Procrastination Quotes · Page 31

By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there's no more future left for them.

— Roger L'Estrange

“Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Make it matter, as if it is your last.”

— Anthon St. Maarten

“Meditate, Ānanda, do not delay, or else you will regret it later. This is our instruction to you.”

— Gautama Buddha

Tomorrow, the busiest day of the week. I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating.

— Elle Varner

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

— Jules Renard

The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

“TV demands so little of us. It anesthetizes our worried minds and breeds mental laziness.”

— Steve Whigham

There is sometimes only a very fine line between deliberation and procrastination.

— Paul Allen Walker

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute;…

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic,…

— Robert De Niro

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have…

— Anonymous

“Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure…

— M. Scott Peck

“I can procrastinate thinking about my procrastination problem. I can procrastinate dealing with my problem of procrastinating thinking about my procrastination problem.”

— Anonymous

Clear, written goals have a wonderful effect on your thinking. They motivate you and galvanize you into action. They stimulate your creativity,…

— Brian Tracy

The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

An idle man has a constant tendency to torpidity. He has adopted the Indian maxim that it is better to walk than…

— Richard Cecil

Replace your laziness with action and effort, replace your fear with determination and enjoy an eventful life.

— Anil Sinha

Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.

— Horace

“If you always do what is easy and choose the path of least resistance, you never step outside your comfort zone. Great…

— Roy Bennett

I swing between procrastination and being really thorough so either way things aren't getting done quickly.

— Freema Agyeman

“The inescapable contrariety between 'being a perfectionist' and 'being a procrastinator' is never actually perceived by someone who procrastinates.”

— Mrityunjay Dixit

“Don't let procrastination take over your life. Be brave and take risks. Your life is happening right now.”

— Roy Bennett

Tempted to type meaningless twaddle all the time on Twitter...with alliteration, no less!

— Anonymous

Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

My purpose had accidents-My motivation has delays-My mistakes were misguided-My ambition still remains

— C-DASH

Laziness works. And the simple way to incorporate its health benefits into your life is simply to take a nap.

— Tom Hodgkinson

“As long as the postponement lasts he will be in a false position. He will be silent when he ought to speak…

— C.S. Lewis

So much of life [is] a putting-off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing [is] ever lost by delay.

— Graham Greene

There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of…

— Samuel Johnson

“Time always wins; our victories are only delays; but delays are sweet, and a delay can last a whole lifetime.”

— Rebecca Solnit

Don't wait and procrastinate. Handle the situation before the situation handles you.

— Anonymous

“we don’t have trouble overcoming procrastination because we’re weak, but because it is duplicitous.”

— Hillary Rettig

Delay is definitely not denying and prayers are answered in different ways at different time that is beneficial to our needs.

— Kemmy Nola Http://wwwamoreloveforlifecom

“Dream big as you can and shoot for the stars, but get started even if its small baby steps, they count!”

— Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he…

— Horace

“Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.”

— Jules Renard

[Every] hour of delay abates the fame and force of the invader, and multiplies the resources of defensive war.

— Edward Gibbon

Delays are as much a part of God plan as answered prayers. God wants you to trust him.

— Rick Warren

Not doing things you can do is the whole point of laziness. Not doing something you can't do is just sensible.

— Sarah Rees Brennan

“Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.”

— Robert H. Schuller