Motivational Quotes

Procrastination

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

- Gracian, Baltasar

Best Quotes about Procrastination

1.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

Miller, Olin

5.

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

6.

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.

7.

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

Miller, Henry

8.

He who awaits much can expect little.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

9.

Begin to weave and God will give the thread.

Proverb, German

10.

The best labor saving device is doing it tomorrow

11.

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

12.

He who begins and does not finish loves their pains.

Proverb

13.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

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

Billings, Josh

15.

Never put off today what you can put off tomorrow.

Proverb, Spanish

16.

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

Hill, Napoleon

17.

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

Turgenev, Ivan

18.

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

Trotman, Dawson

19.

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

Pitzer, Gloria

20.

Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

21.

All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.

22.

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

Collier, Robert

23.

He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner.

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

Procrastination is opportunity's natural assassin.

Kiam, Victor

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

George, David Lloyd

27.

Tear thyself from delay.

Horace

28.

How soon not now, becomes never.

Luther, Martin

29.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

30.

Manana is often the busiest day of the week.

Proverb, Spanish

31.

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

32.

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

Bucaro, Frank C.

33.

All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.

Syrus, Publilius

34.

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.

35.

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

Hill, Napoleon

36.

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

37.

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

Deming, W. Edwards

38.

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

Richter, Charles

39.

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

Proverb

40.

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

Lonmer, George H.

41.

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

Acton, Lord

42.

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.

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

Gardner, Donald

44.

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

Lincoln, Mary Todd

45.

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

Tolkien, J. R.

46.

One of these days, is none of these days.

Proverb

47.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

48.

He who hesitates is last.

West, Mae

49.

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

50.

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