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Quotes About Procrastination

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today, because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again, tomorrow.
~ Anonymous
The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow.
~ William Cowper
You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.
~ Barbara Sher
Live wastes itself while we are preparing to live.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Today's egg is better than tomorrow's hen.
~ Turkish proverb
We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
One today is worth two tomorrows.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
~ Benjamin Franklin
My mother said, "You won't amount to anything because you procrastinate." I said, "Just wait."
~ Judy Tenuta
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
~ Jules Renard
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.
~ Proverbs
Can anything be sadder than work unfinished? Yes; work never begun.
~ Christina Rossetti
Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
~ Robert Half
Sloth is the mother of poverty.
~ American Proverb
I need to get my life together, but I'm kinda waiting to see if the world is gonna end before I put in any real effort.
~ Internet meme
Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out.
~ Italian proverb
The spiritual leader will not procrastinate when faced with a decision, nor vacillate after making it. A sincere but faulty decision is better than weak-willed trial balloons or indecisive overtures. To postpone decision is really to decide for the status quo. In most decisions the key element is not so much knowing what to do but in living with the results.
~ J. Oswald Sanders
When I sit here and mope and don't do anything and can't do anything, then I actually feel the time slipping away from me. Hours and weeks and months rush past with nothing in them, and I can't nail them to the spot with a piece of work.
~ J. P. (Jens Peter) Jacobsen
Paperwork could kill.
~ J.D. Robb
Sure baby, mañana. It was always mañana. For the next few weeks that was all I heard––mañana a lovely word and one that probably means heaven.
~ Jack Kerouac
For the next week that was all I heard - manana, a lovely word and one that probably means heaven.
~ Jack Kerouac
Sure, baby, mañana." It was always mañana. For the next week that was all I heard—mañana,a lovely word and one that probably means heaven.
~ Jack Kerouac
For the next week that was all I heard – mañana, a lovely word and one that probably means heaven. Little
~ Jack Kerouac
Everything'll be all right tomorrow, don't you think, Sal-honey, man? Sure, baby, manana.  It was always manana
~ Jack Kerouac