Procrastination Quotes
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. -William James
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. -Don Marquis
Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday. - Unknown
Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back. -Charles Kingsley
Until you value yourself, you will not value your time.
Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. - M. Scott Peck
.Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer. Next day the fatal precedent will plead; thus on, til wisdom is pushed our of life. -Edward Young
If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it. -Olin Miller
There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back. -Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister
It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. -Earl of Chesterfield
The two rules of procrastination: ) Do it today. ) Tomorrow will be today tomorrow. - Unknown
One of the greatest labor-saving inventions of today is tomorrow. -Vincent T. Foss
You may delay, but time will not. -Benjamin Franklin
Someday is not a day of the week. - Unknown
To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing. -Eva Young
Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all. -Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook,
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. -C. Northcote Parkinson,
Procrastination is opportunity's natural assassin. -Victor Kiam
If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it. -Olin Miller
What may be done at any time will be done at no time. -Scottish Proverb
There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to be done around the house. -Joe Ryan
Procrastination is something best put off until tomorrow. -Gerald Vaughan
The best way to get something done is to begin. - Unknown
You know you are getting old when it takes too much effort to procrastinate. - Unknown
I do my work at the same time each day - the last minute. - Unknown
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. -Spanish Proverb
The time to begin most things is ten years ago. -Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook,
Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible. -George Claude Lorimer
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform and mortal men lay hold on heaven. -Edward Young
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. -Mark Twain
Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man. -Jimmy Lyons
A year from now you may wish you had started today. -Karen Lamb
Procrastination is like masturbation. At first it feels good, but in the end you're only screwing yourself. - Unknown
One of these days is none of these days. -Attributed to both Henri Tubach and H.G. Bohn
Procrastination is the thief of time; year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves the vast concerns of an eternal state. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; at fifty chides his infamous delay, pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; in all the magnanimity of thought, resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same. -Edward Young
How soon not now become never. -Martin Luther King Jr.
Indulge in procrastination, and in time yon will come to this, that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can't do it. - Charles Buxton
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday. -Napoleon Hill
Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. -Napoleon Hill
Procrastination is, hands down, our favorite form of self-sabotage. -Alyce P. Cornyn-Selby
Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried. -unknow
Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan. -unknown
We shall never have more time. We have, and have always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going day in and day out. Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs. -Arnold Bennett.
Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy. -Wayne Dyer
Procrastination usually results in sorrowful regret. Today’s duties put off tomorrow give us a double burden to bear; the best way is to do them in their proper time. -Ida Scott Taylor
Procrastination is a sin of lawyers, trial judges, reporters, appellate judges, in brief, everyone connected with the machinery of criminal law. -Macklin Fleming
If and When were planted, and Nothing grew. -Proverb
In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do. The worst thing you can do is nothing. -Theodore Roosevelt
The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started. -Dawson Trotman
If you wait until all the lights are green before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top. -Zig Ziglar.
Even if you’re on the right track-you’ll get run over if you just sit there. -Will Rogers
Doing just a little bit during the time we have available puts you that much further ahead than if you took no action at all. -Byron Pulsifer
Don’t wait for someone to take you under their wing. Find a good wing and climb up underneath it. -Frank C. Bucaro
Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing! -Donald Gardner
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the someday I’ll philosophy. -Denis Waitley
In delay there lies no plenty. -William Shakespeare
Stop talking. Start walking. -L.M. Heroux
Don’t wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations. -Charles Richter
To be always intending to make a new and better life but never find time to set about it is as…to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to next until you’re dead. -Oq Mandino
Waiting is a trap. There will always be reason to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don’t count. -Dr. Robert Anthony
He who hesitates is last. -Mae West
Procrastination is like a credit card: it’s a lot fun until you get the bill. - Christopher Parker
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. -Sally Berger
We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it? -The Buddha
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday and avoiding today. -Wayne Dyer
When there is a hill to climb, don’t think that waiting will make it smaller. - Unknown
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. -Lord Chesterfield
Begin while other are procrastinating. Work while others are wishing. -William Arthur Ward
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. - Anne Frank
Don’t procrastination. Putting off an unpleasant task until tomorrow simply give you more time for your imagination to make a mountain out a possible molehill. More time for anxiety to sap your self-confidence. Do it now, brother, do it now. - Unknown
Initiative – take it, rather than procrastinate. -Catherine Pulsifer
I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work. -Pearl S. Buck
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. - Abraham Lincoln
Procrastination is a way for us to be satisfied with second-rate results; we can always tell ourselves we'd have done a better job if only we'd had more time. If you're good at rationaliziing, you can keep yourself feeling rather satisfied this way, but it's a cheap happy. You're whittling your expectations of yourself down lower and lower. - Richard O'Conner
You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good. -Jerry West (LA Lakers).
