Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Procrastination
Quotations & Citations:
Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.
~Mark Twain
Procrastination is the thief of time.
~Edward Young
Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
~Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married
One of these days is none of these days.
~H.G. Bohn
You can’t just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
What mood is that?
Last-minute panic.~Bill Watterson
Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man.
~Jimmy Lyons
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone
~Pablo Picasso
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.
~Edward Young
You may delay, but time will not.
~Benjamin Franklin
Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.
~George Claude Lorimer
Procrastinate now, don’t put it off.
~Ellen DeGeneres
The time to begin most things is ten years ago.
~Mignon McLaughlin
Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.
~Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
~Spanish Proverb
A year from now you may wish you had started today.
~Karen Lamb
Procrastination is something best put off until tomorrow.
~Gerald Vaughan
If it weren’t for the last minute, nothing would get done.
~Rita Mae Brown
What may be done at any time will be done at no time.
~Scottish Proverb
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
~Abraham Lincoln
If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.
~Olin Miller
When faced with two equally tough choices, most people choose the third choice: to not choose.
~Jarod Kintz, This Book Title is Invisible
Procrastination is opportunity’s assassin.
~Victor Kiam
It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
~Leonardo da Vinci
To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.
~Eva Young
God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
~Augustine of Hippo
One of the greatest labor-saving inventions of today is tomorrow.
~Vincent T. Foss
If you choose to not deal with an issue,
then you give up your right of control over the issue
and it will select the path of least resistance.~Susan Del Gatto
It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.
~Earl of Chesterfield
Someday is not a day of the week.
~Janet Dailey
Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.
~Robert Benchley
Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.
~Holbrook Jackson
Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.
~Charles Kingsley
Plan to be spontaneous tomorrow.
~Steven Wright
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
~Don Marquis
We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
~Erica Jong, Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
~William James
Procrastination is my sin. It brings me naught but sorrow. I know that I should stop it. In fact, I will—tomorrow
~Gloria Pitzer
Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than risk failure, they prefer to create conditions that make success impossible, a reflex that of course creates a vicious cycle.
~James Surowiecki
The scholar’s greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.
~Stephen King, 11/22/63
If you believe you can accomplish everything by “cramming” at the eleventh hour, by all means, don’t lift a finger now. But you may think twice about beginning to build your ark once it has already started raining
~Max Brooks, The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead