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Quotes About Procrastination

The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.
~ Lewis Carroll
The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday—but never jam to-day ." "It must come sometimes to 'jam to-day,'" Alice objected. "No, it ca'n't," said the Queen. "It's jam every other day: to-day isn't any other day, you know
~ Lewis Carroll
I don't see how he can ever finish, if he doesn't begin.
~ Lewis Carroll
Pues la regla es: mermelada mañana y mermelada ayer... pero nunca mermelada hoy.
~ Lewis Carroll
Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared.
~ Lucan
In spite of all our speeding it's still the style to be late.
~ Kin Hubbard
The faster you go, the idler you get.
~ Ferreira Gullar
Tomorrow is the devil's day, but today is God's. Satan does not care how spiritual your intentions are, or how holy your resolutions, if only they are determined to be done tomorrow.
~ J. C. Ryle
When we get the inspiration from Heave to do something. We do it now. We don't procrastinate.
~ William R. Walker
Nothing makes a player more productive than the last minute.
~ John Kessel
Organized people are just too lazy to go looking for what they want.
~ Albert Einstein
If it isn't urgent, worry about it later
~ Albert Einstein
Never put off till to-morrow the fun you can have to-day.
~ Aldous Huxley
A gramme in time saves nine.
~ Aldous Huxley
As horas que crescem no lado direito dos relógios devem ser esticadas com ajuda da preguiça, pois são elas as que mais seguramente levam para a morte.
~ Alejo Carpentier
That, of course, is always a good time to think—when you know that you are going to have to do something, but you know that you do not have to do it just yet.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
she sipped at her 1st cup of red bush tea, not in any hurry to do whatever it was that she had to do next. That, of course, is always a good time to think - when you know that you are going to have to do something, but you know that you do not have to do it just yet.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
I am orderly out of spirit of idleness, to save myself the trouble of looking after things...
~ Alexandre Dumas
Logic would dictate that if we really wanted to change our lives, we would just do it. Instead, we usually put off goals until next Monday. When Monday comes around, we reschedule the goal until some other time. We never feel quite prepared to start, always feeling a little short on money, time, or expertise.
~ Doreen Virtue
Yet when it comes to going straight to the appointments we make with ourselves and our own fulfillment, we all act very much like the hero of this silly fable: we drive the wrong way. We fail where we might have succeeded by spending the same power and time.
~ Dorothea Brande
You can't say, I won't write today because that excuse will extend into several days, then several months, then... you are not a writer anymore, just someone who dreams about being a writer.
~ Dorothy C. Fontana
I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
~ Douglas Adams
Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.
~ Douglas Horton
A quel instant "pas maintenant" se transforme en "jamais
~ Douglas Kennedy