Motivational Quotes

Procrastination

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

Best Quotes about Procrastination

How soon not now, becomes never.

Luther, Martin

Tear thyself from delay.

Horace

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

Begin to weave and God will give the thread.

Proverb, German

The best labor saving device is doing it tomorrow

Manana is often the busiest day of the week.

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.

10.

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

Miller, Olin

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Acton, Lord

14.

He who hesitates is probably right.

Bogovich

15.

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

Deming, W. Edwards

16.

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

Hill, Napoleon

17.

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.

18.

One of these days, is none of these days.

Proverb

19.

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

Bucaro, Frank C.

20.

He who begins and does not finish loves their pains.

Proverb

21.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

22.

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

23.

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

Turgenev, Ivan

24.

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

Proverb

25.

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

Lincoln, Mary Todd

26.

Never put off today what you can put off tomorrow.

Proverb, Spanish

27.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner.

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.

Syrus, Publilius

30.

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

Tolkien, J. R.

31.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

32.

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

Trotman, Dawson

33.

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

34.

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

Dyer, Wayne

35.

He who awaits much can expect little.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

36.

He who hesitates is last.

West, Mae

37.

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

Richter, Charles

38.

Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

39.

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

40.

Procrastination is opportunity's natural assassin.

Kiam, Victor

41.

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.

42.

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

Pitzer, Gloria

43.

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

Miller, Henry

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Bible

47.

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

Gardner, Donald

48.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

49.

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