Top procrastination Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of procrastination quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Don Roff
Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode.
- Don Roff
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Image of Steven Pressfield
The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed.
- Steven Pressfield
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Image of Edward Young
Procrastination is the thief of time; year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves the vast concerns of an eternal state. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; at fifty chides his infamous delay, pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; in all the magnanimity of thought, resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same.
- Edward Young
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Image of Kate Morton
Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination. . . .
- Kate Morton
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Image of David Allen
Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.
- David Allen
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Image of Charles Buxton
Indulge in procrastination, and in time yon will come to this, that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can't do it.
- Charles Buxton
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Image of William Peter Blatty
Procrastination is what we often call 'resistance.
- William Peter Blatty
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Image of Surya Das
If we accept and internalize the fact of our own mortality, then, by definition, we have to deal with the essential questions of how we live and spend our allotted time. We have to stop procrastinating, pretending that we have forever to do what we want to do and be what we long to be.
- Surya Das
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Image of Spencer W. Kimball
One of the most serious human defects in all ages is procrastination, an unwillingness to accept personal responsibilities now.
- Spencer W. Kimball
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Image of Alexander Graham Bell
The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.
- Alexander Graham Bell
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Image of Arnold Bennett
Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.
- Arnold Bennett
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Image of Charles Eisenstein
Addiction, self-sabotage, procrastination, laziness, rage, chronic fatigue, and depression are all ways that we withhold our full participation in the program of life we are offered. When the conscious mind cannot find a reason to say no, the unconscious says no in its own way.
- Charles Eisenstein
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Image of James Surowiecki
I do think that procrastination evolved in humans for good reasons. If you're trying to stay alive as a human being on the savanna 20,000 years ago, worrying about what's right behind that bush is a lot more important than worrying about what might happen three weeks from now.
- James Surowiecki
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Image of James A. Michener
Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.
- James A. Michener
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Image of Ovid
If you are not ready today, you will be even less so tomorrow.
- Ovid
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Image of William H. Calvin
Climate change has a very high procrastination penalty that just grows with each passing year of inaction - rather like what happens if you don't pay off your credit card. But for climate, there is no such thing as a fresh start from bankruptcy.
- William H. Calvin
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Image of George Horace Lorimer
Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.
- George Horace Lorimer
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Image of John Lyly
Nothing so perilous as procrastination
- John Lyly
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Image of Hillel the Elder
Do not say, 'When I have leisure, I will study,' because you may never have leisure.
- Hillel the Elder
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Image of Matthew Burton
Procrastination is the seed of self destruction.
- Matthew Burton
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Image of Elle Varner
Tomorrow, the busiest day of the week. I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating.
- Elle Varner
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Image of Robert Southwell
Lingering labors come to naught.
- Robert Southwell
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Image of Edward Irving
Procrastination is the kidnapper of souls and the recruiting-officer of hell.
- Edward Irving
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Image of Lyndon Harrison, Baron Harrison
Killing for pleasure is wrong and should be banned. Fox hunting, stag hunting and hare coursing are moral issues. It is time that we stood up for morality. The commandment Thou shall not kill may be hedged with exceptions.Thou shall not kill for pleasure is not; it is a commandment for the 21st century and it is time that we respected it unambiguously, without prevarication and without procrastination.
- Lyndon Harrison, Baron Harrison
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Image of Wes Fesler
There is no future in waiting for tomorrow.
- Wes Fesler
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Image of Pasquier Quesnel
We pass our life in deliberation, and we die upon it.
- Pasquier Quesnel
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Image of Tavi Gevinson
The best cure for procrastination is to have so much on your plate that procrastination is no longer an option.
- Tavi Gevinson
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Image of Sterling W Sill
One of greatest thieves this world has is procrastination, and he is still at large. Are we aiding and abetting the criminal?
- Sterling W Sill
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Image of James Ussher
There is no dallying with God .
- James Ussher
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Image of Jim Shepard
Does research get in the way of the story? It certainly can. Anything can, given that as writers we're all geniuses at procrastination. But mostly research teaches me about the world. Which often shows me the way, in terms of the story.
- Jim Shepard
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Image of William Alcott
Every thing in human character goes to wreck, under the reign of procrastination, while prompt action gives to all things a corresponding and proportional life and energy.
- William Alcott
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Image of Danielle LaPorte
Don't let perfection become procrastination . Do it now.
- Danielle LaPorte
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Image of Richard Tangye
During a very busy life I have often been asked, "How did you manage to do it all?" The answer is very simple. It is because I did everything promptly.
- Richard Tangye
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Image of Marilyn Sokol
If you have newspapers dating to the last millennium, magazines from the Seventies stacked on your nightstand, and countless envelopes filled with family photos stuffed in a drawer, you may be carrying procrastination to an extreme.
- Marilyn Sokol
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Image of F. R. Scott
Do nothing by halves which can be done by quarters.
- F. R. Scott
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Image of Gladys Bronwyn Stern
One thing that's good about procrastination is that you always have something planned for tomorrow.
- Gladys Bronwyn Stern
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Image of Donovan King
Potential is an excuse to procrastinate; Ambition is a means to thrive.
- Donovan King
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Image of John J. Raskob
Go ahead and do things, the bigger the better, if your fundamentals are sound. Avoid procrastination. Do not quibble for an hour over things that might be decided in minutes. However, if the issue at stake is large, stay as long as the next man, but go ahead and do things.
- John J. Raskob
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Image of Joan Konner
Procrastination always gives you something to look forward to.
- Joan Konner
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Image of Andrew Tridgell
I think a lot of the basis of the open source movement comes from procrastinating students.
- Andrew Tridgell
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Image of Charles Dickens
My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.
- Charles Dickens
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Image of J. A. Spender
'Never put off tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop into today's and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
- J. A. Spender
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Image of K. K. Barrett
I have a funny process : it’s called procrastination.
- K. K. Barrett
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Image of Paul Allen Walker
There is sometimes only a very fine line between deliberation and procrastination.
- Paul Allen Walker
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Image of Jimmy Lyons
Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man.
- Jimmy Lyons
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Image of Shlomo Breznitz
The obvious danger is that in some situations [denial] can lead to procrastination in seeking help or to avoidance of action that might prevent harm.
- Shlomo Breznitz
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Image of Barbara Corcoran
Stop putting it off! Procrastination breeds guilt, guilt breeds depression, and depression breeds failure.
- Barbara Corcoran
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Image of Mark Kingwell
Procrastination most often arises from a sense that there is too much to do, and hence no single aspect of the to-do worth doing. . . . Underneath this rather antic form of action-as-inaction is the much more unsettling question whether anything is worth doing at all.
- Mark Kingwell
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Image of Rory Vaden
Inaction that results from indulgence is Procrastination. Inaction that results from intention is Patience.
- Rory Vaden
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