PROCRASTINATION QUOTES III

quotations about procrastination

Procrastination quote

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

The Secret of Getting Started


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

DONALD GARDNER

attributed, The Psychology of Procrastination


We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.

ERICA JONG

Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life

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Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

GEORGE HORACE LORIMER

Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son

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Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.

JAMES ALTUCHER

attributed, "#MondayMotivation", PayScale, May 16, 2016


Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

MARTHE TROLY-CURTIN

Phrynette Married


Procrastination is the foundation of all disasters.

PANDORA POIKILOS

Excuse Me, My Brains Have Stepped Out


Procrastination is opportunity's natural assassin.

VICTOR KIAM

Going for It!


Procrastination has been called a thief, the thief of time; I wish it were no worse than a thief. It is a murderer; and that which it kills is not time merely, but the immortal soul.

WILLIAM NEVINS

Earnest Appeals


I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

DOUGLAS ADAMS

The Salmon of Doubt

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Beware of the thief of time, procrastination; this day is as convenient as tomorrow; this day is yours, tomorrow is not; this day is a day of mercy, tomorrow may be a day of doom.

EDWARD IRVING

For the Oracles of God: Four Orations


The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

W. M. LEWIS

attributed, Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing


Procrastination is a ring on every man's finger.

CAIUS VIBIUS TREBONIANUS GALLUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

attributed, Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing

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When faced with two equally tough choices, most people choose the third choice: to not choose.

JAROD KINTZ

This Book Title is Invisible


Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off til tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all.

MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN

attributed, The Psychology of Procrastination

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My advice: Procrastinate now. Don't put it off.

ELLEN DEGENERES

attributed, The Stand-up Comedy Festival: Send in the Clowns

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Some persons appear to have been born half an hour too late, and chase that half hour through life, and are finally distanced in the race; for by procrastinating, they are always behind hand in everything.

L. C. JUDSON

attributed, Day's Collacon


What is deferred is not avoided.

THOMAS MORE

Utopia

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Almost all indolence and fickleness spring from procrastination; while thinking about what we shall do, and doubting whether we can do it or not, we allow the opportunity of action to slip through our hands. What thou doest, do quickly, is the maxim of human as well as of divine wisdom.

GEORGE GILFILLAN

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, 1854