Procrastination Quotes · Page 31

The problem with waiting until tomorrow is that when it finally arrives, it is called today.

— Jim Rohn

Here's the lovely thing about not-chronic, non-clinical insomnia; you get to see dawn. Otherwise it's just great for procrastination and doing stupid…

— Hussein Nishah

The hour of reformation is always delayed; every delay gives vice another opportunity of fortifying itself by habit.

— Samuel Johnson

I am brilliant at not doing paperwork. I could teach a degree in procrastination.

— Adrian Lester

If and perhaps… The language of procrastination and uncertainty. That's just people looking to justify their own lack of action.

— John Flanagan

“Don’t let procrastination hold you back. Every small decision counts toward your potential. Be wise”

— Afolayan David Ojo

“If you have goals and procrastination, you have nothing. If you have goals and you take action, you will have anything you…

— Thomas J. Vilord

Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment…

— Edward Young

“For he had acquired a lore in his youth which taught him ever to avoid the aged when merry plans were afoot;…

— Lord Dunsany

If you have a 2 or 3 year old who is not talking, you must start an early intervention program. The worst…

— Temple Grandin

You must not procrastinate. Rather, you should make preparations so that even if you did die tonight, you would have no regrets.…

— Dalai Lama

“Whatever actions you take, keep in mind that over the course of life, you will fail far more from timidity, procrastination, and…

— Margie Warrell

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes…

— Thomas de Quincey

For me, the enemy is procrastination, and losing attention, you know? It's not the writing that's difficult, it's sitting down to write…

— Moshe Kasher

Nowadays excessive work and pressure are status symbols. Time to oneself is sooner equated with unemployment and laziness, certainly in countries where…

— Rutger Bregman

One of the problems that exacerbates procrastination is the feeling that you have lots of different things to do and no clear…

— James Surowiecki

Idleness leads to relaxation, sooner or later bringing about ideological and material corruption, accompanied by lack of discipline, anarchy chaos and defeat.

— Samora Machel

Once a job it has begun, do not stop until it's done. Whether it is big or small, do it well or…

— Bear Grylls

“Distinguish between idle complaints and complaints meant to lead to improvement”

— Ray Dalio

Don't wait for people to dress your bed for you, do it yourself and you'll be glad to sleep and feel relaxed

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“March 30, 1998 Because I was in a bind with my BBC story, I devoted most of my day to defrosting the freezer.”

— David Sedaris

I screw up on the delay settings, so pretty much everything is manually done by me - I don't have those presets…

— Joey Santiago

“One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.”

— Brian Tracy

“Political cynicism, disengagement, democratic decadence — call it what you will — is too often an excuse for physical and intellectual laziness.”

— Matthew Flinders

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

— Benjamin Franklin

“My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. Collar him!”

— Charles Dickens

“​ I have no great excuses for how my life has turned out. It was a simple case of poor planning. Laziness.”

— Alessandra Torre

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

— Ivan Turgenev

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

— Stephen King

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

— Anonymous

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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

— Ritu Ghatourey

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be…

— Aaron Burr

My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much later, or possibly never.

— Craig Brown

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

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

— John Lyly

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

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