Best Quotes About Procrastination (Top 48)
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A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.
Hunter S. Thompson
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You may delay, but time will not.
Benjamin Franklin
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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Pablo Picasso
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You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. What mood is that? Last-minute panic.
Bill Watterson
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Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.
Charles Dickens
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Lost time is never found again.
Benjamin Franklin
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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.
Haile Selassie
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Action expresses priorities.
Mahatma Gandhi
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If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
Rita Mae Brown
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It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.
Hugh Laurie
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If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!
Jackie Collins
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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Abraham Lincoln
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Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
Alexander Graham Bell
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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.
Lee Iacocca
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Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Don Marquis
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
Wayne Gretzky
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Why not seize the pleasure at once? — How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
Jane Austen
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Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
Benjamin Franklin
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Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.
David Allen
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Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
Jawaharlal Nehru
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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.
Robert Benchley
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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.
Denis Waitley
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The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic, self-loathing, and soul-crushing inadequacy. And that's on a good day.
Robert De Niro
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Delay is the deadliest form of denial.
C. Northcote Parkinson
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
Quintilian
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Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
Horace
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Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.
Julia Cameron
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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How soon 'not now' becomes 'never'.
Martin Luther
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There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.
David Lloyd George
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Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.
Christopher Parker
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Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
Victor Kiam
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How does a project get to be a year late? One day at a time.
Fred Brooks
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If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
Thomas de Quincey
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I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
E. V. Lucas
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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.
Don Herold
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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.
Napoleon Hill
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The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.
Abraham Lincoln
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Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence, as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination .
Dan Miller
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In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it.
Charles Baudelaire
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We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.
Arnold Bennett
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Fear stops a lot of people. Fear of failure, of the unknown, of risk.
And it masks itself as procrastination.
Lisa Anderson
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Delay not till tomorrow to be wise; tomorrow's sun to thee may neve rise.
William Congreve
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Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
Lord Chesterfield
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Procrastination is the thief of time.
Edward Young
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Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene
Edward Young
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Procrastination usually results in sorrowful regret. Today's duties put off until tomorrow give us a double burden to bear; the best way is to do them in their proper time.
Ida Scott Taylor
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Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
Benjamin Franklin