Motivational Quotes

Procrastination

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

- Miller, Olin

Best Quotes about Procrastination

He who begins and does not finish loves their pains.

Proverb

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

Richter, Charles

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.

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

Miller, Henry

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

Trotman, Dawson

Never put off today what you can put off tomorrow.

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

Lincoln, Mary Todd

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

10.

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

Deming, W. Edwards

11.

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

Pitzer, Gloria

12.

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Billings, Josh

14.

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

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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

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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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One of these days, is none of these days.

Proverb

18.

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

19.

He who hesitates is last.

West, Mae

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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

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Procrastination is opportunity's natural assassin.

Kiam, Victor

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All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Tolkien, J. R.

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He who hesitates is probably right.

Bogovich

25.

Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

27.

The best labor saving device is doing it tomorrow

28.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

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

Bucaro, Frank C.

30.

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

Miller, Olin

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Begin to weave and God will give the thread.

Proverb, German

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Manana is often the busiest day of the week.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Collier, Robert

34.

How soon not now, becomes never.

Luther, Martin

35.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Lonmer, George H.

37.

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

George, David Lloyd

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Tear thyself from delay.

Horace

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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

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

Bible

41.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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.

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

Proverb

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Gracian, Baltasar

46.

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

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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

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

Gardner, Donald

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He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hill, Napoleon