Quotes About Procrastination

As a writer, you sit around a computer all day, and it's too easy to open another tab and keep Rotten Tomatoes there.

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; you shall perhaps not do tomorrow.

Tomorrow is a thief of pleasure.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

Sometimes my mistake has been hesitancy about acting on the decisions I've made. When's the best time to invest? It's today, not tomorrow.

If I don't do laundry today, I'm gonna have to buy new clothes tomorrow.

I can't even plan tomorrow.

Why stress tomorrow when you can stress today?

If you're going to have to swallow a frog, you don't want to have to look at that sucker too long!

There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.

I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!

When it comes to sermon writing, generally there are two problems. Some preachers love the research stage but hate the writing, and they start writing too late. Others don't like doing research, so they move way too fast to the writing part.

He who considers too much will perform little.

If I can do something in less than one minute, I don't let myself procrastinate. I hang up my coat, put newspapers in the recycling, scan and toss a letter. Ever since I wrote about this rule in 'The Happiness Project,' I've been amazed by how many people have told me that it has made a huge difference in their lives.

I crave deadlines. If I don't have a deadline, I become a total slacker, which is why I always have so much on my plate.

Whenever you have a job to do ask yourself two questions. If not now, when? If not by me, by whom?

Pay now and play later or play now and pay later.

I am as late as the rabbit in Lewis Carroll.

If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you don't wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes.

If age teaches you anything, then one of its lessons is certainly not to hurry if you're already late....

better late than sorry.

Soon is not as good as now.