Top 77 Never Put Off Quotes
#1. Never put off until tomorrow that which may be avoided entirely.
Bill McKean
#2. Never put off the work till tomorrow what you can put off today.
Stephen Hawking
#4. Never put off your massage until tomorrow if you can get it today.
Thomas Jefferson
#5. Christ hath told us He will come, but not when, that we might never put off our clothes, or put out the candle.
William Gurnall
#6. Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.
John C. Maxwell
#7. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
Mark Twain
#8. 'Never put off tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop into today's and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
J. A. Spender
#9. Never put off until run time what you can do at compile time.
David Gries
#10. I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after.
Oscar Wilde
#11. You never put off until tomorrow or even this afternoon what you can do this morning. Attack the objective when your desire is strongest.
Sheilah Graham Westbrook
#12. Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today.
Aldous Huxley
#14. Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
Philip Dormer Stanhope
#15. Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.
Aaron Burr
#16. Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.
Mark Twain
#17. Never put off until tomorrow, what you can put off until next week.
Peter James West
#18. Never put off for tomorrow what is meant for today ... tomorrow may never come.
C.J. Candel
#19. Never put off repairing a relationship you value. If sorry needs to be said say it now. Tomorrow isn't guaranteed to any of us.
Toni Sorenson
#20. Never be put off by rudeness, Mma," she whispered. "It is the rude person who is rude, not you.
Alexander McCall Smith
#21. I never pigeonholed myself - the only reason you'd want to pigeonhole is to monetize your business and, as a person, I don't see the importance of doing that. My music took off above the rest of those things: You can just make a song, put it on a CD, and get it out to all these people.
M.I.A.
#22. Never have I had such assistants to disrobe me, and never have I put off my clothes before such a company
Mary, Queen Of Scots
#23. Whenever they get a chance, never fear, people make you waste hours and months ... they use you as a wall to bounce their bullshit off of ... blah! and blah! and blahblahblah! ... you put up with it for an hour, you'll need two weeks to recover ... blah! blah!
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#24. Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.
Ernest Hemingway,
#25. Jane Morgan had ruined him. Ridden him hard and put him up wet. He might never recover.
Mentally he was even worse off. Who was this girl?
Victoria Dahl
#26. Map-making had never been a precise art on the Discworld. People tended to start off with good intentions and then get so carried away with the spouting whales, monsters, waves and other twiddly bits of cartographic furniture that the often forgot to put the boring mountains and rivers in at all.
Terry Pratchett
#27. I've never met anyone like you, Bianca. Anyone born to be a vampire, I mean. But as I understand it, you can't put it off forever. Sooner or later, you'll have to kill.
Claudia Gray
#28. I decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover, and that I would never learn a word of shorthand. If I never learned shorthand I would never have to use it.
Sylvia Plath
#29. Never be put off by your target's anger; it is a sure sign of enslavement.
Robert Greene
#30. We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
Alan Bennett
#31. Never put things off ... you will wake up and find them gone.
James Jones
#32. We can all name people we take for granted, because everybody's swamped. Overwhelmed. Harried. We mean to make memories with people who matter, but often, we put it off for someday. And someday morphs into never, as Life's unpredictability claims the people we love.
Andra Watkins
#33. We put too much on contemporary dancers. A lot of them cannot change styles; a lot of them can't do anything else other than run around the stage reaching and stretching in anguish to somebody off camera that I never understand who it is. But it's the teenage angst they have to live with.
Nigel Lythgoe
#34. The only habits you never conquer are the ones you put off doing something about.
Wess Roberts
#35. And the years came and went, the decades. But now it's no longer possible to put it off any more: either now or never. The one final opportunity must be taken, for the hour is late and nobody will come upon me.
Ivan Bunin
#36. Never be put off by anything because failure teaches you something.
Ridley Scott
#37. His gaze grew wistful, and he looked so young. 'I don't want to put things off, even though we haven't been together a really long time. I don't want to wait
you never know what can ... Look. I adore you, and I want a home. Again. With you.
Alice Clayton
#38. Payday loans: "If you were the sort of person who was ever going to understand compound interest, you wouldn't be in this mess. We can literally put off the shitstorm until next week. I mean, next week! It'll probably never happen!
David Mitchell
#39. I never understood why she didn't marry you."
The king settled further into the seat with a snort. "Maybe the prospect of being driven out of her mind put her off.
Megan Whalen Turner
#40. Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.
Aaron Burr Jr.
#41. But one thing I have to say about Darcy and dating is this: she never blew us off for a guy. She always put her friends first- which is an amazing thing for a high school girl to do.
Emily Giffin
#42. I remember I autographed it to Mutt Lange, and I may only have put one t on Mutt. I mean, I'd never heard of such a name. I'm sure he must've thought that was quite funny. He must've known from that autograph, right off the bat, that I had no idea who he was.
Shania Twain
#43. I've never thought that it made sense to put something out that I didn't actually find really fun to read. Or, if not "fun," engaging. My tastes are whatever they are, but I may be a little bit afraid of certain kinds of density. I may get turned off by certain kinds of show-offyness.
Lorin Stein
#44. When he spoke to people in the flesh, he could never tell what had put them off, his message or his person.
Michael Lewis
#45. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come.
Gloria Estefan
#46. If you put me on a pedestal, I will fall off because I can never achieve the perfection of your expectations.
