Quotes About Procrastination

avoid procrastination and just begin from where we are, right here, right now.

There you have the deferrer's delight. As long as you say maybe, or hope, or wish, you can use these as a rationale for not doing anything now. All wishing and hoping are a waste of time—the folly of fairyland residents.

Think of yourself as too significant to live with anxiety about the things you have to do. So, the next time you know you are uncomfortable with postponement anxiety, remember that people who love themselves don't hurt themselves that way.

Putting it off as a way of life is one technique that you can use to avoid doing. A non-doer is very often a critic, that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It is easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk and change.

The early bird gets the worm but the late bird doesn't even get the late worm.

You put things off and then one morning you wake up and say—today I will change the oil in my truck.

The effort of decision, we have seen, is the greatest effort of life; not the doing of the thing, but the making up of one's mind as to which thing to do first. It is commonly this sort of mental indolence, born of indecision, which leads to dawdling habits.

A war put off is not a war avoided.

What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be

Die, damn you! Maybe tomorrow. Just now I'm busy.

Will you do it later or will you do it now?

Instead of organizing and cleaning my house, I pin ideas on how to organize and clean my house. The irony is not lost on me.

But I... never could make a good impromptu speech without several hours to prepare it.

The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The next best time is now.

Idleness is the beginning of all vices.

People gather bundles of sticks to build bridges they never cross.

Aries: "I was going to do that but then you told me to."

Don't put off your happy life.

The toothbrush doesn't remove six months of tartar 30 minutes before your appointment.

He marries best who puts it off until it is too late.

Decisions that lead to no action, like a decision to start a new diet tomorrow, are no decisions at all. That's why is so easy to make New Year's resolutions.

Almost from the moment votes are counted, lame-duck chief executives invariably recede into superfluity, but Lincoln's hapless predecessor, James Buchanan, made procrastination into an art form. He could not have excused himself from responsibility at a more portentous moment, or left his successor with graver problems to address once he was constitutionally entitled to do so.

Human nature is above all things lazy.

Humankind above all is lazy.