Quotes About Procrastination

Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.

The man who procrastinates is always struggling with misfortunes.

Diligence increaseth the fruit of toil. A dilatory man wrestles with losses.

Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until the day before his anniversary to buy his wife a gift.

The man that will nocht quhen he may Sall haif nocht quhen he wald.

Everything comes to the man who won't wait.

The ruin of most men dates from some idle moment.

The world is blessed most by men who do things, and not by those who merely talk about them. -James Oliver 'Tomorrow I will live,' the fool does say; tomorrow itself is late; the wise live yesterday.

Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death.

The irresolute man flecks from one egg to another, so hatches nothing.

But blast the man, with curses loud and deep, Whate'er the rascal's name, or age, or station, Who first invented, and went round advising, That artificial cut-off, Early Rising!

And while I at length debate and beate the bush, There shall steppe in other men and catch the burdes.

My mom gave me one of those cloth calendars for the kitchen. It took me three hours to sew in a dental appointment.

As my mom says, I was a little bit of a slacker in high school. I really was just kind of unmotivated, a little bit lazy, so my grades weren't that good.

If only I had more money is the easiest way to postpone the intense self-examination and decision-making necessary to create a life of enjoyment - now and not later.

I just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can't get killed by a blank?

Writing is 90% procrastination. It is a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write.

If you really think about it, hitting the snooze button in the morning doesn't even make sense. It's like saying, 'I hate getting up in the morning-so I do it over... and over... and over again.'

That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed.

You never put off until tomorrow or even this afternoon what you can do this morning. Attack the objective when your desire is strongest.

For Fang, getting out of bed in the morning is a career move.

Never check email first thing in the morning. Instead, complete your most important task before 11:00 A.M. to avoid using lunch or reading email as a postponement excuse.

I woke up at five o'clock in the morning with the whole first paragraph in my head. Now, this just shows what a slothful person I am: I tried to go back to sleep.

So I always get in some kind of situation where next thing I know it's four a.m. and I go, uh oh, I have a photo session first thing in the morning!