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Quotes About Procrastination

If you wait overnight to fight back, all it means is the celebration drink is one day less fresh.
~ Yasuhiro Nightow
If you don't want to do something, one excuse is as good as another.
~ Yiddish Proverb
What am I going to do? Not read, anyway… I hate reading! Finally change that leaky shower head? Never! At least this way there's somebody to cry over my fate.
~ Zidrou & Aimée de Jongh
Most people wait until everything is just right before they do anything. They refuse to go out on a limb where the fruit is. They refuse to bet on themselves.
~ Zig Ziglar
Those who wait until all the lights are on green before starting will never leave home.
~ Zig Ziglar
Most of the problems in life are because of two reasons: we act without thinking or we keep thinking without acting.
~ Zig Ziglar
Procrastination is paralysis by fear, not astute planning. If you regularly have difficulty making decisions, look below the surface to identify your fears, and address them. Until you do, you'll be spending a lot of nights with the frogs.
~ Zig Ziglar
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."—ABRAHAM LINCOLN
~ Zig Ziglar
What is clutter but the physical manifestation of indecision, procrastination and not being entirely engaged in your own life?
~ Debora Robertson
One day you will wonder what was so important that you put off doing the most important things. 'Someday' can be a thief in the night.
~ Deborah Brown
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
~ Denis Waitley
Most people spend most of their time on low-priority busywork because it requires no additional knowledge, skills, or imagination-or courage. In a word, it's easier.
~ Denis Waitley
Don't be the person who has an overflowing cup of knowledge but an inactive state of action. That serves no-one, that serves no purpose.
~ Tony Curl
Laziness - The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
~ Idries Shah, Reflections
If we're not careful we spiritualize laziness.
~ Jeff Henderson
Inaction saps the vigor of the mind.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well.
~ Mark Twain
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
~ William Blake
You must head down your path to riches with a sense of urgency or else you'll fall prey to distractions, laziness, limiting beliefs, procrastination, binge watching TV shows. Work with diligent focus and grateful expectation, do all you can every day to the best of your ability, remember that the sooner you achieve your financial goals, the longer you get to spend on Earth basking in your riches.
~ Jen Sincero
Perfectionism is just procrastination in a fancy outfit.
~ Jen Sincero
Procrastination is one of the most popular forms of self-sabotage because it's really easy.
~ Jen Sincero
If you feel like you have all the time in the world to do something, you will take all the time in the world. If you have twenty minutes, the task will take you twenty minutes. Chunking down your time and demanding that you focus on one thing and one thing only creates urgency, maximizes your productivity, and frees up more time for you to do other things.
~ Jen Sincero
Postpone facing a fear and it's sure to grow bigger with each passing day
~ Jennifer Archer
I'll supervise, shall I?" offered Cogsworth. "To me, 'dust' is a four-letter word." "'Dust' is a four-letter word to everyone ," said Lumiere. "'Work' is also a four-letter word," said Plumette, under her breath. "Perhaps that is why monsieur strives to avoid it
~ Jennifer Donnelly