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
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. C. Northcote Parkinson
The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started. Unknown
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
Yesterday is a cancelled check. Tomorrow is a promissory note. Today is the only cash you have, so spend it wisely. Kim Lyons.
Getting an idea should be like sitting on a pin; it should make you jump up and do something. E. L. Simpson
Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision. Harry A. Hopf
This one makes a net, this one stands and wishes. Would you like to make a bet which one gets the fishes. Chinese Rhyme
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
It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the master work. Now, I’m beginning what I could have started ten years ago. But I’m happy at least that I didn’t wait twenty years. Paulo Coelho
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
If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it. Olin Miller
The best way to get something done is to begin. Unknown
Stop talking. Start walking. L.M. Heroux
Procrastination is opportunity’s assassin. Victor Kiam
You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Begin doing what you want to do now. Marie Beynon Ray
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. Pablo Picasso
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
Following-through is the only thing that separates dreamers from people that accomplish great things”. Gene Hayden
Inspirational Procrastination Quotes
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
If you put off everything till you’re sure of it, you’ll never get anything done. Norman Vincent Peale
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they’re out of date. Anonymous
A year from now you may wish you had started today. Karen Lamb
When there is a hill to climb, don’t think that waiting will make it smaller. Unknown
Begin while others are procrastinating. Work while others are wishing. William Arthur Ward
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. Syndey Smith
To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing. Eva Young
Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing! Donald Gardner
Time wasted is existence; used is life. Edward Young
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. Abraham Lincoln
We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate. Erica Jong
Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement. Henry Miller
How soon not now, becomes never. Martin Luther
He who hesitates is a damned fool. Mae West
You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Unknown
The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action. Alexandre Graham Bell
Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with. It is the only decent way to live. M. Scott Peck
You may delay, but time will not. Benjamin Franklin
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
Delay not to seize the hour! Aeschylus
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. William James
Amazing Procrastination Quotes
There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks. David Lloyd George
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
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
Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows. Michael Landon
Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. Napoleon Hill
By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there’s no more future left for them. Robert L’Estrange
Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried. Unknown
Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started. David Allen
I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work. Pearl S. Buck
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
Don’t procrastinate. Putting off an unpleasant task until tomorrow simply gives you more time for your imagination to make a mountain out a possible molehill. More time for anxiety to sap your self-confidence. Do it now, brother, do it now. Unknown
Procrastination is a way for us to be satisfied with second-rate results; we can always tell ourselves we’d have done a better job if only we’d had more time. If you’re good at rationalizing, you can keep yourself feeling rather satisfied this way, but it’s a cheap happy. You’re whittling your expectations of yourself down lower and lower. Richard O’Conner
If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it. Olin Miller
One of these days, is none of these days. Proverb
Procrastination is the thief of time. Edward Young
Begin to weave and God will give you the thread. German Proverb
I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument, while the song I came to sing remains unsung. Rabindranath Tagore
The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to the active prosecution of whatever he is desirous to perform. It is true, that no diligence can ascertain success; death may intercept the swiftest career; but he who is cut off in the execution of an honest undertaking has at least the honour of falling in his rank, and has fought the battle, though he missed the victory. Samuel Johnson
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
The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They’re full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too. Norman Vincent Peale
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
If and When were planted, and Nothing grew. Proverb
Procrastination is like a credit card: it’s a lot of fun until you get the bill. Christopher Parker
