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Quotes About Procrastination

So that feeling came again, even though I tried to keep it out: that we were doing all of this too late; that there'd once been a time for it, but we'd let that go by, and there was something ridiculous, reprehensible even, about the way we were now thinking and planning.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Y se resumía en lo siguiente: lo estábamos haciendo demasiado tarde. Había habido un tiempo para ello, pero lo habíamos dejado pasar, y había algo de ridículo, e incluso de censurable, en el modo en que ahora concebíamos y planeábamos nuestro futuro.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Year after year goes by, and nothing gets better. All we do is argue and debate and procrastinate. Any decent idea is amended to ineffectuality by the time it's gone half-way through the various committees it's obliged to pass through. The few people qualified to know what's what are talked to a standstill by ignorant people all around them.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
He put his life on hold as he waited for his life to begin.
~ Keith Donohue
I have things to not do, and not a lot of time to not do them in.
~ Kelly Link
Can't believe they're running when they're not even late. This used to be a nice, lazy class.
~ Ken Akamatsu
She had always liked what Scarlett O'Hara said in Gone with the Wind: I'll think about it tomorrow. Not anymore.
~ Ken Follett
It was a bold request, but she hated delay: an hour turned into a day, and a day turned into a week, and bright ideas died from lack of oxygen.
~ Ken Follett
Habrá que cruzar ese puente cuando se llegue a él.
~ Ken Follett
When this is all over, I told myself, you will hate yourself for wasting so much time . .
~ Ken Kesey
If you think there is no time to write now, there would never be.
~ Pawan Mishra
God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
~ Saint Augustine
Procrastination is what we often call 'resistance.'
~ William Peter Blatty
Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would,"Like the poor cat i' the adage.
~ William Shakespeare
Delays have dangerous ends.
~ William Shakespeare
There's time enough for that.
~ William Shakespeare
By and by is easily said.
~ William Shakespeare
She liked to 'leave dishes to soak', an act of self-deception that I've always abhorred.
~ David Nicholls
He was inefficient in the old sense of the word; not incapable, but unwilling to be seduced by work--unwilling to be singleminded. Those things that needed to be done were constantly put off for those things that needed to be thought about. And unfinished projects did not pester him to be completed, but represented, in themselves, thoughts he had not finished thinking....
~ David Rhodes
Inaction only makes a task more daunting in your eye. Act quickly, before you overthink, get anxious or give up.
~ Avina Celeste
Dreams become regrets when left in the mind, never planted in the soil of action.
~ Auliq-Ice
Do not wait too long in living your dreams.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Today Never Comes, Tomorrow Never Stops
~ shashidhar sa
All The Woulda-Coulda-ShouldasLayin' In The Sun, Talkin' 'Bout The ThingsThey Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda Done...But All Those Woulda-Coulda-ShouldasAll Ran Away And HidFrom One Little Did.
~ Shel Silverstein