Quotes about procrastination

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

— Lord Acton

Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don't count.

— Dr. Robert Anthony

If you wait until the wind and the weather are just right, you will never plant anything and never harvest anything.

— Bible

Elijah went before the people and said, How long will you waver between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him. But the people said nothing. [1 Kings 18:21]

— Bible

Don't put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today.

— Josh Billings

He who hesitates is probably right.

— Bogovich

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Don't wait for someone to take you under their wing. Find a good wing and climb up underneath it.

— Frank C. Bucaro

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.

— Aaron Burr

In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.

— Samuel Butler

There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.

— Robert Byrne

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

— Miguel De Cervantes

If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem... break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.

— Robert Collier

When a man does a household job, he goes through three periods: contemplating how it will be done; contemplating when it will be done; and contemplating.

— Marcelene Cox

The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.

— W. Edwards Deming

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

— Wayne Dyer

Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

You may delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again.

— Benjamin Franklin

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

— Benjamin Franklin

He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner.

— Benjamin Franklin

Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing!

— Donald Gardner

There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.

— David Lloyd George

No age or time of life, no position or circumstance, has a monopoly on success. Any age is the right age to start doing!

— Ralph Gerard

If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can everything.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

— Baltasar Gracian

When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish-it is then that you must not hesitate.

— Dag Hammarskjold

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

— Napoleon Hill

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

— Napoleon Hill

Tear thyself from delay.

— Horace

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

— Thomas Jefferson

Procrastination is opportunity's natural assassin.

— Victor Kiam

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

— Abraham Lincoln

My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.

— Mary Todd Lincoln

Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard one makes it impossible.

— George H. Lonmer

How soon not now, becomes never.

— Martin Luther

To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.

— Og Mandino

He who awaits much can expect little.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

— Don Marquis

Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.

— Henry Miller

If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.

— Olin Miller

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

— C. Northcote Parkinson

If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.

— Norman Vincent Peale

Procrastination is my sin. It brings me naught but sorrow. I know that I should stop it. In fact, I will--tomorrow!

— Gloria Pitzer

He who begins and does not finish loves their pains.

— Proverb

We hate delays by others, but sometimes it makes us wise.

— Proverb

One of these days, is none of these days.

— Proverb

Begin to weave and God will give the thread.

— German Proverb

Never put off today what you can put off tomorrow.

— Spanish Proverb

Manana is often the busiest day of the week.

— Spanish Proverb

Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.

— Charles Richter

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

— Haile Selassie

We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.

— Seneca

Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.

— William Shakespeare

There are those of us who are always about to live. We are waiting until things change, until there is more time, until we are less tired, until we get a promotion, until we settle down -- until, until, until. It always seems as if there is some major event that must occur in our lives before we begin living.

— George Sheehan

All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.

— Publilius Syrus

During a very busy life I have often been asked, How did you manage to do it all? The answer is very simple. It is because I did everything promptly.

— Richard Tangye

It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish.

— J. R. Tolkien

The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started.

— Dawson Trotman

... if we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.

— Ivan Turgenev

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

— Mark Twain

All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.

— Source Unknown

I remember reading somewhere about an organization called Procrastinators Anonymous. I think they had been in existence for some years but had never gotten around to having a meeting.

— Source Unknown

Someday is not a day of the week.

— Source Unknown

The best labor saving device is doing it tomorrow

— Source Unknown

Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.

— Denis Waitley

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

— Mae West

Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.

— Woodrow T. Wilson

Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.

— Woodrow T. Wilson

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

— Andrew Young

Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.

— Edward Young

Progress is a process, your going hate waiting, but its better then Procrastination, Get on your Job

— Authentic James

In delay there lies no plenty, Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty. Youth's a stuff will not endure.

— William Shakespeare

He who hesitates is last.

— Mae West