Quotes About Procrastination

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

A stitch in time saves nine.

Mr. Meant-to has a friend, his name is Didn't-Do. Have you met them? They live together in a house called Never-Win. And I am told that it is haunted by the Ghost of Might-have-Been.

Better late than never but never late is better. They tell me time is money well we'll spend it together.

So can you do me a favor? If I pull it together, make it sooner than later.

Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you 'don't have the time'.

Maybe it fostered in me a creeping ambition-deficit disorder, but it could ease an ache. So anything worth doing could be undertaken later. Paint the apartment, write a book, quit booze, sure: tomorrow. Which

You can do "research," i.e. postponing writing, till Jesus dons a nightie. But your memoir's real enemy is blinking back at you from the shaving glass when you floss at night—your ignorant ego and its myriad masks.

I wished, as it were, to procrastinate all that related to my feelings of affection until the great object, which swallowed up every habit of my nature, should be completed.

It was evening, and I had decided to take a preemptive nap because I had to write a paper later.  I could have written the paper and then just gone to bed like a normal person, but that made no sense to my college mind: what if Jesus had come back?  No, you put your schoolwork off.  To do otherwise was a lack of faith. 

Anything is better than doing what I'm supposed to be doing.

What are you? I asked. I'm the Ghost of the Night Before Exams. And how long did it take you to come up with that? Jazza asked. I'm a busy man, he replied.

He was usually her companion in avoiding things, but tonight he was letting her down. His fingers hadn't stopped moving all night.

Fine, he said. Anything is better than what I'm supposed to be doing.

Fine," he said. "Anything is better than doing what I'm supposed to be doing.

I think maybe it is true that the idle mind is the Devil's workshop.

There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.

right now. Today. I'd been foolish, a coward even, to have waited so

Too late always comes too early. She

Habits, too, have tremendous gravity pull—more than most people realize or would admit. Breaking deeply imbedded habitual tendencies such as procrastination, impatience, criticalness, or selfishness that violate basic principles of human effectiveness involves more than a little willpower and a few minor changes in our lives.

Do what is important rather than what is urgent.

Think carefully as you consider Quadrants I and III. It's easy to think because something is urgent, it's important. A quick way to differentiate between these two quadrants is to ask yourself if the urgent activity contributed to an important objective. If not, it probably belongs in Quadrant III.

Have you ever been too busy driving to take time to get gas?

Quadrant II is the heart of effective personal management. It deals with things that are not urgent, but are important. It deals with things like building relationships, writing a personal mission statement, long-range planning, exercising, preventive maintenance, preparation—all those things we know we need to do, but somehow seldom get around to doing, because they aren't urgent.