Procrastination is the avoidance of doing a task that needs to be accomplished by a certain deadline. Inspirational procrastination quotes will encourage you to think a little deeper than you usually would and broaden your perspective.
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Powerful Collection of Most Famous Procrastination Quotes
To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing. Eva Young
Never put off for tomorrow what you can do today. Thomas Jefferson
Procrastination is opportunity’s assassin. Victor Kiam
Time wasted is existence; used is life. Edward Young
If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it. Olin Miller
Getting an idea should be like sitting on a pin; it should make you jump up and do something. E. L. Simpson
The best way to get something done is to begin.
The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action. Alexander Graham Bell
A year from now you may wish you had started today. Karen Lamb
Begin while others are procrastinating. Work while others are wishing. William Arthur Ward
Procrastination is the thief of time. Edward Young
Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard one makes it impossible. George H. Lorimer
Procrastination usually results in sorrowful regret. Today’s duties put off until tomorrow give us a double burden to bear; the best way is to do them in their proper time. Ida Scott Taylor
Procrastination is opportunity’s natural assassin. Victor Kiam
Following through is the only thing that separates dreamers from people that accomplish great things Gene Hayden
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday. Napoleon Hill
Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. M. Scott Peck
Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision. Harry A. Hopf
If you put off everything till you’re sure of it, you’ll never get anything done. Norman Vincent Peale
In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. Theodore Roosevelt
If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it. Olin Miller
The greatest amount of wasted time is time not getting started. Dawson Trotman
Begin to weave and God will give you the thread. German Proverb
Procrastination may not take up a lot of effort physically but without you knowing it, it takes over the mind. Stephen Hall
Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision. Harry A. Hopf
Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don’t count. Gene Hayden
The habit of always putting off an experience until you can afford it, or until the time is right, or until you know how to do it is one of the greatest burglars of joy. Be deliberate, but once you’ve made up your mind jump in. Charles R. Swindoll
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. Abraham Lincoln
Getting an idea should be like sitting on a pin; it should make you jump up and do something. E. L. Simpson
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks. David Lloyd George
Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well. Mark Twain
Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. Napoleon Hill
The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings. Thomas Sowell
Doing just a little bit during the time we have available puts you that much further ahead than if you took no action at all. Byron Pulsifer
Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them. David Allen
Stop talking. Start walking. L.M. Heroux
A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large. Alyce P. Cornyn Selby
We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We shall never have more time. We have, and have always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going day in and day out. Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs. Arnold Bennett
When there is a hill to climb, don’t think that waiting will make it smaller.
If you believe you can accomplish everything by cramming at the eleventh hour, by all means, don’t lift a finger now. But you may think twice about beginning to build your ark once it has already started raining. Max Brooks
To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can. Sydney Smith
We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate. Erica Jong
Delay not to seize the hour! Aeschylus
How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time. Fred Brooks
So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don’t sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we’ve satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late. Lee Iacocca
Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don’t count. Robert Anthony
This one makes a net, this one stands and wishes. Would you like to make a bet on which one gets the fishes. Chinese Rhyme
A day can really slip by when you’re deliberately avoiding what you’re supposed to do. Bill Watterson
Begin doing what you want to do now. Marie Beynon Ray
Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all. Peter Drucker
A primary reason people don’t do new things is because they want to do them perfectly first time. It’s completely irrational, impractical, not workable and yet, it’s how most people run their lives. It’s called The Perfection Syndrome. John Roger and Peter McWlliams
You can’t get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good. Jerry West
If and When were planted, and Nothing grew. Proverb
