Motivational Quotes

Procrastination

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Procrastination

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

Never put off today what you can put off tomorrow.

Proverb, Spanish

When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish-it is then that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

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

Pitzer, Gloria

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

Bucaro, Frank C.

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

How soon not now, becomes never.

Luther, Martin

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

Deming, W. Edwards

All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.

Syrus, Publilius

10.

He who awaits much can expect little.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

11.

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

Richter, Charles

12.

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

Lonmer, George H.

13.

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

Turgenev, Ivan

14.

Tear thyself from delay.

Horace

15.

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

Tolkien, J. R.

16.

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

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All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.

18.

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

19.

Procrastination is opportunity's natural assassin.

Kiam, Victor

20.

If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can everything.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

22.

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

Proverb

23.

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

24.

Manana is often the busiest day of the week.

Proverb, Spanish

25.

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.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

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

Miller, Henry

28.

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

Miller, Olin

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

Hill, Napoleon

30.

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

31.

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.

32.

Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

33.

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

Billings, Josh

34.

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

Acton, Lord

35.

One of these days, is none of these days.

Proverb

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The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started.

Trotman, Dawson

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My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.

Lincoln, Mary Todd

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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

39.

He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner.

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

The best labor saving device is doing it tomorrow

41.

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

Collier, Robert

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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

43.

He who begins and does not finish loves their pains.

Proverb

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

Gardner, Donald

45.

He who hesitates is last.

West, Mae

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Delay is the deadliest form of denial.