Motivational Quotes

Procrastination

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

- Turgenev, Ivan

Best Quotes about Procrastination

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish-it is then that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

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

Pitzer, Gloria

Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Miller, Olin

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

Acton, Lord

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

10.

Tear thyself from delay.

Horace

11.

He who awaits much can expect little.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

12.

He who hesitates is probably right.

Bogovich

13.

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

14.

He who hesitates is last.

West, Mae

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.

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

Tolkien, J. R.

17.

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

18.

Procrastination is opportunity's natural assassin.

Kiam, Victor

19.

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

George, David Lloyd

20.

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

Deming, W. Edwards

21.

How soon not now, becomes never.

Luther, Martin

22.

He who begins and does not finish loves their pains.

Proverb

23.

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

Collier, Robert

24.

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

Hill, Napoleon

25.

All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.

26.

One of these days, is none of these days.

Proverb

27.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

The best labor saving device is doing it tomorrow

29.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

30.

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

31.

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

Richter, Charles

32.

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

33.

Begin to weave and God will give the thread.

Proverb, German

34.

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

Gardner, Donald

35.

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

Trotman, Dawson

36.

All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.

Syrus, Publilius

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Bucaro, Frank C.

40.

Manana is often the busiest day of the week.

Proverb, Spanish

41.

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

42.

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

Billings, Josh

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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.

44.

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

Lonmer, George H.

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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

46.

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

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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

48.

Never put off today what you can put off tomorrow.

Proverb, Spanish

49.

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.

50.

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

Gracian, Baltasar