Motivational Quotes

Procrastination

He who begins and does not finish loves their pains.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Procrastination

He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner.

Franklin, Benjamin

There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.

George, David Lloyd

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

Dyer, Wayne

Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don't count.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

Manana is often the busiest day of the week.

Proverb, Spanish

Procrastination is my sin. It brings me naught but sorrow. I know that I should stop it. In fact, I will--tomorrow!

Pitzer, Gloria

How soon not now, becomes never.

Luther, Martin

Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing!

Gardner, Donald

All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.

10.

We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.

Seneca

11.

Don't wait for someone to take you under their wing. Find a good wing and climb up underneath it.

Bucaro, Frank C.

12.

If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.

Peale, Norman Vincent

13.

It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish.

Tolkien, J. R.

14.

When a man does a household job, he goes through three periods: contemplating how it will be done; contemplating when it will be done; and contemplating.

Cox, Marcelene

15.

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

Acton, Lord

16.

One of these days, is none of these days.

Proverb

17.

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 a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.

Waitley, Denis

18.

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

Gracian, Baltasar

19.

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.

Tangye, Richard

20.

If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem... break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.

Collier, Robert

21.

I remember reading somewhere about an organization called Procrastinators Anonymous. I think they had been in existence for some years but had never gotten around to having a meeting.

22.

If you wait until the wind and the weather are just right, you will never plant anything and never harvest anything.

Bible

23.

He who hesitates is probably right.

Bogovich

24.

... if we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.

Turgenev, Ivan

25.

Tear thyself from delay.

Horace

26.

Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

27.

Procrastination is opportunity's natural assassin.

Kiam, Victor

28.

The best labor saving device is doing it tomorrow

29.

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.

Borges, Jorge Luis

30.

When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish-it is then that you must not hesitate.

Hammarskjold, Dag

31.

Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

32.

Elijah went before the people and said, How long will you waver between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him. But the people said nothing. [1 Kings 18:21]

Bible

33.

Don't put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today.

Billings, Josh

34.

We hate delays by others, but sometimes it makes us wise.

Proverb

35.

Never put off today what you can put off tomorrow.

Proverb, Spanish

36.

He who awaits much can expect little.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

37.

Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard one makes it impossible.

Lonmer, George H.

38.

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

Selassie, Haile

39.

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

Hill, Napoleon

40.

Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.

Richter, Charles

41.

Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.

Miller, Henry

42.

All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.

Syrus, Publilius

43.

No age or time of life, no position or circumstance, has a monopoly on success. Any age is the right age to start doing!

Gerard, Ralph

44.

If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.

Miller, Olin

45.

You may delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again.

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

There are those of us who are always about to live. We are waiting until things change, until there is more time, until we are less tired, until we get a promotion, until we settle down -- until, until, until. It always seems as if there is some major event that must occur in our lives before we begin living.

Sheehan, George

47.

He who hesitates is last.

West, Mae

48.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

Hill, Napoleon

49.

He who begins and does not finish loves their pains.

Proverb

50.

The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.