Quotes About Procrastination

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.

The hour of idleness is the hour of temptation.

Idleness is the mother of vice.

So runs the genealogy of many another sin: idleness is usually the grandfather of the crime, whatever the father might be.

The only thing wrong with doing nothing is that you never know when you're finished.

To kill time, a committee meeting is the perfect weapon.

People that are organized are just too lazy to get up and look for it.

If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you don't wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes.

The only thing that has to be finished by next Tuesday is next Monday.

...like stealing the juice from tomorrow's fruit.

Nothing so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task…

The psychological principle is this: anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.

You know you are getting old when it takes too much effort to procrastinate.

I do my work at the same time each day — the last minute.

You'll wish that you had done some of the hard things when they were easier to do.

Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

Do not put off until tomorrow what can be put off till day-after-tomorrow just as well.

The two rules of procrastination: 1) Do it today. 2) Tomorrow will be today tomorrow.

One of the greatest labor-saving inventions of today is tomorrow.

To-morrow — the day when idlers work, and fools reform.

TO-MORROW. The only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man.

A year from now you may wish you had started today!

One of these days is none of these days.

He loses his thanks who promises and delays.