Procrastination Quotes

The problem with a lot of people is that they procrastinate as if tomorrow doesn't have some tasks of its own.

~ Hafiz

Never wait till tomorrow to attend to the urgent demands of today.

~ Hafiz

There is always a priceless feeling that comes with going to sleep at night knowing that you did your very best on the tasks that you set for the day. Fears, doubts, and procrastinations are the enemies of your true destiny.

~ Hafiz

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

You are only earning the life you get when your inaction allows people to decide for you.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Now there was no sign of any foul weather, but when one wishes to do a thing . . . one finds no lack of reasons for the doing.

~ Howard Pyle

Improvement is always on the schedule for tomorrow. Change is always taking place some time in the future. It’s human nature.

~ Dan Pearce

There is a very real danger present when we suppress our feelings to act on inspiration in exchange for the “safety” of the status quo. We risk sacrificing the opportunity to live a more fulfilling and purpose driven life. We risk sacrificing the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others. We risk sacrificing the beautiful blessing of finding a greater sense of meaning in our own lives.In short, we run the very real risk living a life of regret.

~ Richie Norton

There are those who fear the sunset, worried they will never see light again. There are those who ignore the sunrise, squandering dawn, believing they will never run out of daylight. And then there are those who have learned to live in the sun's warmth, gauging time by its positions, thankful at night that the day happened. Be aware of time. Use it wisely. Be thankful for the light allotted.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

With age, gone are the forevers of youth. Gone is the willingness to procrastinate, delay, to play the waiting game. Now each day is a treasure beyond compare . . . because there are so few such diadems left.

~ Joe L. Wheeler

It is important to note that a transitional phase has to be uncomfortable for you to move on to the next stage, lest procrastination stymies you.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Instead of waiting for the right moment, BE the right moment. You won't be ready for anything if you aren't ready to be you.

~ Kaiden Blake

During the act of making something, I experience a kind of blissful absence of the self and a loss of time. When I am done, I return to both feeling as restored as if I had been on a trip. I almost never get this feeling any other way. I once spent sixteen hours making 150 wedding invitations by hand and was not for one instance of that time tempted to eat or look at my watch. By contrast, if seated at the computer, I check my email conservatively 30,000 times a day. When I am writing, I must have a snack, call a friend, or abuse myself every ten minutes. I used to think that this was nothing more than the difference between those things we do for love and those we do for money. But that can't be the whole story. I didn't always write for a living, and even back when it was my most fondly held dream to one day be able to do so, writing was always difficult. Writing is like pulling teeth. From my dick.

~ David Rakoff

One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we’re idling in front of our computer screens.

~ Joshua Foer

There will be many times in your lives--- at school, and more particularly when you are a grown up---when people will distract or divert you from what needs to be done. You may even welcome the distraction. But if you use it as an excuse for not doing what you suppose to do, you can blame no one but yourself. If you truly wish to accomplish something, you should allow nothing to stop you, and chances are you'll succeed.

~ Julie Andrews Edwards

NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.

~ Sinclair Lewis

How easy it is to slip.How hard it is to climb.How wise it is to keep in stepAnd never fall behind.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

When it comes to death, procrastination is encouraged.

~ D.e. Navarro

We must remember balance and moderation. Patience can be spiritually enriching and virtuous… but when taken in excess, it turns to procrastination, the poison of inaction.

~ Steve Maraboli

Procrastination is the lazy cousin of fear.When we feel anxiety around an activity, we postpone it.

~ Noelle Hancock

The duty of planning the morrow's work is today's duty...

~ C.s. Lewis

Your ideas have legs and just as they run through your head, they could be running through someone else's head and it's just a matter of who gets to the finish line first. Nothing is new under the sun so act on your ideas.

~ Sanjo Jendayi

As soon as (Teddy Roosevelt) received an assignment for a paper or project, he would set to work, never leaving anything to the last minute. Prepared so far ahead freed his mind from worry and facilitated fresh, lucid thought.

~ Doris Kearns Goodwin

The problem with spiritual procrastination is the uncertain time of the deadline.

~ Kevin Thoman

By seeing what triggers procrastination, and then making a plan to flip those triggers, doing your taxes becomes attractive. If I found myself putting off doing my taxes, I might sit down and make a plan to changes those triggers. For example, if the trigg

~ Chris Bailey

As a reformed procrastinator, I'm now getting things done in the first 10 seconds of the last minute.

~ Stewart Lee Beck

Never allow doubt to roam unimpeded within you. When it arises acknowledge it immediately, and then exterminate it with extreme prejudice.

~ Noel Dejesus

Even hell will give you an incentive not to reach for heaven.

~ Garry Crystal

One very important key to maintaining our daily sanity is a simple scheduling tactic I call Putting Things the Hell Off.

~ Ian Frazier

Procrastination and excuses really have the energy to make your picture small and blurred if you offer them that image!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Charity knew she had to begin looking for a job soon. Definitely tomorrow, or the next day. Or perhaps the day after that. Charity didn't believe in procrastination. She just needed to plan her strategy. She was sound asleep on the sofa when Lady Margaret got back from London.

~ Elizabeth Jane Howard

Don't stay in this now. You'll fall behind.

~ Brian Spellman

The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.

~ Stephen King

Striving for perfection can get in the way during the early stages of the creative process.

~ David Kelley

Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.

~ Aaron Burr

Stop sleeping, Get to work! You will have much time to sleep when you die.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Both positive and negative thinking are contagious.

~ Stephen Richards

The problem with procrastination is it’s been around since the beginning of time it seems.

~ Stephen Richards

How often do you find yourself saying, “In a minute”, “I’ll get to it” or “Tomorrow’s good enough” and every other possible excuse in the book? Compare it with how often you decide it’s got to be done, so let’s get on and do it! That should tell you just how serious your procrastinating problem really is.

~ Stephen Richards

Habitual procrastinators will readily testify to all the lost opportunities, missed deadlines, failed relationships and even monetary losses incurred just because of one nasty habit of putting things off until it is often too late.

~ Stephen Richards