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Quotes About Procrastination

Too often, we put up with mediocrity, telling ourselves that later in life we'll do what we want.
~ Daniel Willey
What you don't deal with today, will live to deal with tomorrow.
~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
What you don't deal with today, will live to deal with you tomorrow.
~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
The most overpowering will is the will to not work.
~ Saleem Sharma
I have work to do, and I am afraid not to do it.
~ John O'Hara
The more you get done now, the less you'd have to do later!
~ John Price
"Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel"
~ John Quincy Adams
Procrastinate later.
~ John Vorhaus
That was on a Tuesday, and for the next two days the manuscript lay untouched on his desk. For reasons that he did not fully understand, he could not bring himself to open the folder, to begin the reading which a few months before would have been a duty of pleasure. He watched it warily, as if it were an enemy that was trying to entice him again into a war that he had renounced.
~ John Williams
one never lazes about more happily than when one has no idea where to start, in the face of all one has to do, and one never works more happily than when one actually has nothing on hand'.31 But that could hardly have been less true of him at just that moment. Not
~ John Worthen
every day it was tomorrow that I'd be able to do it, and each day it became more difficult.
~ John Wyndham
bet you homework
~ John Zakour
Procrastinate now, don't put it off.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
It was the right and responsible thing to do, so they put it off until later.
~ Ellen Potter
I think you have a case of either 'testitis' or 'I Didn't Do My Homework Syndrome'. It's common in the Spring.
~ Ellen Schreiber
Everything I didn't do yesterday Added to everything I haven't done today Plus everything I won't do tomorrow-completely exhausts me!
~ Emilie Barnes
A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
~ Emily Bronte
Whate'er there be of Sorrow I'll put off till To-morrow, And when To-morrow comes, why then 'T will be To-day and Joy again.
~ bangs john kendrick ii
Clutter is postponed decisions.
~ Barbara Hemphill
You do not put off things because they threaten you, because you are afraid; It was a rule of life.
~ Barbara Vine
Look, my dad has a saying - we'll burn that bridge when get to it. OK? You get it? Worry about tomorrow, tomorrow.
~ Barry Lyga
My biggest mistake: not wanting to help myself into thinking I am happy, that change would come about without really trying to change, or wanting to change. Procrastinating about changing. I do want to change.
~ Beatrice Sparks
People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society.
~ John Roberts
The rest-seeking procrastinators would generally rather not exert themselves at all, while the fun-task procrastinators enjoy being busy and active all the time but have a hard time starting things that are not so amusing.
~ Daniel Levitin