D.S. Mixell
#47. You can never entirely stop being what you once were. That's why it's important to be the right person today, and not put it off till tomorrow.
Larry Wall
#48. Don't lie to me! Don't seem so normal when I know you have cut yourself off from me in your heart! If you can put on our affectionate closeness like a mask, then I'll never be able to take joy in it again.
Orson Scott Card
#49. Never let your dreams die! If you want to write then write. Never be put off by people who think they know better than you do.
Have confidence to keep on going!
Millie Aveyard
#50. I think I know that I deserve better. And so I try for better. I'm never so put off that I would ever walk out of a place not having tried the best I could.
Maya Angelou
#51. I have one of these bodies. When I was younger, I could never put weight on, and now that I'm a little older, there's a natural sort of chubbiness coming. But honestly, if I work out for a week, it drops off in no time.
Idris Elba
#52. Chastity is not given once and for all like a wedding ring that is put on never to be taken off, but is a garden which each day must be weeded, watered, and trimmed anew, or soon there will be only brambles and wilderness.
Joanna Russ
#53. It can be difficult to face the truth. And there's never a "good time" to face a difficult truth. So, I put it off for a better time, and become a prisoner of my own fear. It's the middle of Lent. There couldn't be a better time to face whatever truth I've been avoiding.
Ken Untener
#54. If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.
Norman Vincent Peale
#55. Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow.
Nothing endures but change.
Heraclitus
#56. To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.
Og Mandino
#57. always put it off for tomorrow. I thought I had more time, but sometimes tomorrow never comes and you're only left with the memories of yesterdays." When
Brittainy C. Cherry
#58. I've never been much for self-revelation. In two decades of public life, I always approached the limelight with extreme caution. Not that I kept my personal life off-limits; rather, the personal life I put on display was a blend of fact and fiction.
James McGreevey
#59. One thing I certainly never was made for, and that is to put principles on and off at the dictation of a party, as a lackey changes his livery at his master's command.
Horace Mann
#60. The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
Ezra Pound
#61. And quit bringing up our forefathers and saying they were civil libertarians. Our founding fathers would have never tolerated any of this crap. For God's sake, they were blowing peoples' heads off because they put a tax on their breakfast beverage. And it wasn't even coffee.
Dennis Miller
#62. I can remember when I was National Security Adviser, the intelligence community told us ... they put out an intelligence report saying that Iran would never back off from attacks on shipping in the Gulf if we use force.
Frank Carlucci
#63. I just keep thinking about Thor. You never knew him. Big guy, like you. Good hearted. Not bright, but he'd give you the goddamned shirt off his back if you asked him. And he killed himself. He put a gun in his mouth and blew his head off in Philadelphia in 1932.
Neil Gaiman
#64. To celebrate my first hour of freedom. It's been going on nearly six months, and all at once I've thrown it off. I could never have guessed, even yesterday how easy it would be to put an end to it if I wanted.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#65. He fell silent for a very long time. "But on the other hand, perhaps it's like an on-off switch," he said. "Click! And you're gone." Then he paused again and smiled slightly. "Maybe that's why I never liked to put on-off switches on Apple devices.
Walter Isaacson
#66. Never procrastinate in showing love. Don't delay. Don't put it off. Do it now.
Rick Warren
#67. Also, toddler judgment is horrible. They don't have any. Put a twelve-month-old on a bed, and they will immediately try and crawl off headfirst like a lemming on a mindless migration mission. But the toddler mission is never mindless. They have two goals: find poison and find something to destroy.
Jim Gaffigan
#68. Michael allowed himself to look at Caddy for the first time since she had climbed into the car. It was a moment that he always put off for as long as possible because his concentration was never quite the same afterwards.
Hilary McKay
#69. One of the advantages of this found footage format is that you can have deliberately badly composed frames. Here we can put a camera in the weirdest angle and it kind of throws you off. You never know what you are supposed to be paying attention to. It's deliberate chaos.
Oren Peli
#70. A country-bred man can always learn to get on with city people, but a town-bred fellah never gets the real hang of the country. You can put city polish on a man, but by golly, it seems you can't ever rub it off him.
Agnes Sligh Turnbull
#71. In my experience, I have found that there is never a perfect time or place for anything. We can always find a reason to put off that which we aspire to do or fear to do until tomorrow, next week, next month, next year
until, in the end, we never accomplish anything at all.
Syrie James
#72. The world is full of things put off for the wrong reasons, which can suddenly become impossible without any warning. They hang in the air like ghosts, their mouths sewn up forever. They will never be able to speak, but if it was you who put them there, you will always be forced to see them.
Barney Norris
#74. I never realized how exhausting it was to turn women away. It was one thing to hook up with them and then call it a day, but to be off the market completely was something I'd never dealt with before. To put it simply, girls don't like being rejected, especially if it's because of another girl.
J. Sterling
#75. The right algorithm is to put off seeking funds for as long as physically possible. And in an ideal world, a startup would never have to seek funds at all.
Guy Kawasaki
#76. In most respects a pretty standard student domicile, there was something very unnerving about the apartment, and I couldn't quite put my finger on it. Eventually I realized: the light in the bathroom never turns off.
Al Burian
#77. I don't want to impose rules on people, but you have only a short window, and you're sorely mistaken if you think you can put off having a family. It's very hard to find a good man, and it's never a 'good time' to have a baby if you have a career.
Mika Brzezinski
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