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Quotes About Procrastination

human beings can make: an excuse. Whoever said the road to Hell was paved with good intentions had gotten it all wrong. If you looked more closely, you could see that the road to Hell was paved with excuses.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
A spare tyre is something that you don't check until you have a punctured one.
~ Unknown
An alarm clock is a device to wake a man up who has no plans or intentions for the future that could make him wake up himself.
~ Unknown
Do it today! Yesterday is gone and tomorrow it might be forbidden.
~ Unknown
Do not leave to the morning the business of the evening.
~ Unknown
Do only one thing at a time. It is lazy people who want to do everything at the same time.
~ Unknown
Do today what you want to postpone until tomorrow.
~ Unknown
He who is in the habit of sitting in the shade will not take an axe to the tree.
~ Unknown
Never put off anything until tomorrow except anger and jealousy.
~ Unknown
No matter how busy idle people are, they always find time for everything.
~ Unknown
Some people get up and go others just get up and goof.
~ Unknown
The future is that time when you will wish you had done what you are not doing now.
~ Unknown
But he never makes a call to ask for help. He cannot put his finger on precisely what is stopping him. He has had time to think about it. It remains an enigma. He scoured the internet in search of advice for pathological procrastinators. He drew up lists of what he had to lose, what he would be risking, and what he had to gain. It made no difference. He calls no-one.
~ Virginie Despentes
Durante años me dije: "Por la mañana". Lo que, claro está, nunca ocurrió.
~ Vivian Gornick
Humans were capable of so many amazing things, but too often they just sat making words, not doing anything.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
I'm a last-minute shopper. I end up at the mall or somewhere on Christmas Eve. It's a shame.
~ Brad Paisley
There are 17 more shopping days until Christmas. So, guys, that means 16 more days till we start shopping, right?
~ Conan O'Brien
Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing.
~ William Feather
Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
~ Horace
There is no avoidance in delay.
~ Aeschylus, Agamemnon
How many of you have ever started dating because you were too lazy to commit a suicide?
~ Judy Tenuta
In case you're not a computer person, I should probably point out that 'Real Soon Now' is a technical term meaning 'sometime before the heat-death of the universe, maybe'.
~ Unknown
Sometimes too much thinking leads to the Death of Doing
~ Robin Sharma