Quotes About Procrastination

Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or think you can, begin it! Only engage, and then the mind grows heated; Begin it, and the work will be completed.

If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life.

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head.

I've been so lazy all my life. I used to literally lie on the couch, up until the age of 35, fearing that my bones were dissolving like sugar cubes, from disuse.

Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.

You really don't have a life when you're working. I always think "oh, I'm gonna see everybody on my days off. I'm gonna read so many books and see so many films" and then three months go by.

I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.

Life is not too short... we just wait too long to begin it.

Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely.

Which is the most universal human characteristic: fear, or laziness?

In everyday life there is always manana. There is no urgency

Every thing in human character goes to wreck, under the reign of procrastination, while prompt action gives to all things a corresponding and proportional life and energy.

By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there's no more future left for them.

If you hang around waiting for the right answer, you're going to be waiting all your life.

And the sooner you do the right thing, the better. You get it over with, and you don't have to worry about it anymore. But who does that in real life?

A perfect method of adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large.

So much of life [is] a putting-off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing [is] ever lost by delay.

I sit around too much, waiting for other people to do stuff and angsting about stuff they've done, without doing anything myself.

You mustn't put off what you think right," said Hamidullah. "That is why India is in such a plight, because we put off things.

It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Our mistake wasn't that we didn't do what we could have done, rather that we didn't know that we should have done it earlier.