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Quotes About Procrastination

Avoid with fury the killers of time.
~ Og Mandino
Laziness begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains.
~ Orison Swett Marden
woe to him who stops to tie his shoestring?
~ Orison Swett Marden
To-morrow! it is a period nowhere to be found in all the hoary registers of time, unless perchance in the fool's calendar. Wisdom
~ Orison Swett Marden
Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.
~ Oscar Wilde
I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after.
~ Oscar Wilde
I am always late on principle, my principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
~ Oscar Wilde
I have always been of opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.
~ Oscar Wilde
There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late
~ Oscar Wilde
Sometimes you have a little problem and you dont fix it and then all of a sudden it aint a little problem anymore.
~ Cormac McCarthy
People were always getting ready for tomorrow.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Every remedy for loneliness only postpones it.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Work gets done in the time available.
~ Cyril Northcote Parkinson
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion
~ Cyril Northcote Parkinson
Then a learning jumps to mind, that once you plan to do something, and figure how long it'll take, that's exactly how long Fate gives you before the next thing comes along to do.
~ D.B.C. Pierre
One of the tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
~ Dale Carnegie
Today is the tommorrow you worried about yesterday.
~ Dale Carnegie
Good Working Habit No. 3. When You Face a Problem, Solve It Then and There if You Have the Facts Necessary to Make a Decision. Don't Keep Putting off Decisions.
~ Dale Carnegie
Come, gentlemen, we sit too long on trifles.
~ Dale Carnegie
From this we may conclude that it behooves nations as well as men to do things at the very moment when they ought to be done.
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
Deje las cosas para más adelante.
~ Walter Isaacson
Tasks . . . she'd been putting off, she suddenly dove into, such as talking to Joel about sex. Instead of teaching him as she'd taught me — with the help of college nursing texts that made the sexual organs look like plants — she use the new Penthouse .
~ Walter Kirn
If you don't do it this year, you'll be one year older when you do.
~ Warren Miller
Don't pole-vault over mouse truds - by the time you've discussed the many options available to you, the problem itself could have been long behind you had you simply disposed of those rodent droppings with a simple tissue and dumped them into the garbage!
~ Wayne W. Dyer