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Quotes About Procrastination

I heard a man say he needed to lose weight before he could start running. Imagine that. Lose the weight so he could initiate the running habit. That's like a writer who waits for inspiration to begin the book, or the manager who waits for a promotion to lead the field, or a startup that waits for full funding before launching a status quo–disrupting product. The flow of life rewards positive action and punishes hesitation.
~ Robin S. Sharma
Procrastination is an act of self-hatred
~ Robin S. Sharma
She told me that the best time to plant a tree was forty years ago. The second best time is today.
~ Robin S. Sharma
Tomorrow Is a Bonus, Not a Right. Postpone not your heroism and never delay your peacefulness. Your life can fall apart within an hour.
~ Robin S. Sharma
Understand that your days are numbered. And with the passage of each glorious morning, you grow closer to your end. Don't put off expressing your gifts and talents. And make certain you enjoy this ride. Have a good time as you rise toward your magnificence. It's so sad how most people postpone having a beautiful, fun and magical life until they are too old to fully savor it.
~ Robin S. Sharma
Never put off the things that are important for your well-being and satisfaction to a later time.
~ Robin S. Sharma
aunque lucho mucho contra la procrastinación.
~ Robin S. Sharma
the best time to plant a tree was forty years ago. The second best time is today.
~ Robin S. Sharma
Why postpone what you can do today to some time off in the distance? Why put off playing your greatest game as a human being to some point in the future?
~ Robin S. Sharma
Dale Carnegie wrote, "One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
~ Robin S. Sharma
We are always getting ready to live, but never living." Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Robin S. Sharma
Procrastination is an act of self-hatred, you know?
~ Robin S. Sharma
Postpone not your heroism and never delay your peacefulness.
~ Robin S. Sharma
Una de las cosas más trágicas que conozco de la naturaleza humana es que todos tendemos a posponer la vida. Todos soñamos con algún mágico jardín de rosas en el horizonte, en vez de disfrutar de las rosas que florecen hoy delante de nuestra ventana».
~ Robin S. Sharma
The time you least feel like doing something is the best time to do it.
~ Robin Sharma
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
~ Robin Sharma
Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.
~ Roger von Oech
Murad muttered that everything had to wait till he was older, and at this rate there would be so much piled up for him to do, there would be no time for it all.
~ Rohinton Mistry
Sadly, the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time. Conditions are never perfect. "Someday" ("someday I'll do this, someday I'll do that") is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro
~ Rolf Potts
Sticking with his habitual policy of creative procrastination, Rockefeller promised nothing and invited Gates for breakfast the next morning.
~ Ron Chernow
So why did Senior procrastinate in giving him his money?
~ Ron Chernow
Are you going to write the accident report?" Summer asked. "For Willard? Not yet." "He'll expect it today." "I know. But I'm going to make him ask, one more time." "Why?" "I guess because it's a fascinating experience. Like watching maggots writhing around in something that died." "What died?" "My enthusiasm for getting out of bed in the morning.
~ Lee Child
She looked at her watch. She said, "Why is it when someone says between two hours and four hours it's always nearer four hours than two hours?" "Parkinson's disease," Shorty said. "Work expands to take up as much time as there is." "Law," Patty said. "Not disease. That's when you get the shakes.
~ Lee Child
Laziness and complacency.
~ Lee Child