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Quotes About Procrastination

said. "I'm just not ready yet." It would take something other than my daily nagging. So one night, a night I knew would be
~ Elizabeth McCracken
Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow.
~ Elizabeth Smart
The long days seduce all thought away, and we lie like the lizards in the sun, postponing our lives indefinitely.
~ Elizabeth Smart
It's hopeless! Tomorrow there'll be even more books I should have read than there are today.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm - it was gone.
~ Author Unknown
Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.
~ Author Unknown
The hardest work in the world is that which should have been done yesterday.
~ Author Unknown
The important thing to remember about procrastination is that the perception of difficulty can be just as important as the actual difficulty. In addition, every day you don't do the task, it grows in your head, which makes the task seem more and more difficult.
~ B.J. Fogg
Lazy But Talented
~ Baby Lou
I don't think of myself as a fast reader. I just read a lot. When someone else might think, 'I might do the dishes,' I don't. But then the dishes multiply.
~ Elizabeth Strout
Left to my own devices, I'd probably Google myself all day.
~ Bill Clegg
I think I grew a grey watching you procrastinate.
~ Brandon Boyd
I have a collection of ukuleles. I meant to graduate to the guitar, but I never did.
~ Jacinda Ardern
My worst habit is taking too long in the shower.
~ Raymond Ablack
I still have this habit, I guess, continued from college, where I procrastinate up until the last moment.
~ Melina Matsoukas
How many consultants does it take to change a lightbulb? I'll have an estimate for you a week from Monday.
~ Garrison Keillor
BETTER LATE THAN NEVER
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.
~ George Bernard Shaw
You show me a lazy prick who's lying in bed all day, watching TV, only occasionally getting up to piss, and I'll show you a guy who's not causing any trouble.
~ George Carlin
No, said Godfrey, with a keen decisiveness of tone, in contrast with his usually careless and unemphatic speech—there's debts we can't pay like money debts, by paying extra for the years that have slipped by. While I've been putting off and putting off, the trees have been growing—it's too late now. Marner was in the right in what he said about a man's turning away a blessing from his door: it falls to somebody else.
~ George Eliot
I will wait till after Christmas." What should we all do without the calendar, when we want to put off a disagreeable duty? The admirable arrangements of the solar system, by which our time is measured, always supply us with a term before which it is hardly worthwhile to set about anything we are disinclined to.
~ George Eliot
What should we all do without the calendar, when we want to put off a disagreeable duty? The admirable arrangements of the solar system, by which our time is measured, always supply us with a term before which it is hardly worth while to set about anything we are disinclined to.
~ George Eliot
The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
~ Ivan Turgenev