Quotes about procrastination

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

Acton, Lord on procrastination
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"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."

Anthony, Dr. Robert on procrastination
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"If you wait until the wind and the weather are just right, you will never plant anything and never harvest anything."

Bible on procrastination
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"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 on procrastination   

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

Billings, Josh on procrastination
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"He who hesitates is probably right."

Bogovich on procrastination   

"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."

Borges, Jorge Luis on procrastination   

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

Bucaro, Frank C. on procrastination
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"Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done."

Burr, Aaron on procrastination
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"In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved."

Butler, Samuel on procrastination   

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

Byrne, Robert on procrastination   

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

Cervantes, Miguel De on procrastination   

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

Collier, Robert on procrastination
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"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."

Cox, Marcelene on procrastination   

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

Deming, W. Edwards on procrastination   

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

Dyer, Wayne on procrastination
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"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."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on procrastination   

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

Franklin, Benjamin on procrastination
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"Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today."

Franklin, Benjamin on procrastination
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"He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner."

Franklin, Benjamin on procrastination   

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

Gardner, Donald on procrastination   

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

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

Gerard, Ralph on procrastination   

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on procrastination   

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

Gracian, Baltasar on procrastination
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"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."

Hammarskjold, Dag on procrastination
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"Don't wait. The time will never be just right."

Hill, Napoleon on procrastination
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"Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday."

Hill, Napoleon on procrastination
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"Tear thyself from delay."

Horace on procrastination
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"Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today."

Jefferson, Thomas on procrastination
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"Procrastination is opportunity's natural assassin."

Kiam, Victor on procrastination   

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

Lincoln, Abraham on procrastination
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"My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season."

Lincoln, Mary Todd on procrastination   

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

Lonmer, George H. on procrastination   

"How soon not now, becomes never."

Luther, Martin on procrastination
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"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."

Mandino, Og on procrastination
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"He who awaits much can expect little."

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia on procrastination
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"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."

Marquis, Don on procrastination
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"Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement."

Miller, Henry on procrastination   

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

Miller, Olin on procrastination