Quotes About Procrastination

The loiterer often blames delay on his more active friend.

Work begins when the fear of doing nothing at all finally trumps the terror of doing it badly.

Forget motivation; just get used to doing things straight away.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Remember, it is the nature of the ignorant mind to be drawn towards things that will cause harm and to avoid things that are good. We must remember that what tempts us will in all probability be the cause of our downfall. What we shy away from, what we procrastinate about, probably is what will help us evolve.' So

For 78 years, four months and three weeks I've been meaning to overcome this fatal habit of postponing the boring by quickly doing something nice instead -- oh dear!

It won't get any easier in five minutes." When faced with something you really don't want to do but know you should—like

Diana Delonzor

But to procrastinate and prevaricate simply because you're afraid of erring, when others — I mean our brethren in Germany — must make infinitely more difficult decisions every day, seems to me almost to run counter to love. To delay or fail to make decisions may be more sinful than to make wrong decisions out of faith and love." (Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, 218)

Her dissertation on Dutch women painters of the Golden Age sits unfinished in her apartment, a half-typed sheet of paper mildewing in the mouth of a Remington. It's been months since she worked on it and she sometimes finds herself staring at the machine's bullnose profile or the chrome-plated carriage return, thinking: Remington also makes rifles.

No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. That task becomes a nightmare.

Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought

I think that's the lesson you learn in life. As you get older you realize you're never going to grow up and you're never going to be ready. And you may, as well, do things now, don't wait

The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.

Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.

The day after tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your life - that way you've always got a couple of days in hand.

Those who are late will be punished by life itself.

Life is a game board. Time is your opponent. If you procrastinate, you will lose the game. You must make a move to be victorious.

When we postpone the harvest, the fruit rots, but when we postpone our problems, they keep on growing.

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.