Top 100 Quotes About Procrastination
#2. Once I finished, I got that procrastination monkey off my back! And I started seeing doors opening.
Eric Thomas
#3. The cost of procrastination is generally far greater than the cost of making mistakes.
Robert Ringer
#4. Procrastination and excuses really have the energy to make your picture small and blurred if you offer them that image!
Israelmore Ayivor
#5. Take excuses and procrastination as your enemies. Let them see you and frown their faces and bypass you without greetings. You will excel if you don't internalize the habit of giving excuses.
Israelmore Ayivor
#6. I write at a standing desk, which has helped me be much more productive and solved some back problems, but mostly all my quirky habits have to do with procrastination and avoidance rather than with work. I'm slowly trying to stamp those out.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#7. The old saying that "success breeds success" has something to it. It's that feeling of confidence that can banish negativity and procrastination and get you going the right way.
Donald Trump
#8. Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.
John Ortberg
#9. How comfortable some of us become as we nestle in the web of procrastination. It is a false haven of rest for those who are content to live without purpose, commitment, or self-discipline.
Marvin J. Ashton
#10. Procrastination, the opposite of decision, is a common enemy which practically everyone must conquer.
Napoleon Hill
#11. Some people would rather suffer the consequences of procrastination than the humiliation of trying and not doing as well as they had hoped.
Jane B. Burka
#12. If you have goals and procrastination, you have nothing. If you have goals and you take action, you will have anything you want.
Thomas J. Vilord
#13. The main factors that sponsor the abuse of time include procrastination and excuses. Procrastination makes you to shift a task that you can do now into the unseen future; excuses are the reasons why you shift that task.
Israelmore Ayivor
#14. I do think that procrastination evolved in humans for good reasons. If you're trying to stay alive as a human being on the savanna 20,000 years ago, worrying about what's right behind that bush is a lot more important than worrying about what might happen three weeks from now.
James Surowiecki
#15. basis, you may find that it is affecting your daily life because you simply don't get things done. Fortunately, there are a number of habits that you can introduce into your life to stop procrastination. Some of them
Sam Davis
#16. I think the official name for such activity is procrastination by chocolate hobnobs. Successful authors are the type who type and who do not indulge in hobnobbing on the couch.
Gillibran Brown
#17. There's nothing wrong with procrastination. Or is there? I'll leave it to you to decide, but only if you have the time.
Craig Brown
#18. Procrastination is the kidnapper of souls, and the recruiting-officer of Hell.
Edward Irving
#19. Procrastination can be overcome with effective time management skills and strategies.
Robert Moment
#20. Procrastination is one of the most expensive invisible costs in business today.
Rory Vaden
#21. Stop putting it off! Procrastination breeds guilt, guilt breeds depression, and depression breeds failure.
Barbara Corcoran
#22. Where there is motion, there is no procrastination. Where there is no procrastination, there is no clutter.
Anna Femming
#23. Procrastination and impatience form a system of checks and balances.
Mason Cooley
#24. Procrastination is my sin. It brings me naught but sorrow. I know that I should stop it. In fact, I will
tomorrow
Gloria Pitzer
#25. I don't think of it as procrastination. I think of it as allowing my work to accumulate urgency.
Maud Newton
#26. Fear stops a lot of people. Fear of failure, of the unknown, of risk.
And it masks itself as procrastination.
Lisa Anderson
#27. For me, most of the anxiety and difficulty of writing takes place in the act of not writing. It's the procrastination, the thinking about writing that's difficult.
Adam Mansbach
#28. We must remember balance and moderation. Patience can be spiritually enriching and virtuous ... but when taken in excess, it turns to procrastination, the poison of inaction.
Steve Maraboli
#29. One of greatest thieves this world has is procrastination, and he is still at large. Are we aiding and abetting the criminal?
Sterling W. Sill
#30. Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear.
Julia Cameron
#31. I have a funny process : it's called procrastination.
K. K. Barrett
#32. Accurate analysis of over 25,000 men and women who had experienced failure, disclosed the fact that lack of decision was near the head of the list of the 30 major causes of failure. This is no mere statement of a theory - it is a fact. Procrastination,
Napoleon Hill
#33. You must master the habit of procrastination and eliminate it from your wake-up. This habit of putting off until tomorrow that which you should have done last week or last year or a score of years ago is gnawing at the very vitals of your being and you can accomplish nothing until you throw it off.
Napoleon Hill
#34. When it comes to death, procrastination is encouraged.
D.E. Navarro
#35. Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence, as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination .
Dan Miller
#36. If you have newspapers dating to the last millennium, magazines from the Seventies stacked on your nightstand, and countless envelopes filled with family photos stuffed in a drawer, you may be carrying procrastination to an extreme.
Marilyn Sokol
#37. Procrastination is the best action against putting an ankle bracelet
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#38. One element of maturity is the realization that we don't get away with anything. Any advantage gained or convenience taken, any private procrastination or insincerity, no matter how subtle or quick in passing, is paid for.
Hugh Prather
#39. Spiritual matters can often masquerade themselves in natural patterns of behavior. For example, unbelief disguises itself as skepticism and procrastination.
Kirby Clements
#40. That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in fact irrevocable and that it had counted after all, every evasion and every procrastination, every mistake, every word, all of it.
Joan Didion
#42. 'Purple Plumeria' I dithered over for months and then wrote the whole thing between the beginning of July and end of August. The dithering and procrastination time was three times the writing times.
Lauren Willig
#43. I have a problem with procrastination. I have a great deal of difficulty deciding what to wear. It's a woman thing.
