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Quotes About Procrastination

The time for action is past! Now is the time for senseless bickering!
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
Take Time by the forelock.
~ Thales
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.
~ Michelangelo
Say not: "When I have free time I shall study", for you may perhaps never have any free time
~ Hillel the Elder
The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time
~ Leo Kennedy
You multiply your time by spending time on things today that will give you more time tomorrow.
~ Rory Vaden
The best time to start was last year. Failing that, today will do.
~ Chris Guillebeau
Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
~ Benjamin Franklin
If it's a good idea, do it today. Not tomorrow. A good idea rarely gets better over time.
~ Larry Winget
Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.
~ Charles Dickens
Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available.
~ C. Northcote Parkinson
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
~ James M. Barrie
The slacker does not plow during planting season; at harvest time he looks, and there is nothing.
~ Solomon
A man who does nothing never has time to do anything
~ Charles Spurgeon
Better late than never.
~ Livy
you have to do more than just kill time or time will quickly kill you.
~ Joan Rivers
...the more he did nothing, the less time he had to do anything.
~ Leo Tolstoy
There's never enough time to do nothing!
~ Daniel Radcliffe
If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem... break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.
~ Robert Collier
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.
~ William Shakespeare
I'm going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow!
~ Sam Levenson
There is always time for another last minute
~ Terry Pratchett, Hogfather