Yesterday is a cancelled cheque. Tomorrow is a promissory note. Today is the only cash you have, so spend it wisely. -Kim Lyons.
Don't wait for your ship to come in, and feel angry and cheated when it doesn't. Get going with something small. -Irene Kassorla.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible. -Robert Schuller.
Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow! -Don Herold.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. -Jerome K. Jerome (Three Men in a Boat, ).
I'm going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow! -Sam Levenson.
Procrastination is my sin. It brings me naught but sorrow. I know that I should stop it. In fact, I will - tomorrow! -Gloria Pitzer
Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started. -David Allen.
The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They're full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too. -Norman Vincent Peale.
Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. -Dale Carnegie.
Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it. -Miguel De Cervantes.
When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice. -William James.
What can be done at any time is never done at all. -English Proverb
Postpone not a good action. - Irish Proverb
Anger is the only thing to put off till tomorrow. - Slovakian proverb
Every thing in human character goes to wreck, under the reign of procrastination, while prompt action gives to all things a corresponding and proportional life and energy. - William A. Alcott
No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare. - Charles Baudelaire
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live. - General Omar Bradley
Procrastination has robbed us of too many opportunities. - Sarah Ban Breathnach
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity. - Jean de La Bruyère
Procrastination is the seed of self destruction. - Matthew Burton
You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. -Martin Luther King Jr.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon – instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today. - Dale Carnegie
By the streets of 'by and by,' one arrives at the house of 'never'. - Miguel De Cervantes
Faith in to-morrow, instead of Christ, is Satan's nurse for man's perdition. -George B. Cheever
The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to a close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences. -Winston Churchill
My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season. -Mary Todd Lincoln
Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both. - John Andrew Holms
How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time. -Fred Brooks
I love deadlines. Especially the whooshing sound they make as they pass by. - Douglas Adams
The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day. -Abraham Lincoln
Time wasted is existence; used is life. - Edward Young
If we accept and internalize the fact of our own mortality, then, by definition, we have to deal with the essential questions of how we live and spend our allotted time. We have to stop procrastinating, pretending that we have forever to do what we want to do and be what we long to be. - Surya Das
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. -Walt Disney
Watching for things to appreciate and expressing that appreciation immediately benefits both our relationships and us. It is taking care of business on a daily basis so that we have a better chance of not having a lot of unfinished business when we least expect it. - Gail Pursell Elliott
Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. - Benjamin Franklin
Delay is as hateful as it is dangerous. -Thomas Holcroft
So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late. -Lee Iacocca
You must not procrastinate. Rather, you should make preparations so that even if you did die tonight, you would have no regrets. If you develop an appreciation for the uncertainty and imminence of death, your sense of the importance of using your time wisely will get stronger and stronger. -Dalai Lama
Those who are late will be punished by life itself. - Mikhail Gorbachev
Perhaps the most valuable result of al education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. - Thomas Huxley
To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring the enjoyment; so that to be idle or industrious, vicious or virtuous, is but with a view of procrastinating the one or the other. - Benjamin Robert Haydon
The dread of doing a task uses up more time and energy than doing the task itself. -Rita Emmett
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. -Sydney Harris
The trouble is that you think you have time. - Jack Kornfield
Procrastination is the kidnapper of souls and the recruiting-officer of hell. - Edward Irving
....who waits until circumstances completely favor his undertaking, will never accomplish anything. - Martin Luther
By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there's no more future left for them. - Robert L'Estrange
He who awaits much can expect little. - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. - Mark Twain
There is no dallying with God . - James Usher
Do or do not do. There is no try. - Master Yoda
If you have goals and procrastination you have nothing. If you have goals and you take action, you will have anything you want. -Thomas J. Vilord
Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things. - Miyamoto Musashi
Procrastination has been called a thief,--the thief of time. I wish it were no worse than a thief. It is a murderer; and that which it kills is not time merely, but the immortal soul. -William Nevins
Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded. - Sandra Day O'Connor
The next day is never so good as the day before. -Syrus
He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. - Horace
Avoid delays: procrastination always does harm. -Lucanus
Unhappy he who does this work adjourn, And to to morrow would the search delay: His lazy morrow will be like to day. But is one day of ease too much to borrow ? Yes, sure: for yesterday was once to morrow. -Perseus
Nothing so perilous as procrastination -John Lyly
In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it. -Charles Baudelaire
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. -Benjamin Franklin
Lose this day loitering; t'will be the same old story tomorrow, and the next day more dilatory … Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. -Thomas Jefferson
If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act. -Lee Iacocca
It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up - that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had. -Elizabeth Kǔbler-Ross
Time destroyed Is suicide, where more than blood is spilt. -Edward Young
He who begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin. -Horace
If I am not for myself, who is for me? When I am for myself, what am I? If not now, when? -Rabbi Hillel
He who puts off nothing till tomorrow has done a great deal. -Baltasar Graci
Do not put your work off till to-morrow and the day after; for a sluggish worker does not fill his barn, nor one who puts off his work: industry makes work go well, but a man who puts off work is always at hand-grips with ruin. -Hesiod
The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false. - Johann Kaspar Lavater
Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment. -Robert Benchley
Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with. It is the only decent way to live. -M. Scott Peck
Delay is the deadliest form of denial. -C. Northcote Parkinson
Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind -Sir Isaac Pitman
Often just by taking action, by doing something about the situation can relieve the stress and help correct the situation. -Catherine Pulsifer
Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow. -James A. Michener
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today. -Mignon McLaughlin
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing so futile. -Bertrand Russell
Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heav'n invites, Hell threatens -Edward Young
Deliberando saepe perit occasio [The opportunity often slips away while we deliberate on it]. -Syrus
Time drinketh up the essence of every great and noble action, which ought to be performed, and is delayed in the execution. -Vishnu Sarma
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it. -Quintillain
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -Seneca
Defer no time; delays have dangerous ends. -William Shakespeare
Our greatest actions, or of good or evil, The hero's and the murderer's spring at once From their conception: O! how many deeds Of deathless virtue and immortal crime The world had wanted, had the actor said, I will do this to-morrow. -John Russell
Depression turned my body, mind and soul into concrete; procrastination turned my heart into a block of dirty ice. -Dolly Sen
Lingering labors come to naught. -Robert Southwell
The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large. -Henry Wheelter Shaw
Delay not till tomorrow to be wise; tomorrow's sun to thee may neve rise. -William Congreve
It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish. -J. R. R. Tolkien
When you say, Wait a moment, you are bound by your karma; when you say Yes I will, you are free. -Shunryu Suzuki
The habit of always putting off an experience until you can afford it, or until the time is right, or until you know how to do it is one of the greatest burglars of joy. Be deliberate, but once you've made up your mind--jump in. -Charles R. Swindoll
Kabeer, that which you have to do tomorrow - do it today instead; and that which you have to do now - do it immediately! Later on, you will not be able to do anything, when death hangs over your head. - Bhagat Kabeer Ji
In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful -Marcus Tullius Cicero
If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin. -Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed. -Archbishop John Tillotson
I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument, while the song I came to sing remains unsung. -Rabindranath Tagore
During a very busy life I have often been asked, How did you manage to do it all? The answer is very simple. It is because I did everything promptly. -Richard Tangye
Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary. -William Shakespeare
Think of all the years passed by in which you said to yourself I'll do it tomorrow, and how the gods have again and again granted you periods of grace of which you have not availed yourself. It is time to realize that you are a member of the Universe, that you are born of Nature itself, and to know that a limit has been set to your time. Use every moment wisely, to perceive your inner refulgence, or 'twill be gone and nevermore within your reach. -Marcus Aurelius (Meditations, .)
There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to be done around the house. -Joe Ryan
The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up. - Unknown
If it weren't for the last minute, I wouldn't get anything done. - Unknown