procrastination

1.

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

- Trotman, Dawson

2.

Never put off today what you can put off tomorrow.

- Proverb, Spanish

3.

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

4.

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

5.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

- Earl of Chesterfield

6.

Manana is often the busiest day of the week.

- Proverb, Spanish

7.

Begin to weave and God will give the thread.

- Proverb, German

8.

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

9.

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

- Mary Todd Lincoln

10.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

- Edward Young

11.

How soon not now, becomes never.

- Luther, Martin

12.

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

- Lonmer, George H.

13.

Tear thyself from delay.

- Horace

14.

He who awaits much can expect little.

- Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

15.

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

- Deming, W. Edwards

16.

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

- Acton, Lord

17.

When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish-it is then that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

18.

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.

- Thomas De Quincey

19.

Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.

20.

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.