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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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. – William James
Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. – Napoleon Bonaparte
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. – Abraham Lincoln
When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that in itself is a choice. – William James
We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate. – Erica Jong
Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well. – Mark Twain
You may delay, but time will not. – Benjamin Franklin
To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing. – Eva Young
If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it. – Olin Miller
It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth – and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up – that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had. – Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Busy not yourself in looking forward to the events of to-morrow; but whatever may be those of the days Providence may yet assign you neglect not to turn them to advantage. – Horace
Procrastination is like a credit card; it’s a lot fun until you get the bill. – Christopher Parker
It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. – Leonardo da Vinci
Someday is not a day of the week. – Janet Dailey
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
Getting an idea should be like sitting on a pin; it should make you jump up and do something. – E.L. Simpson
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. – Sydney Harris
Stop procrastinating, stop feeling guilty and just do it! – Bastiaan Blikman
Procrastinating does nothing more than add to your do list. Do it, be done with it! – Catherine Pulsifer
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can’t buy more hours. Scientists can’t invent new minutes. And you can’t save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you’ve wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. – Denis Waitley
How soon ‘not now’ becomes ‘never.’ – Martin Luther
Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work. – Stephen King
A year from now you may wish you had started today. – Karen Lamb
Procrastination can guard against making the wrong choice too soon. Or it could just be mental laziness. – Pepper Hume
Procrastination is my sin. It brings me naught but sorrow. I know that I should stop it. In fact, I will–tomorrow – Gloria Pitzer
Procrastination is something best put off until tomorrow. – Gerald Vaughan
Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in instalments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day’s success. – Israelmore Ayivor
The man who waits to know everything is the man who never does anything. – Craig D. Lounsbrough
Procrastination is like going to a fancy restaurant and filling up on bread and not leaving enough room for dinner. – Richie Norton
Procrastination is the lazy cousin of fear. When we feel anxiety around an activity, we postpone it. – Noelle Hancock
My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. – Charles Dickens
Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand-and melting like a snowflake. – Francis Bacon
Procrastination is opportunity’s assassin. – Victor Kiam
If you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves. – David Allen
You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. – Dale Carnegie
Think of many things; do one. – Portuguese proverb
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. – Baltasar Graci
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. – William James
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. – Anne Frank
Don’t put off until tomorrow what can be done today. Procrastination is a sign of weak character. – Carol Cox
Doing things at the last minute reminds us of the importance of doing things at the first minute. – Matshona Dhliwayo
A day can really slip by when you’re deliberately avoiding what you’re supposed to do. – Bill Watterson
By what right do I, who have wasted this day, make claims on tomorrow? – Alain-Fournier
If you want to get ahead in life, I’ve found that perhaps the most useless word in the world istomorrow. – José N. Harris
The best way to get something done is to begin. – Author Unknown
Following-through is the only thing that separates dreamers from people that accomplish great things. – Gene Hayden
The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action. – Alexander Graham Bell
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 scene. – Edward Young
Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment. – Nassim N. Taleb
He who hesitates is last. – Mae West
Procrastination is a sign of a perfectionist. – P. J. Kennedy
It’s easy to get distracted and procrastinate sometimes, but you can make it happen. – Danny Yann
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. – Jim Rohn
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. – Pablo Picasso
The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings. – Thomas Sowell
Follow effective actions with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. – Peter Drucker
If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don’t just stick there scowling at the problem. But don’t make telephone calls or go to a party; if you do, other people’s words will pour in where your lost words should be. Open a gap for them, create a space. Be patient. – Hilary Mantel
Thinking too much leads to paralysis by analysis. It’s important to think things through, but many use thinking as a means of avoiding action. – Robert Herjavec
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone – Pablo Picasso
It is only by working the rituals, that any significant degree of understanding can develop. If you wait until you are positive you understand all aspects of the ceremony before beginning to work, you will never begin to work. – Lon Milo DuQuette
Do first what you don’t want to do most. – Clifford Cohen
Don’t let procrastination take over your life. