We Procrastinate Quotes

#1. Why do we procrastinate leaving? The denial phase is a humbling one. It takes a while to come to terms with our miserable luck. Rowley puts it this way: 'Fires only happen to other people.' We have a tendency to believe that everything is OK because, well, it almost always has been before.

Amanda Ripley

#2. That's the thing about having an eternity, kid," MeLaan said. "It gets really easy to procrastinate. Are we going in that room or not?

Brandon Sanderson

#3. I tend to write in coffee shops and restaurants with friends of mine because if I'm at home, I get distracted by the television or the cats or my husband, or ... you know - all of those things that make it easy to procrastinate.

Cassandra Clare

#4. I can procrastinate a little bit.

Will.i.am

#5. Both positive and negative thinking are contagious.

Stephen Richards

#6. I procrastinate, but mostly because there's always too many things to do, and I got the stew in my mind that things do bubble up, so I'll throw things in there and let them stew around. It's sort of like greasing the squeaky wheels in my own brain.

Larry Wall

#7. I try to procrastinate, if I can, productively, like I'll work on something else as procrastination. Or I take a walk. Because often I find, if you get out, more things come to you.

Noah Baumbach

#8. I think I grew a grey watching you procrastinate.

Brandon Boyd

#9. If you recognize a need for change, make the change; don't procrastinate. -Dieter Uchtdorf

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#10. It's remarkably easy to procrastinate when you're not sure you'll be around to take the test you're supposed to be preparing for.

Lauren Miller

#11. To those of us who often procrastinate on the decision we feel intimidated by lack of education or any area of weakness. I relieve you with this statement: It is not how much you know that arms you with the tools of great decision making, but rather how much you ask. Ask questions.

T.D. Jakes

#12. 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

#13. God is patient even when we are needlessly in a hurry. God is timely even when we needlessly procrastinate. Be more like God and less like men.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#14. Of course, the world will be filled with gadgets, holograms that allow a virtual version of you to be somewhere else, and endless amounts of content, so there will be plenty of ways to procrastinate, too - but the point is that when you choose to

Eric Schmidt

#15. Never procrastinate in showing love. Don't delay. Don't put it off. Do it now.

Rick Warren

#16. The choice is not working or not working, but which type of work; even feeling guilty because of procrastinating takes some effort. When you commit to a goal, you're committing to a form of work that brings ongoing rewards. When you procrastinate, you're choosing a self-punishing form of work.

Neil A. Fiore

#17. Not now" easily grows to become "never"; You either do it now or lose it forever!

Israelmore Ayivor

#18. I wished, as it were, to procrastinate all that related to my feelings of affection until the great object, which swallowed up every habit of my nature, should be completed.

Mary Shelley

#19. Your "frog" is your biggest, most important task, the one you are most likely to procrastinate on if you don't do something about it. It is also the one task that can have the greatest positive impact on your life and results at the moment. The

Brian Tracy

#20. Procrastinate now, don't put it off.

Ellen DeGeneres

#21. Become a worry-slapper. Treat frets like mosquitoes. Do you procrastinate when a bloodsucking bug lights on your skin? 'I'll take care of it in a moment.' Of course you don't! You give the critter the slap it deserves. Be equally decisive with anxiety.

Max Lucado

#22. The greatest power God gave us is the power to choose. We have the opportunity to choose whether we're going to act or procrastinate, believe or doubt, pray or curse, help or heal. We also choose whether we're going to be happy or whether we're going to be sad.

Lou Holtz

#23. In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education.

Stephen Covey

#24. What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#25. We all think that in the future, we are wonderful people. We will be patient, we will not procrastinate, we will exercise, we will eat well ... The problem is we never get to live in that future. We always live in the present.

Dan Ariely

#26. There is no tomorrow to remember if we don't do something today, and to live most fully today, we must do that which is of greatest importance. Let us not procrastinate those things which matter most.

Thomas S. Monson

#27. Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal, while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before

Herodotus

#28. Before you procrastinate, begin.
Before you begin, plan.
Before you plan, visualize.
Before you visualize, dream.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#29. Life is a game board. Time is your opponent. If you procrastinate, you will lose the game. You must make a move to be victorious.

Napoleon Hill

#30. Men and women do make decisions wherever the Gospel is proclaimed; whether publicly or privately, some say yes, some say no, and some procrastinate. No one ever hears the Gospel proclaimed without making some kind of decision!

Billy Graham

#31. laurig, shy of making decisions and happy to procrastinate.

Heinz Linge

#32. 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

#33. We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.

Erica Jong

#34. My mother always told me I wouldn't amount to anything because I procrastinate. I said, 'Just wait.

Judy Tenuta

#35. I focus best and am most productive when I'm working in a friend's empty apartment. It's hard for me to work at home. Too easy to procrastinate online, too easy to be distracted by the state of perpetual domestic chaos that rules my home.

Elissa Schappell

#36. 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

#37. The secret of forgiveness is not to procrastinate, but to free yourself immediately of stress by totally forgiving this instant.

Gerald Jampolsky

#38. People who start habitually exercising tend on average to eat better. They also tend to use their credit cards less and procrastinate less.

Charles Duhigg

#39. 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

#40. Now-people" are winners; they say "now" and they do it "now"! Do not delay.

Israelmore Ayivor

#41. Resistance really takes the shape, for me, in voices in my head telling me why I can't do something or why I should put it off for another day, procrastinate for another day.

Steven Pressfield

#42. Hopeless and helpless doth AEgeon wend,
But to procrastinate his lifeless end.

William Shakespeare

#43. I can procrastinate thinking about my procrastination problem. I can procrastinate dealing with my problem of procrastinating thinking about my procrastination problem.

Anonymous

#44. Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.

Charles F. Stanley

#45. The fact is that you can't do everything that you have to do. You have to procrastinate on something. Therefore, procrastinate on small tasks.

Brian Tracy

#46. Time goes too slow for those who are bored, to quick for those who procrastinate. Too long for those without goals and too short for those without focus. But for the man or woman who lives a life pursuing purpose, timing is perfect, and their time is always now.

Dwaun S. Cox

#47. Engineering circumstances means you put systems, rituals, rules and/or intentions in place to thwart you in the event you try to procrastinate, delay or even fail to perform the tasks you know would ensure your success.

Honoree Corder

#48. I don't procrastinate because I love the English language and the process of storytelling, and I'm always curious to see what will come to me next. If you procrastinate a lot, you might be one who loves having written, but doesn't so much like writing.

Dean Koontz

#49. 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

#50. When we get the inspiration from Heave to do something. We do it now. We don't procrastinate.

William R. Walker

#51. I think every writer doubts themselves, every day. You procrastinate because you're afraid. You're always afraid it's not going to be as good as you want it to be. But, the key is overcoming fear.

Geoff Johns

#52. The web is a dangerous place for a mind begging to slack off and be distracted by nonsense.

Michelle M. Pillow