Procrastination Quotes
350 quotes by 262 authors
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A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
— Lord Acton
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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…
— Arnold Bennett
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This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait…
— Omar N. Bradley
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I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.
— Pearl S. Buck
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If you want to be certain, you should never get married. You should never change jobs. In fact, you might as well just stay home.…
— Mark Burnett
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Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
— Dale Carnegie
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Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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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…
— Lord Chesterfield
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Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
— Lord Chesterfield
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The habit of always putting off an experience until you can afford it, or until the time is right, or until you know how to…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.
— David Lloyd George
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We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either…
— Seneca the Younger
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Delay not to seize the hour!
— Aeschylus
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You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.
— Alexander Graham Bell
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It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the master work. Now, I'm beginning what I could have started ten years…
— Paulo Coelho
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The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to…
— Samuel Johnson
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If we accept and internalize the fact of our own mortality, then, by definition, we have to deal with the essential questions of how we…
— Surya Das
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By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there's no more future left for them.
— Roger L'Estrange
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Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and…
— M. Scott Peck
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