Top 100 Quotes About Procrastination
#1. Procrastination and excuses are sour spices that spoil the sweet taste of an effective work. They must hence, not be prompted under desire, partly because they are strictly time-stripping and also because they have no known essence.
Israelmore Ayivor
#3. One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.
Brian Tracy
#4. 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
#7. 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
#8. Like most such tasks, cooking vegetables involves investing large amounts of time in deep thought and procrastination and a relatively small amount of time actually doing the job.
Richard David Feinman
#9. Worn out by suffering, we lie on our great backs, tossing grass up to heaven - as a distraction, not a prayer. That's not humility you see on our long final journeys: it's procrastination. It hurts my heavy body to lie down. - DAN CHIASSON, The Elephant
Jodi Picoult
#10. I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced.
Maria Edgeworth
#11. MEDIOCRITY IS A CHOICE... PROCRASTINATION IS A VIRUS THE FIRST ERROR IS INDECISION
Marsha Wright
#12. Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit.
John Updike
#13. 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
#14. I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.
Denzel Washington
#16. Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination.
Gretchen Rubin
#17. The problem with spiritual procrastination is the uncertain time of the deadline.
Kevin Thoman
#18. 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
#19. Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.
Paulo Coelho
#20. Look, my dad has a saying - we'll burn that bridge when get to it. OK? You get it? Worry about tomorrow, tomorrow.
Barry Lyga
#21. I believe that 99 percent of what anyone does can effectively be postponed.
Amy Hempel
#22. We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
Erica Jong
#23. My mother always told me I wouldn't amount to anything because I procrastinate. I said, 'Just wait.
Judy Tenuta
#24. Procrastination is hardly more evil than grasping impatience.
Immanuel Kant
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. One very important key to maintaining our daily sanity is a simple scheduling tactic I call Putting Things the Hell Off.
Ian Frazier
#28. 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
#29. I manage my time by prioritizing tasks, working smarter not harder, and by avoiding procrastination.
Jeet Banerjee
#30. procrastination in the face of poor performance is a fool's remedy.
Marcus Buckingham
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. PROCRASTINATION means you know what you need to do and you don't do it. If you don't know what to do, you aren't procrastinating. You're thinking.
Lynn Lively
#34. 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
#35. Nothing is too difficult unless you decide to keep shifting it to tomorrow till you can't do it any longer.
Israelmore Ayivor
#38. 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
#39. 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
#41. 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
#42. If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.
Lee Iacocca
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. Procrastination causes pressure that zaps creativity and excellence.
Todd Stocker
#47. 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
#49. The best cure for procrastination is to have so much on your plate that procrastination is no longer an option.
Tavi Gevinson
#52. 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
#53. Now-people" are winners; they say "now" and they do it "now"! Do not delay.
Israelmore Ayivor
#54. 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
#55. My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. Collar him!
Charles Dickens
#56. Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.
Mark Twain
#57. Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.
James A. Michener
#58. Never postpone until tomorrow what you can postpone until the day after.
Raoul Wallenberg
#59. I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating.
-Ella Varner
Lisa Kleypas
#60. Procrastination in the beginning and precipitation towards the conclusion is the characteristic of such bodies.
James Madison
#63. Resisting a task is usually a sign that it's meaningful-which is why it's awakening your fears and stimulating procrastination. You could adopt "Do whatever you're resisting the most" as a philosophy of life.
Oliver Burkeman
#64. Perfection' is man's ultimate illusion. It simply doesn't exist in the universe ... If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do.
David D. Burns
#65. 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
#66. 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.
William Alcott
#67. I can procrastinate thinking about my procrastination problem. I can procrastinate dealing with my problem of procrastinating thinking about my procrastination problem.
Anonymous
#68. Everyone who is taken by death asks for more time, while everyone who still has time makes excuses for procrastination.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#69. He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#70. The problem with tomorrow is that I have never seen a tomorrow. Tomorrow does not exist. Tomorrow only exist in the mind of dreamers and losers.
Robert Kiyosaki
#71. Great matter-days remain on the day stone balance, affecting your life on the day the occur and every day thereafter. So the earlier they happen, the better; waiting means potentially sacrificing years or even decades of benefit.
Ron Lizzi
#72. Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.
Aaron Burr
#73. Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone
Pablo Picasso
#75. Yesterday is a cancelled check;
Tomorrow is a promissory note;
Today is the only cash you have,
so spend it wisely.
Kim Lyons
#76. He who puts off nothing till tomorrow has done a great deal.
Baltasar Gracian
#77. Procrastination is the junior enemy of action; cowardice, the senior.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#78. Having to think before actually starting is an open door to procrastination. You need lists of actions, not lists of hopes and wishes.
Kevin T. Edwards
#79. Inaction that results from indulgence is Procrastination. Inaction that results from intention is Patience.
Rory Vaden
#80. I swing between procrastination and being really thorough so either way things aren't getting done quickly.
Freema Agyeman
#81. If you are always saying I'll do it to tomorrow, than your tomorrow will than turn into another day and so on, and so, etc. etc.
Victoria Addino
#82. Do nothing by halves which can be done by quarters.
F. R. Scott
#84. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.
Lee Iacocca
#87. The forces of procrastination, self-doubt, worry, cultural expectations, even family and friends, can hold your life in place, like Gravity.
Matt Gersper
#89. 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
#90. It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. -Algernon
Oscar Wilde
#91. Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday
Don Marquis
#92. Procrastination and fear are close cousins.
S.B. Sebrick
#93. Action will destroy your procrastination.
Og Mandino
#94. The real difference between those who want to write and those that do, is that those that do get up every day and do it.
Leonard Wolf
#95. Stop killing and wasting time. Get something done today
Sunday Adelaja
#97. Our creative dreams are subject to grudge-holding when we decide that other people somehow have made their dreams real and we have not.
SARK
#98. Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
William James
#99. If you have ever experienced that feeling of being "stuck" with writing, it is not because you haven't put your butt in a chair. It's because you are suffering from emotional procrastination toward writing.
Monica Leonelle
#100. You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Abraham Lincoln
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