Quotes About Procrastination

Why do people who read Shakespeare still spend hours watching shitty TV or staring out of the window or arguing about whose dinner party to go to?

Josh Riebock, in his book Heroes and Monsters, says, "Everyone can change tomorrow. Everyone solves problems tomorrow. But the only changes that matter are the ones I make today. Tomorrow is the easiest day I'll ever live. Today is the scary one, which is probably why I've spent so much time avoiding it."[5]

Procrastination isn't a sign there's something wrong with us but that there's opportunity for growth in our lives.

If decision making taxes our self-regulation, then an easy response is to minimize decisions before tackling something we've been procrastinating.

Procrastination is a dangerous habit to develop, and it carries a high cost not only to our schedules but also to our hearts, spiritual lives, relationships, and finances. There's a snowball effect of delayed tasks. And as they accumulate, we are further from the life we want and from the person we want to be. We even procrastinate when God gives us an assignment, and then we walk in disobedience. Which creates entirely new issues.

God has promised forgiveness to your repentance; but he has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination. St. Augustine

Starting a task or project can be a challenge for a procrastinator. But the only way we strengthen our starting muscles is to start. Then do it again and again.

Do you fear doing it? You haven't started feeling the effect of not doing it.

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting over lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

What's left undone today, tomorrow will not do." Faust

Laziness is not a handicap — park somewhere else!

If you don't want to do something, one excuse is as good as another.

Exercise?! I thought you said "extra slice."

Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow.

God made time, but man made haste.

When it comes to eating right and exercising, there is no "I'll start tomorrow." Tomorrow is disease.

He who gives when he is asked has waited too long.

Laundry: Washing — 30 minutes Drying — 60 minutes Putting away — 7 to 10 business days

Rake leaves or move? I can't decide.

Experience, my dear lady, has taught me a sad truth: time flows in one direction only! As the days pass none of us grows younger. Sometimes we postpone glorious schemes only to discover in the end that they never have materialized! Procrastination is the thief of life!

Don't put off what you can do today because if you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.

The lazy man does the hardest work"

When you don't choose, you excuse.

Tell me,' he said, 'what is this thing about time? Why is it better to be late than early? People are always saying, we must wait. What are they waiting for?