Top 78 Time Procrastination Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Don't waste time waiting for opportunity to surface; it may never happen that way. Spend time to create one and many more will unfold in series!
Israelmore Ayivor
#3. Every minute we waste in frustration over a task that seems overwhelming is a minute subtracted from the time we've allotted to enjoy life.
Marc Mancini
#4. '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
#5. He shuffled through the list of messages, prioritizing them into three piles: now, later, and some other time.
Kenneth Eade
#7. Time destroyed Is suicide, where more than blood is spilt.
Edward Young
#8. Dream on it, think on it, ink on it, speak on it ... then proceed to bring on it. Fulfillment is ordered to find you. Shine time!
T.F. Hodge
#9. Procrastination can be overcome with effective time management skills and strategies.
Robert Moment
#10. He who every morning plans the transactions of that day and follows that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.
Victor Hugo
#11. A credit card allows you transcend time. For it allows you to put off until tomorrow what you bought today, while you are still paying what you bought yesterday.
Robert Morrissette
#12. Begin things today so that they can finish tomorrow
Moonish Sood
#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. The habit of always putting off an experience until you can afford it, or until the time is right, or until you know how to do it is one of the greatest burglars of joy. Be deliberate, but once you've made up your mind -jump in.
Charles R. Swindoll
#15. Tempted to type meaningless twaddle all the time on Twitter ... with alliteration, no less!
E.A. Bucchianeri
#16. Procrastination at the start and sometimes during the project meant there wasn't time to execute the plans well enough.
Graham Speechley
#17. The more time you have to do things, the less you are able to get done.
Joyce Rachelle
#18. Nobody is responsible for your sorrows and poverty, not even the devil. It is the work of the enemies of time that lives in some men, and their names are, 'Laziness and Procrastination'.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#19. I think there is clearly a connection between free time and procrastination. The more you have of the former, all things being equal, the more likely you are to procrastinate.
James Surowiecki
#20. Today and tomorrow is an illusion, days are all joined together, and if you are waiting for your time, you are wasting your time.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#21. Improvement is always on the schedule for tomorrow. Change is always taking place some time in the future. It's human nature.
Dan Pearce
#22. T just seemed as if she were marking time while life rocketed past.
Soheir Khashoggi
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. Procrastination is, as Edward Young said in about sixteen ninety-five, the thief of time.
Patrick Taylor
#27. You made delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again.
Benjamin Franklin
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. This faith in time's infinite patience triggers procrastination.
Anonymous
#32. Don't be lazy. Hard work brings happiness. There is no other time to avoid being a lazy. Take that decision now. Kick laziness out.
Israelmore Ayivor
#33. If we accept and internalize the fact of our own mortality, then, by definition, we have to deal with the essential questions of how we live and spend our allotted time. We have to stop procrastinating, pretending that we have forever to do what we want to do and be what we long to be.
Surya Das
#34. 24 hours a day, ain't enough anymore! But give some a Century a day and procrastination would still be their undoing.
Nike Thaddeus
#35. Procrastination has been a boon to my sobriety. I keep thinking I'd like to go out and get really trashed some night--but not tonight. It's really a variant of "One Step at a Time.
Rob Dinsmoor
#36. The problem with procrastination is it's been around since the beginning of time it seems.
Stephen Richards
#37. God will not allow you to add the words "next time" to now faith.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#38. 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
#39. My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.
Charles Dickens
#40. 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
#42. Yesterday is a cancelled check;
Tomorrow is a promissory note;
Today is the only cash you have,
so spend it wisely.
Kim Lyons
#44. Everyone who is taken by death asks for more time, while everyone who still has time makes excuses for procrastination.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#45. My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. Collar him!
Charles Dickens
#46. Now-people" are winners; they say "now" and they do it "now"! Do not delay.
Israelmore Ayivor
#47. 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
#48. 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
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. I manage my time by prioritizing tasks, working smarter not harder, and by avoiding procrastination.
Jeet Banerjee
#54. 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
#55. Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.
Paulo Coelho
#56. The problem with spiritual procrastination is the uncertain time of the deadline.
Kevin Thoman
#57. 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
#59. One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.
Brian Tracy
#60. 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
#61. 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.
#62. It's time to stop following your dreams and time to start chasing them!
Habeeb Akande
#63. This is the day the Lord himself has made! Do something on it before it begins to fade! Do something you have said! Do it before it's time for bed!
Israelmore Ayivor
#64. Habitual procrastinators will readily testify to all the lost opportunities, missed deadlines, failed relationships and even monetary losses incurred just because of one nasty habit of putting things off until it is often too late.
Stephen Richards
#65. Any time we have projects that we haven't begun or completed, they drain energy.
Arianna Huffington
#66. The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started.
Dawson Trotman
#69. When the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
Andrew Jackson
#70. 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
#71. Eventually, time takes care of everything. The trouble with procrastination is that people give up on it too soon.
Robert Breault
#72. Procrastination expert Rita Emmett explains: "The dread of doing a task uses up more time and energy than doing the task itself.
Barbara Oakley
#73. I used to go online all the time, and then I had to stop myself ... because I'm a writer, and it's like: to have a procrastination tool, like, within my computer ... it was just getting too hairy.
Mike White
#74. 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
#75. You always have time for the things you put first.
Anonymous
#76. We all do have a vision in life and we all wish to achieve something in life. We all ought to note that vision is there for everyone but, achievement is there for someone!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#78. Stop killing and wasting time. Get something done today
Sunday Adelaja
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