Motivational Quotes

Procrastination

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

- Deming, W. Edwards

Best Quotes about Procrastination

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

Deming, W. Edwards

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Richter, Charles

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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

Bucaro, Frank C.

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

He who hesitates is last.

West, Mae

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

Trotman, Dawson

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

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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.

11.

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

Acton, Lord

12.

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

Tolkien, J. R.

13.

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

14.

How soon not now, becomes never.

Luther, Martin

15.

The best labor saving device is doing it tomorrow

16.

Tear thyself from delay.

Horace

17.

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

Lincoln, Mary Todd

18.

When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish-it is then that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

19.

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

Lonmer, George H.

20.

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

21.

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

Bible

22.

He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner.

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

He who begins and does not finish loves their pains.

Proverb

24.

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

Gardner, Donald

25.

He who hesitates is probably right.

Bogovich

26.

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

Proverb

27.

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

Billings, Josh

28.

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

29.

Manana is often the busiest day of the week.

Proverb, Spanish

30.

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

31.

Procrastination is opportunity's natural assassin.

Kiam, Victor

32.

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

Collier, Robert

33.

Begin to weave and God will give the thread.

Proverb, German

34.

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

35.

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

Miller, Henry

36.

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

37.

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

Pitzer, Gloria

38.

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

39.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

40.

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

41.

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

Dyer, Wayne

42.

Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

43.

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

Miller, Olin

44.

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

Hill, Napoleon

45.

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

46.

He who awaits much can expect little.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

47.

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

48.

All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.

Syrus, Publilius

49.

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

George, David Lloyd

50.

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