Procrastination Quotes · Page 34

I have a problem with procrastination. I have a great deal of difficulty deciding what to wear. It's a woman thing.

— Lauryn Hill

Delayed gratification is the one thing we ignore these days. And if you delay it, it becomes more pleasurable later in life.

— Greg Gutfeld

Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.

— Robert Half

“Busyness is no different from laziness when it doesn’t lead you to accomplish anything.”

— Chris Bailey

I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“The men who will act today and the men who will act tomorrow get beaten by the men who acts now.”

— Amit Kalantri

“The delay that Weizenbaum named, between an effort to achieve something and its realization, is the essence of being human.”

— Joshua Cooper Ramo

Procrastinating, fighting and avoiding will only make it more difficult. The way out is to get it done.

— Ralph Marston

Procrastination, as it may be applied to Gospel principles, is the thief of eternal life - which is life in the presence…

— Joseph Fielding Smith

Face troubles from their birth, for 'tis too late to cure When long delay has given the evil strength. Haste then; postpone…

— Ovid

Procrastination comes in two types. Some of us procrastinate in order to pursue restful activities - spending time in bed, watching TV…

— Daniel Levitin

The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we…

— Anonymous

“If you fail to believe you will procrastinate or become idealustic about how awesome you are at working hard and managing your…

— David McRaney

The cause of laziness is physiological; it is an infirmity of the constitution, and its victim is as much to be pitied…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put…

— Lord Chesterfield

The precise laziness is akin to letting your eyes blur or glimpsing what's at the corners in peripheral vision. Or those moments…

— Dawn Lundy Martin

“Some people are ants by nature; they have to work, even when it’s useless. Few people have a talent for constructive laziness.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

Patience is not procrastination, it is that you have done your best and left the rest to God.

— Anonymous

I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

— Denzel Washington

Laziness is the mother of all bad habbits but ultimately she is a MOTHER and we should respect her.

— MJ Korvan

If you wait too long for the perfect moment, the perfect moment will pass you by.

— Pacifiersucker

“Manny, what are you doing working in auto parts?” “Resting. My ambition is handicapped by laziness.”

— Charles Bukowski

“Idle to pretend that we have lost paradise. We never had it; it is still to make.”

— Susan Ertz

“For instinct dictates our duty and the intellect supplies us with pretexts for evading it.”

— Marcel Proust

Procrastination is One of those Excuses, Born of Fear, that we Use to Keep Ourselves Stuck

— Wayne Dyer

Photo of boy with white dirt on his faceYou may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll…

— Paul H. Dunn

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and…

— Anonymous

“Thus, though we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.”

— Sun Tzu

Woe to the lazy man! Laziness is an evil disease which you must not let seize you in childhood, for when you…

— Carlo Collodi

A procrastinators willpower lies in the fact that he keeps work pending because he strongly feels he wants to do the same…

— Anonymous

“Procrastination is like masturbation, in the beginning it feels good, but in the end, you're just f***ing yourself!”

— Michael McCarthy

Many psychotherapists believe laziness is usually just the symptom. That the real problem is fear of failure, fear of success, or fear…

— Marty Nemko

All we have is here and now. That's why procrastination feels so right. Procrastination isn't the problem, it's the solution.

— Ellen DeGeneres

The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after.

— John Lyly

Flee idleness... for no one is more exposed to such temptations than he who has nothing to do.

— Robert Bellarmine

If you wait to do everything until youre sure its right, youll probably never do much of anything.

— Anonymous

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

— Stephen King

Waiting to develop courage is just another form of procrastination. The most successful people take action while they're afraid!

— Ritu Ghatourey

A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“In fact, to the extent that we feel competent, our fears of the potential for failure are not related to our procrastination.”

— Anonymous