Top 100 Procrastination Is Quotes
#2. Procrastination is illogical from every viewpoint. It is like the man who wanted to cross the stream, so he sat on the bank to wait for all the water to run by.
Vernon Howard
#3. 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.
James Surowiecki
#4. MEDIOCRITY IS A CHOICE... PROCRASTINATION IS A VIRUS THE FIRST ERROR IS INDECISION
Marsha Wright
#5. 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
#6. The problem with spiritual procrastination is the uncertain time of the deadline.
Kevin Thoman
#7. Procrastination is hardly more evil than grasping impatience.
Immanuel Kant
#8. Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene
Edward Young
#9. The best cure for procrastination is to have so much on your plate that procrastination is no longer an option.
Tavi Gevinson
#11. My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. Collar him!
Charles Dickens
#13. The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed.
Steven Pressfield
#14. Procrastination is the junior enemy of action; cowardice, the senior.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#15. The assumption of time is one of humanity's greatest follies. We tell ourselves that there's always tomorrow, when we can no more predict tomorrow than we can the weather. Procrastination is the thief of dreams.
Richard Paul Evans
#16. Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday
Don Marquis
#17. Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
William James
#18. Procrastination is a way of living in the past instead of the present moment.
Debasish Mridha
#19. 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
#21. The interesting thing about procrastination is that is has more to do with what we fail to do than with what we do.
Nido R. Qubein
#24. Eventually, time takes care of everything. The trouble with procrastination is that people give up on it too soon.
Robert Breault
#25. Procrastination is like addiction. It offers temporary excitement and relief from boring reality.
Barbara Oakley
#26. One thing that's good about procrastination is that you always have something planned for tomorrow
Gladys Bronwyn Stern
#27. Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
Wayne Gretzky
#28. Procrastination is the beginning of poor performance.
Ron Kaufman
#29. Addictive behavior is kind of the inverse of procrastination: procrastination is about not being able to do what you want to do, addiction about not being able to not do what you don't want to do (drink, use drugs, etc.)
James Surowiecki
#31. We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words 'Too Late'.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#32. Procrastination is a prelude in a minor key.
Boris Vian
#33. Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.
James Altucher
#34. 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.
George Horace Lorimer
#35. The cost of procrastination is generally far greater than the cost of making mistakes.
Robert Ringer
#36. Procrastination is the kidnapper of souls, and the recruiting-officer of Hell.
Edward Irving
#37. Procrastination is one of the most expensive invisible costs in business today.
Rory Vaden
#38. Procrastination is my sin. It brings me naught but sorrow. I know that I should stop it. In fact, I will
tomorrow
Gloria Pitzer
#39. When it comes to death, procrastination is encouraged.
D.E. Navarro
#40. Procrastination is the best action against putting an ankle bracelet
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#42. So, please people, if you know someone with AD(H)D, don't try to change that about them. Don't take that one skill away, or make them feel ashamed to use it. Sometimes procrastination is all they have in their little superhero tool belt!
Stacey Turis
#43. Most procrastination is largely indecision. Someone has said that "hell is just truth seen too late."
Sterling W. Sill
#45. Don't put off until tomorrow what can be done today. Procrastination is a sign of weak character.
Carol Cox
#47. Procrastination is a hustlers worst enemy.
Lilly Singh
#48. My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.
Charles Dickens
#49. Procrastination is a common reaction to feeling overwhelmed or fear of failure. Instead of taking on too much at once and overwhelming yourself, break things down and take one small action step at a time.
Lauren Mackler
#50. Procrastination is the greatest enemy or barrier that needs to be overcome.
Steven Redhead
#51. The problem with procrastination is it's been around since the beginning of time it seems.
Stephen Richards
#52. Procrastination is, hands down, our favorite form of self-sabotage.
Alyce Cornyn-Selby
#53. Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.
Julia Cameron
#54. Procrastination is like masturbation, in the beginning it feels good, but in the end, you're just f***ing yourself!
Michael McCarthy
#55. Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
Napoleon Hill
#56. Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.
Arnold Bennett
#57. Procrastination is assassination on the amazing future God has for you.
Perry Noble
#59. As much as people fail to admit it, procrastination is a form of laziness.
Idowu Koyenikan
#60. Procrastination is another form of resistance
Louise Hay
#61. Procrastination is the lazy cousin of fear.When we feel anxiety around an activity, we postpone it.
Noelle Hancock
#62. The era of procrastination ... is coming to a close ... we are entering a period of consequences - Winston Churchill (warning about the danger of appeasement
Al Gore
#63. Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
Victor Kiam
#64. Procrastination is opportunity's natural assassin.
Victor Kiam
#65. Procrastination is One of those Excuses, Born of Fear, that we Use to Keep Ourselves Stuck
Wayne Dyer
#66. A major reason for procrastination is a feeling of inadequacy, a lack of confidence, or an inability in a key area of a task. Feeling weak or deficient in a single area is enough to discourage you from starting the job at all.
Brian Tracy
#67. The best way to deal with procrastination is to postpone it.
Tony Robbins
#68. 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
#69. Procrastination is productive when done intentionally.
Ben Tolosa
#70. Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.
Christopher Parker
#71. Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork.
Tom Conti
#74. Procrastination is, as Edward Young said in about sixteen ninety-five, the thief of time.
Patrick Taylor
#75. Procrastination is your way of avoiding your fantasy of reality.
Gloria Arenson
#76. Overcoming procrastination is not, I repeat, not about cramming additional work into your day ... overcoming procrastination is about simplifying your life to make space for the activities that matter most.
Richie Norton
#78. One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.
Brian Tracy
#82. Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination.
Gretchen Rubin
#83. 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.
Richard Tangye
#84. Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.
Paulo Coelho
#85. The obvious danger is that in some situations [denial] can lead to procrastination in seeking help or to avoidance of action that might prevent harm.
Shlomo Breznitz
#86. One very important key to maintaining our daily sanity is a simple scheduling tactic I call Putting Things the Hell Off.
Ian Frazier
#87. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It's a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write.
Paul Rudnick
#88. procrastination in the face of poor performance is a fool's remedy.
Marcus Buckingham
#89. What is the definition of procrastination? It means: I can feel within my Energy sensor that this action is not in perfect alignment at this time.
Esther Hicks
#90. Our lack of focus is our primary problem and the source of many of our difficulties, like procrastination, trouble setting priorities, trouble dealing with time, trouble finishing projects, perfectionism, and the inevitable demoralization.
Douglas A. Puryear
#91. Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
Bill Cosby
#92. Nothing is too difficult unless you decide to keep shifting it to tomorrow till you can't do it any longer.
Israelmore Ayivor
#94. The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.
Winston S. Churchill
#95. 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.
Bear Grylls
#96. You can put off your dreams, your desires, your careers, your farms. You can avoid your responsibilities, obligations, promises, and sovereign rights. But any person who wants to make music, and doesn't, is a goddamned fool.
Jenna Woginrich
#97. Go ahead and do things, the bigger the better, if your fundamentals are sound. Avoid procrastination. Do not quibble for an hour over things that might be decided in minutes. However, if the issue at stake is large, stay as long as the next man, but go ahead and do things.
John J. Raskob
#98. One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens.
Joshua Foer
#99. Your ideas have legs and just as they run through your head, they could be running through someone else's head and it's just a matter of who gets to the finish line first. Nothing is new under the sun so act on your ideas.
Sanjo Jendayi
#100. Procrastination in the beginning and precipitation towards the conclusion is the characteristic of such bodies.
James Madison
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