Motivational Quotes

Procrastination

Procrastination is opportunity's natural assassin.

- Kiam, Victor

Best Quotes about Procrastination

1.

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

Deming, W. Edwards

2.

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

3.

Procrastination is opportunity's natural assassin.

Kiam, Victor

4.

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

5.

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

Miller, Olin

6.

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

Hill, Napoleon

7.

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

Turgenev, Ivan

8.

All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.

9.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

10.

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

Lincoln, Mary Todd

11.

Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

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

Hill, Napoleon

15.

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

16.

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

Bucaro, Frank C.

17.

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

Acton, Lord

18.

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

Proverb

19.

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

20.

How soon not now, becomes never.

Luther, Martin

21.

He who awaits much can expect little.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

22.

One of these days, is none of these days.

Proverb

23.

Manana is often the busiest day of the week.

Proverb, Spanish

24.

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

Trotman, Dawson

25.

He who hesitates is last.

West, Mae

26.

Begin to weave and God will give the thread.

Proverb, German

27.

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

Collier, Robert

28.

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

Gardner, Donald

29.

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

30.

All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.

Syrus, Publilius

31.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

He who hesitates is probably right.

Bogovich

33.

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

34.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

35.

Never put off today what you can put off tomorrow.

Proverb, Spanish

36.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

37.

Tear thyself from delay.

Horace

38.

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

Pitzer, Gloria

39.

The best labor saving device is doing it tomorrow

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Tolkien, J. R.

43.

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

Bible

44.

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

45.

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.

46.

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

Billings, Josh

47.

He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner.

Franklin, Benjamin

48.

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