Motivational Quotes

Procrastination

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

- Lincoln, Mary Todd

Best Quotes about Procrastination

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

Tolkien, J. R.

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

Gardner, Donald

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

Lonmer, George H.

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

Proverb

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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

Turgenev, Ivan

When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish-it is then that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

One of these days, is none of these days.

Proverb

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

Collier, Robert

10.

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

Bible

11.

He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

Dyer, Wayne

13.

The best labor saving device is doing it tomorrow

14.

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

Acton, Lord

15.

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

Hill, Napoleon

16.

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

17.

He who hesitates is probably right.

Bogovich

18.

Tear thyself from delay.

Horace

19.

He who hesitates is last.

West, Mae

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Miller, Henry

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Miller, Olin

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

30.

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

31.

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.

32.

How soon not now, becomes never.

Luther, Martin

33.

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

Trotman, Dawson

34.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

35.

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

Bucaro, Frank C.

36.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

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

38.

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

Hill, Napoleon

39.

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

Deming, W. Edwards

40.

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.

41.

All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.

Syrus, Publilius

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.

Procrastination is opportunity's natural assassin.

Kiam, Victor

44.

Begin to weave and God will give the thread.

Proverb, German

45.

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

Richter, Charles

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

47.

He who awaits much can expect little.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

48.

Manana is often the busiest day of the week.

Proverb, Spanish

49.

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

50.

Never put off today what you can put off tomorrow.

Proverb, Spanish