Procrastination Quotes · Page 33

We are so quick to tweet, Facebook, and Instagram but we treat prayer with a sense of delay?

— Timothy Keller

“Do something productive, like painting or procrastinating or protesting—which is just a combination of the first two.”

— Jarod Kintz

One of greatest thieves this world has is procrastination, and he is still at large. Are we aiding and abetting the criminal?

— Sterling W Sill

The fact is that you can't do everything that you have to do. You have to procrastinate on something. Therefore, procrastinate on…

— Brian Tracy

“The Idea: Our inability to clearly see the future clearly leads us into temptation and procrastination.”

— Anonymous

“I am orderly out of spirit of idleness, to save myself the trouble of looking after things...”

— Alexandre Dumas

There's a rumour that we actually make all our albums in the last six months before they're released and the rest of…

— Robert Del Naja

It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind.…

— Oscar Wilde

Do you press the "pause" button - the "until" button in life by saying "I can't be happy until..."? All this accomplishes…

— Michael Beckwith

Your world is an illusion. Actions speak louder than words. Is ok to dream if you make things happen--stop dreaming and wake…

— Wandini

“We must remember balance and moderation. Patience can be spiritually enriching and virtuous… but when taken in excess, it turns to procrastination,…

— Steve Maraboli

Evidently there is no need for delay, no need for further study, if the government takes a loss and Wall Street makes…

— Elizabeth Warren

“I never spend a day in idleness; I appropriate even a part of the night for study. I do not allow time…

— Seneca

If you're not comfortable with delay, frustration and impatience, get out of the Senate. It's the nature of the institution, but I…

— Dick Durbin

“Habitual procrastinators will readily testify to all the lost opportunities, missed deadlines, failed relationships and even monetary losses incurred just because of…

— Stephen Richards

I, for one, find writing excruciating. Some mornings, as I'm on my way to my desk, my hands actually tremble with fear.…

— Rosemary Mahoney

“Clutter is the physical manifestation of unmade decisions fueled by procrastination”

— Christina Scalise

“PROCRASTINATION. The habit of putting off until tomorrow that which should have been done last year.”

— Napoleon Hill

4 hour delay tonight to dublin going to miss the start at the tripod. Sorry out of my control

— John Digweed

How do you gag the voice in your head that says, 'You don't have to [do it] today. There's always tomorrow.'?

— A. J. Jacobs

Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal.

— Mario Andretti

That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.

— Charles Dickens

Idleness is a great enemy to mankind. There is no friend like energy, for, if you cultivate that, it will never fail.

— Bhartrhari

Procrastination is a sin of lawyers, trial judges, reporters, appellate judges, in brief, everyone connected with the machinery of criminal law.

— Macklin Fleming

Don't wait for tomorrow to do something that can be done today since often later is never.

— Patrick Ngetich

Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not…

— Carlo Collodi

I think that we should not delay for the sake of delay, but delay until questions are answered.

— Patrick Leahy

“Really, we shouldn't neglect the study of idleness so criminally, but make it into an art and a science, even into a…

— Friedrich Schlegel

Even if you're sitting on the right tracks, you'll still get run over by just sitting there.

— Austin Jorden

They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.

— Socrates

Ay! idleness! the rich folks never fail To find some reason why the poor deserve Their miseries.

— Robert Southey

Laziness is the one divine fragment of a godlike existence left to man from paradise.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.

— Henry David Thoreau

Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“ Get back to work , he would tell himself sternly. There's a garuda to get airborne. ”

— China Miéville

Procrastination in the beginning and precipitation towards the conclusion is the characteristic of such bodies.

— James Madison

“Procrastination and fear are the enemies of success; the war is lifelong, but the battles are daily.”

— Noel DeJesus

“Not doing things you can do is the whole point of laziness. Not doing things you can’t do is just sensible.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

“I seem to be allergic to diligence, and Lola said, Ha. What you're allergic to is trying.”

— Junot Díaz

Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.

— Anonymous