Procrastination Quotes

Procrastination can be driven from your personality through the simple technique of constantly commanding yourself to get into action . . . and then obeying that command immediately.

During a very busy life I have often been asked, "How did you manage to do it all?" The answer is very simple. It is because I did everything promptly.

If you do not act on a suggestion at first, you grow dull to its message.

The most life destroying word of all is the word tomorrow.

Lingering labors come to naught.

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

Festination may prove Precipitation; Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.

Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!

Every thing in human character goes to wreck, under the reign of procrastination, while prompt action gives to all things a corresponding and proportional life and energy.

Procrastination is what we often call 'resistance.

Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.

Any time we have projects that we haven't begun or completed, they drain energy.

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

One thing that's good about procrastination is that you always have something planned for tomorrow.

Do not delay, Do not delay: the golden moments fly!

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.

I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating. -Ella Varner

Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live.

Procrastination and impatience form a system of checks and balances.

I used to go online all the time, and then I had to stop myself... because I'm a writer, and it's like: to have a procrastination tool, like, within my computer... it was just getting too hairy.

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

Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task

The era of procrastination...is coming to a close...we are entering a period of consequences - Winston Churchill (warning about the danger of appeasement

At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.

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

We went to lunch and were talking about procrastination and the waitress overheard us and she said, 'I have a problem with procrastination, too.' I said 'Really?... Get my sandwich.'

Nothing is more burdensome than an unfinished task.

Later is always my first choice.

The interesting thing about procrastination is that is has more to do with what we fail to do than with what we do.

I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.

Procrastination-thou wretched thief of time and opportunity!

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

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

My favorite procrastination is to make the choice to have valuable times with human beings that I care about instead of holing myself up alone to get my work done.

Doesn't reincarnation strike you as just another form of procrastination?

This is a pie chart about procrastination.

Potential is an excuse to procrastinate; Ambition is a means to thrive.

Somebody was using the pencil.

If procrastination were a marketable skill, I'd be a real hot commodity.

Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled.

Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer. Next day the fatal precedent will plead; thus on, til wisdom is pushed our of life.

Time destroyed Is suicide, where more than blood is spilt.

Once I finished, I got that procrastination monkey off my back! And I started seeing doors opening.

Faith in to-morrow, instead of Christ, is Satan's nurse for man's perdition.

Procrastination is the longest word in the language, but there's only one letter between its ends when they occupy their proper places in the alphabet.

Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.

One of the problems that exacerbates procrastination is the feeling that you have lots of different things to do and no clear sense of which matter more, when they should be done, etc.

I manage my time by prioritizing tasks, working smarter not harder, and by avoiding procrastination.

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

the obligation to express gratitude deepens with procrastination. The longer you wait, the more effusive must be the thanks.