57+ Best Procrastination Quotes: Exclusive Selection

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