Procrastination Quotes

Where procrastination and excuses reign, success is highly missed than delayed. Opportunity they say comes but once. You must therefore be prepared to tap every good opportunity that appears on your way

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Be prepared before you begin. You save yourself from delay if you are fully prepared. Preparation sets you for excellence.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Take excuses and procrastination as your enemies. Let them see you and frown their faces and bypass you without greetings. You will excel if you don’t internalize the habit of giving excuses.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Now-people” are winners, they say “now” and they do it “now”! Do not delay.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If you really want succeed in what you do, obey this rule;... Wake up very early, go to bed lately... Occupy your time usefully!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Majority of excuses are deliberate attempts to keep success far away. Eventually, the success goes away because that is the command excuses gave out; pack and go!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Don't wait for people to dress your bed for you, do it yourself and you'll be glad to sleep and feel relaxed.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

You can dance in the storm. Don't wait for the rain to be over before because it might take too long. You can can do it now. Wherever you are, right now, you can start, right now; this very moment.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Procrastination is definitely not your friend of your God's given destiny. It is nothing but a dream stealer.

~ Hafiz

The air was filled with phantoms... and... the misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power forever.

~ Charles Dickens

A year from now you may wish you had started today.

~ Karen Lamb

When you have a plan in your mind of what the best life is for you, but it doesn't match your life, you have pain.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I wake up every morning thinking about all the great things I am going to accomplish that day, and I go to bed every night thinking about all the even greater things I’m going to have to accomplish tomorrow to make up for the nothing I did today.

~ John A. Ashley

Imagine what your life would be like if you were completely uninhibited by fear, pride, or procrastination. What would you be capable of? Anything.

~ Richie Norton

Think of the most discouraging thing that you are currently carrying or the biggest project you can’t seem to tackle. Forget about how it happened, forget about how you got there, just look at the clock, and before that number changes, do one little thing to make it better. After you do, enjoy your moment of victory, and then do it again. In less than the time it takes you to blink, the past will burden you no more.

~ Dan Pearce

If you have goals and procrastination, you have nothing. If you have goals and you take action, you will have anything you want.

~ Thomas J. Vilord

No more excuses or procrastination! Stop allowing your days to be stolen by busy nothingness and take calculated steps towards your goals.

~ Steve Maraboli

Nobody is responsible for your sorrows and poverty, not even the devil. It is the work of the enemies of time that lives in some men, and their names are, 'Laziness and Procrastination'.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Today and tomorrow is an illusion, days are all joined together, and if you are waiting for your time, you are wasting your time.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

So many had burned opportunities in the name of postponement, believing that another opportunity will arise. They fail to seize the spur of the moment, without thinking that maybe, that could be their last chance to actualize their long nurtured dreams. Achieving your heart desires in this century requires your alertness, diligence, and overcoming the hindrances that procrastination brings.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Procrastination and excuses are sour spices that spoil the sweet taste of an effective work. They must hence, not be prompted under desire, partly because they are strictly time-stripping and also because they have no known essence.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Whatever actions you take, keep in mind that over the course of life, you will fail far more from timidity, procrastination, and carefulness than you will from just stepping up to the plate and, as we say in Australia, giving it a bloody go!

~ Margie Warrell

Do you write every day?' 'Oh, no. Oh, I sort of try. I don't work very hard, really. Really I'm on vacation. All the time. Or you could say I work all the time, too. It comes to the same thing.' He'd said all this before, to others; he wondered if he'd said it to her. 'It's like weekend homework. Remember? There wasn't ever a time you absolutely had to do it - there was always Saturday, then Sunday - but then there wasn't ever a time when it wasn't there to do, too.''How awful.' (Novelty)

~ John Crowley

It must take a lot of self-discipline,' she said.'Oh, I don't know. I don't have much.' He felt himself about to say again, and unable to resist saying, that 'Dumas, I think it was Dumas, some terrifically prolific Frenchman, said that writing novels is a simple matter - if you write one page a day, you'll write one novel a year, two pages a day, two novels a year, three pages, three novels, and so on. And how long does it take to cover a page with writing? Twenty minutes? An hour? So you see. Very easy really.''I don't know,' she said, laughing. 'I can't even bring myself to write a letter.''Oh, now that's hard.'(Novelty)

~ John Crowley

It's always been important for writers to be disciplined but now even more so. In addition to the traditional displacement activities like cleaning the fridge or eating cake writers are faced with a plethora of online possibilities (some of which may be professionally worthwhile as well as interesting and fun). As a writer it's important to learn how to focus so you can do both as and when you need to.

~ Sara Sheridan

Procrastination is the kidnapper of souls, and the recruiting-officer of Hell.

~ Edward Irving

You've got to go to Boston, and you've got to go there NOW!!

~ Stephen King

Act. Procrastination costs money.

~ Farshad Asl

We have made our tasks infinitely more difficult because we failed to do yesterday what we are glad to do today. To delay longer will make the war more protracted and increase the sacrifices for victory. Let us stop asking ourselves if it is necessary to do more now. Let us ask ourselves what more we can do today, so we have less to sacrifice tomorrow.

~ John Gilbert Winant

Consistency with the right strategic plan is the ultimate key to success. Yesterday's action would never make up for today's procrastination.

~ Hafiz

To lead from the front you must get off your behind.

~ Orrin Woodward

Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.

~ Paulo Coelho

...it always felt good to have that moment of resolve, like saying, I'm gonna learn French! It doesn't matter if you do it or not, deciding is the high, right?

~ Felicia Day

I want you to learn right at the outset not to play with the spoon before you take the medicine. Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard one makes it impossible. Procrastination is the longest word in the language, but there’s only one letter between its ends when they occupy their proper places in the alphabet.

~ George Horace Lorimer

Get it Right today, for today wil never come again

~ Seyi Ayoola

The rule is easy to understand.Be simple, honest & smart.

~ Prince Akwarandu

Where there is no sense of urgency, there is usually a strong habit of procrastination.

~ Hafiz

I am usually asked, 'How do manage to stay consistent with your goals?' I would always reply, 'I do so because I cannot afford to face the consequences of procrastinating on my goals.

~ Hafiz

Try not to attract stress in your life through procrastination, the future already has its challenging demands.

~ Hafiz

Procrastination is the enemy of every dream.

~ Hafiz