Procrastination Quotes

Procrastination threatens critics’ livelihood.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Tempted to type meaningless twaddle all the time on Twitter...with alliteration, no less!

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship. So when my friends Joel and Stephen and I play hooky from our jobs in the middle of the afternoon to play Pop-A-Shot in a room full of children, I like to think we are not procrastinators; we are patriots pursuing happiness.

~ Sarah Vowell

The funny thing about my procrastination was that I was almost done with the screenplay. I was like a person who had fought dragons and lost limbs and crawled through swamps and now, finally, the castle was visible. I could see tiny children waving flags on the balcony; all I had to do was walk across a field to get to them. But all of a sudden I was very, very sleepy. And the children couldn't believe their eyes as I folded down to my knees and fell to the ground face-first, with my eyes open. Motionless, I watched ants hurry in and out of a hole and I knew that standing up again would be a thousand times harder than the dragon or the swamp and so I did not even try. I just clicked on one thing after another after another.

~ Miranda July

Do first what you don’t want to do most.

~ Clifford Cohen

Somedays you're the cue ball, somedays you are the eight ball

~ Pablo

A credit card allows you transcend time. For it allows you to put off until tomorrow what you bought today, while you are still paying what you bought yesterday.

~ Robert Morrissette

A credit card allows you transcend time. For it allows you to put off until tomorrow what you bought today, while you are still paying off what you bought yesterday.

~ Robert Morrissette

To procrastinate obedience is to disobey God.

~ Randy Alcorn

Nowadays, our lifestyle is to follow the herd than to use the head.

~ Prabakaran Thirumalai

Do what you know needs to be done.

~ Lynda A. Calder

Procrastination is the foundation of all disasters.

~ Pandora Poikilos

He who every morning plans the transactions of that day and follows that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

~ Victor Hugo

Every minute we waste in frustration over a task that seems overwhelming is a minute subtracted from the time we've allotted to enjoy life.

~ Marc Mancini

Procrastination can be overcome with effective time management skills and strategies.

~ Robert Moment

You are asking for an extra hour after you have wasted a day.

~ Gnalluap

One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.

~ Brian Tracy

The more time you have to do things, the less you are able to get done.

~ Joyce Rachelle

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

~ Wayne Gretzky

Procrastination is the thief of time.

~ Edward Young

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

~ Don Marquis

If you want to be certain, you should never get married. You should never change jobs. In fact, you might as well just stay home. Because I don't know anybody who is certain. That need to be certain is just procrastination.

~ Mark Burnett