Lauryn Hill
#44. 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
#45. Most procrastination is largely indecision. Someone has said that "hell is just truth seen too late."
Sterling W. Sill
#47. Don't put off until tomorrow what can be done today. Procrastination is a sign of weak character.
Carol Cox
#49. Did I become court composer through masterful procrastination? Hardly!
Rachel Hartman
#50. Punctuality is closely related to faithfulness and dependability. Being tardy can be linked to uninterest, apathy, slothfulness and procrastination ...
Sterling W. Sill
#51. The minimum I need is six months to allow for dithering, procrastination and the research. The research times varies from book to book; some are faster because they're based off resources I have at my disposal.
Lauren Willig
#52. Laziness is when your sleep overcomes your passion, not under the influence of drugs but under the control of excuses and procrastination!
Israelmore Ayivor
#53. I like movies. I've written screenplays as a sort of procrastination thing for me. Like I'll work for a couple months on this idea that's been kicking around and then like 30 pages in I'll just go try a novel because it's a lot easier. That's what I know. So why am I killing myself?
Colson Whitehead
#54. My biggest regret could be summed up in one word, and that's procrastination.
Ron Cooper
#55. I, for one, find writing excruciating. Some mornings, as I'm on my way to my desk, my hands actually tremble with fear. The fear, of course, is that I'll sit down at the desk and discover that what I've written is claptrap. Fear inevitably leads to procrastination.
Rosemary Mahoney
#56. Procrastination is a hustlers worst enemy.
Lilly Singh
#57. My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.
Charles Dickens
#58. 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
#59. Procrastination is the greatest enemy or barrier that needs to be overcome.
Steven Redhead
#60. Procrastination has become a it's own solution - a tool I can use to push myself so close to disaster that I become terrified and flee towards success.
Allie Brosh
#61. A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life.
Ze Frank
#62. PROCRASTINATION. The habit of putting off until tomorrow that which should have been done last year.
Napoleon Hill
#63. In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#64. Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.
Mason Cooley
#66. JOIN THE CIRCUS OF CHAOS ... juggling, stilt walking, and other skills for socially acceptable procrastination.
Pat Murphy
#67. Housework is the most productive procrastination close to a deadline.
Grant McLachlan
#68. True blessing comes in the dress of sweats, never delaying to wave bye to the excuses and procrastination. True blessing lies in hard work!
Israelmore Ayivor
#69. Procrastination killing your success slowly
Faiz Triumph
#70. Decide to dream big dreams and make them happen. Never let procrastination and excuses squeeze your dreams to become small. Do it early and do it big!
Israelmore Ayivor
#71. I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia.
Joanne Harris
#72. Unfinished business is our worst business. Perpetual procrastination must yield to perceptive preparation. Today we have a little more time to bless others-time to be kinder, more compassionate, quicker to thank and slower to scold, more generous in sharing, more gracious in caring.
Russell M. Nelson
#74. Procrastination and fear are the enemies of success; the war is lifelong, but the battles are daily.
Noel DeJesus
#75. Too many are trying to conquer higher weaknesses such as procrastination, impatience or pride while still being slaves to their appetites. If we can't control the body and its appetites, how can we control our tongues, or overcome the emotions or anger, envy, jealousy, or hatred?
Stephen Covey
#76. Doesn't reincarnation strike you as just another form of procrastination?
Chuck Palahniuk
#77. 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
#78. - I should be doing my homework now. But the way I look at it, playing in the snow is a lot more important. Out here I'm learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life.
- Such as?
- Procrastination and rationalization.
Bill Watterson
#79. Procrastination is productive when done intentionally.
Ben Tolosa
#80. Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.
Christopher Parker
#81. Patience is for those who can't be bothered with procrastination!
Sharon Fletcher
#82. Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork.
Tom Conti
#83. Resist the short term temptation of procrastination; the immediate pleasure and relief that it brings does not fair in comparison to the long lasting damage it does to your dreams and goals.
Noel DeJesus
#84. It is important to note that a transitional phase has to be uncomfortable for you to move on to the next stage, lest procrastination stymies you.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#87. Such is our impatience, such our hatred of procrastination, to everything but the amendment of our practices and the adornment of our nature, one would imagine we were dragging Time along by force, and not he us.
Walter Savage Landor
#88. Nothing so perilous as procrastination
John Lyly
#89. KISS Procrastination Away: Keep It Super Simple, Keep It Step-by-Step, Keep It Scheduled and Systematic.
Lisa A. Mininni
#90. Writing is 90% procrastination, 8% perspiration, and 6%biscuit
None of it is math.
Almney King
#91. To stay grounded and feel secure,
I choose:
Faith over fear;
Action over procrastination;
Focus over distraction;
Reflection over reaction.
Charles F. Glassman
#92. The obligation to express gratitude deepens with procrastination. The longer you wait, the more effusive must be the thanks.
Judith Martin
#93. Sadly, retirement planning, in many circumstances, has become nothing more than planned procrastination.
Richie Norton
#94. Procrastination threatens to rob us of those things that are most important in our lives.
Richie Norton
#95. You may not be punished for your procrastination, but for sure you will be punished by your procrastination.
Debasish Mridha
#96. Procrastination is your way of avoiding your fantasy of reality.
Gloria Arenson
#97. Procrastination is, as Edward Young said in about sixteen ninety-five, the thief of time.
Patrick Taylor
#98. The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They're full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too.
Norman Vincent Peale
#99. Indulge in procrastination, and in time yon will come to this, that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can't do it.
Charles Buxton
#100. 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
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