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Quotes About Procrastination

in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know.
~ Anthony Robbins
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. —BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
~ Anthony Robbins
Prove to yourself that you've decided now. Make one or two decisions that you've been putting off: one easy decision and one that's a bit more difficult. Show yourself what you can do. Right now, stop. Make at least one clear-cut decision that you've been putting off—take the first action toward fulfilling it—and stick to it! By doing this, you'll be building that muscle that will give you the will to change your entire life.
~ Anthony Robbins
Se ha llegado a decir que «matar el tiempo no es asesinato, sino suicidio».
~ Anthony Robbins
idleness is the root of all evil.
~ Anthony Trollope
As usual, there aren't enough last minutes.
~ Arbinger Institute
You can only waste the passing moment. You cannot waste to-morrow; it is kept for you.
~ Arnold Bennett
We shall never have more time. We have, and have always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going day in and day out. Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.
~ Arnold Bennett
Apart from this common Lassan tendency to procrastinate, Kumar's chief defects were an adventurous nature and a fondness for sometimes risky practical jokes. This
~ Arthur C. Clarke
I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
There are in me the makings of a very fine loafer...
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I'm not sure about whether I shall go. I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather--that is, when the fit is on me, for I can be spry enough at times.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
In delay, there lies no plenty
~ Shirley Jackson
In delay there lies no plenty, present mirth hath present laughter.
~ Shirley Jackson
The more haste, the less speed
~ Shirley Jackson
Not now.It's too late.It was always too late.
~ Sidney Sheldon
God! when you think of all the things you could do and yet somehow never do! All the opportunities you let slip by! The idea, the inspiration just doesn't come fast enough. Instead of being open, you're closed up tight. Thats's the worst sin of all - the sin of omission.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
I'm not sure about whether I shall go. I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather -- that is, when the fit is on me, for I can be spry enough at times. ~ Sherlock Holmes
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
There's always a blip! There's always a crisis! Every year you put off doing anything fun—
~ Sophie Kinsella
Twaddle, rubbish, and gossip is what people want, not action....The secret of life is to chatter freely about all one wishes to do and how one is always being prevented--and then do nothing.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
It is all very well planning what you will do in six months, what you will do in a year, but it's no good at all if you don't have a plan for tomorrow.
~ Hilary Mantel
There's a deep-freeze of sorts for all good intentions - a place that you store your plans to make changes in your life when you know you're not going to make them at all.
~ Jeffrey Kluger
A life postponed too long might never be lived.
~ Joan Slonczewski
He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
~ Horace