Do Not Procrastinate Quotes

#1. Kind thoughts increase the flow of vital energy into your body and mind. Do kind acts now. Do not procrastinate. Kindness is like a healing balm. It soothes suffering ... Little drops of water make the mighty ocean. Even so, little acts of kindness make an ocean of goodwill.

Sivananda

#2. Do not procrastinate. Someone has said that procrastination is the thief of time. Actually, procrastination is much more. It is the thief of our self-respect. It nags at us and spoils our fun. It deprives us of the fullest realization of our ambitions and hopes.

Thomas S. Monson

#3. THE MISCONCEPTION: You procrastinate because you are lazy and can't manage your time well. THE TRUTH: Procrastination is fueled by weakness in the face of impulse and a failure to think about thinking.

David McRaney

#4. Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal, while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before

Herodotus

#5. Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more driven by profits and marketing, and generally less congenial - but my day is the same: get out of bed, procrastinate, sit down at my desk, try to write something.

Paul Theroux

#6. When we get the inspiration from Heave to do something. We do it now. We don't procrastinate.

William R. Walker

#7. I think every writer doubts themselves, every day. You procrastinate because you're afraid. You're always afraid it's not going to be as good as you want it to be. But, the key is overcoming fear.

Geoff Johns

#8. The web is a dangerous place for a mind begging to slack off and be distracted by nonsense.

Michelle M. Pillow

#9. Resistance really takes the shape, for me, in voices in my head telling me why I can't do something or why I should put it off for another day, procrastinate for another day.

Steven Pressfield

#10. Never procrastinate in showing love. Don't delay. Don't put it off. Do it now.

Rick Warren

#11. I tend to write in coffee shops and restaurants with friends of mine because if I'm at home, I get distracted by the television or the cats or my husband, or ... you know - all of those things that make it easy to procrastinate.

Cassandra Clare

#12. I can procrastinate a little bit.

Will.i.am

#13. Both positive and negative thinking are contagious.

Stephen Richards

#14. I procrastinate, but mostly because there's always too many things to do, and I got the stew in my mind that things do bubble up, so I'll throw things in there and let them stew around. It's sort of like greasing the squeaky wheels in my own brain.

Larry Wall

#15. I try to procrastinate, if I can, productively, like I'll work on something else as procrastination. Or I take a walk. Because often I find, if you get out, more things come to you.

Noah Baumbach

#16. I think I grew a grey watching you procrastinate.

Brandon Boyd

#17. If you recognize a need for change, make the change; don't procrastinate. -Dieter Uchtdorf

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#18. It's remarkably easy to procrastinate when you're not sure you'll be around to take the test you're supposed to be preparing for.

Lauren Miller

#19. To those of us who often procrastinate on the decision we feel intimidated by lack of education or any area of weakness. I relieve you with this statement: It is not how much you know that arms you with the tools of great decision making, but rather how much you ask. Ask questions.

T.D. Jakes

#20. Not now" easily grows to become "never"; You either do it now or lose it forever!

Israelmore Ayivor

#21. Some people procrastinate so much that all they can do is run around like firefighters all day - putting out fires that should not have gotten started in the first place.

Nido R. Qubein

#22. There is no tomorrow to remember if we don't do something today, and to live most fully today, we must do that which is of greatest importance. Let us not procrastinate those things which matter most.

Thomas S. Monson

#23. The secret of forgiveness is not to procrastinate, but to free yourself immediately of stress by totally forgiving this instant.

Gerald Jampolsky

#24. Life is a game board. Time is your opponent. If you procrastinate, you will lose the game. You must make a move to be victorious.

Napoleon Hill

#25. Men and women do make decisions wherever the Gospel is proclaimed; whether publicly or privately, some say yes, some say no, and some procrastinate. No one ever hears the Gospel proclaimed without making some kind of decision!

Billy Graham

#26. laurig, shy of making decisions and happy to procrastinate.

Heinz Linge

#27. Why do we procrastinate leaving? The denial phase is a humbling one. It takes a while to come to terms with our miserable luck. Rowley puts it this way: 'Fires only happen to other people.' We have a tendency to believe that everything is OK because, well, it almost always has been before.

Amanda Ripley

#28. Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the "someday I'll" philosophy.

Denis Waitley

#29. We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.

Erica Jong

#30. My mother always told me I wouldn't amount to anything because I procrastinate. I said, 'Just wait.

Judy Tenuta

#31. I focus best and am most productive when I'm working in a friend's empty apartment. It's hard for me to work at home. Too easy to procrastinate online, too easy to be distracted by the state of perpetual domestic chaos that rules my home.

Elissa Schappell

#32. You must not procrastinate. Rather, you should make preparations so that even if you did die tonight, you would have no regrets. If you develop an appreciation for the uncertainty and imminence of death, your sense of the importance of using your time wisely will get stronger and stronger.

Dalai Lama

#33. I don't procrastinate because I love the English language and the process of storytelling, and I'm always curious to see what will come to me next. If you procrastinate a lot, you might be one who loves having written, but doesn't so much like writing.

Dean Koontz

#34. People who start habitually exercising tend on average to eat better. They also tend to use their credit cards less and procrastinate less.

Charles Duhigg

#35. If you fail to believe you will procrastinate or become idealustic about how awesome you are at working hard and managing your time, you never develop a strategy for outmaneuvering your own weakness.

David McRaney

#36. Now-people" are winners; they say "now" and they do it "now"! Do not delay.

Israelmore Ayivor

#37. Before you procrastinate, begin.
Before you begin, plan.
Before you plan, visualize.
Before you visualize, dream.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#38. Hopeless and helpless doth AEgeon wend,
But to procrastinate his lifeless end.

William Shakespeare

#39. I can procrastinate thinking about my procrastination problem. I can procrastinate dealing with my problem of procrastinating thinking about my procrastination problem.

Anonymous

#40. Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.

Charles F. Stanley

#41. The fact is that you can't do everything that you have to do. You have to procrastinate on something. Therefore, procrastinate on small tasks.

Brian Tracy

#42. Engineering circumstances means you put systems, rituals, rules and/or intentions in place to thwart you in the event you try to procrastinate, delay or even fail to perform the tasks you know would ensure your success.

Honoree Corder