the concept of winners exists, there must also be losers. The selfish desire of wanting to maintain peace causes wars, and hatred is born to protect love.

People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true. That's how they define reality. But what does it mean to be correct or true? Merely vague concepts. Their reality may all be a mirage. Can we consider them to simply be living in their own world, shaped by their beliefs?

As long as there is love, there will be hatred.

I'm telling you this because you don't get it. You think you get it, which is not the same as actually getting it. Get it?

Failing doesn't give you a reason to give up as long as you believe

if you get lost
in the dark,
find your way using
other peoples light

The hole in one's heart gets filled by others around you. Friends won't flock to someone who abandons the memory of his friends and gives up on the world just because things don't go the way he wants them to. That won't help fill the hole in your heart. And people won't help those who run away and do nothing. As long as you don't give up, there will always be salvation.

Those who don't follow the rules are trash. But, those who abandon their friends are even worse than trash.

No one cared who I was until I put on a mask.

I taught you that in order to control people, you need to use the darkness in their hearts.

You know how the game of chess is played. Pieces must be sacrificed!

Sorry I'm late guys, a black cat crossed my path so I had to go the long way.

If love is just a word, then why does it hurt so much if you realize it isn't there?

Those who forgive themselves, and are able to accept their true nature... they are the strong ones.

The longer you live the more you realize that reality is just made of pain, suffering and emptiness.

Wake up to reality! Nothing ever goes as planned in this world. The longer you live, the more you realize that in this reality only pain, suffering and futility exist.

Naruto. There'll be plenty of hard and painful times ahead. Take care of yourself! Make sure to have dreams... and the confidence to make those dreams come true!

Anybody who called me tomato... well, I just turned them into smashed tomatoes. That's how I got my other nickname: The Red-Hot Habanero!

White Zetsu: "When you're sad and alone…"
Black Zetsu: "...the only one you can count on is yourself."

A hero is not the one who never falls. He is the one that who gets up, again and again, never losing sights of his dreams.

My ambition is handicapped by laziness.

You know you're alive if you feel pain.

Those who do not understand true pain can never understand true peace.

The moment people come to know love, they run the risk of carrying hate.

When you have a connection to a friend... friendship can change the world in unbelievable ways.

It's human nature not to realize the true value of something unless they lose it.

People's lives don't end when they die. It ends when they lose faith.

Life's only beautiful because it's so fleeting, so transient.

I was not born with a whole lot of natural talent, not gifted like Neji. But I work hard and I never give up. That is my gift, that is my ninja way!

Pain allows people to grow - and how you grow is up to you.

One day I'd like to become something precious to others.

A smile is the easiest way out of a difficult situation.

Your words cut deep, deeper than any blade.

Neither of us have any sort of luck, do we? You keep the world at bay… but I keep you at bay.

A weapon can either be strong or weak, depending on the ability of person who is using it. An expert with a pebble can still beat a novice with a shuriken.

Without knowing where you really want to go… Having a grace period like that isn't so bad. But if that's all you end up doing, you'll come up against barriers that you won't be able to break.

We fight believing in our own justice. But if the enemy is doing the same thing, who's right?