Quotes About Procrastination

Better never than late.

Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out.

People who have nothing much in mind for next week speak instead about the next century or millennium.

She was the kind of person who would see a pot overflowing on the stove and come and tell you about it, instead of picking it up and moving it off the burner. And then she would be proud of herself for acting quickly in a crisis.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

But the tomorrow upon which I was to make my decision never, in the form in which I had envisaged it, arrived.

When writers stop to sharpen pencils or get up and make coffee to procrastinate, they still stay in their heads with their characters. But when you zip over to read email or check your Facebook page, you get zapped out of the fictive dream. It's brutal on my writing.

When writers say that they need to 'set the mood' or 'get into the zone', those are all ways to procrastinate. Not prerequisites.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

The man who has done nothing but wait for his ship to come in has already missed the boat.

Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest.

Indecision is like a stepchild: if he doesn't wash his hands, he is called dirty; if he does, he is wasting the water.

Some persons are very decisive when it comes to avoiding decisions.

If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use tonight.

Most people don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.

Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it.

The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards; they will be dissipated, lost and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.

To always be intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed.

The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.

Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision.

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.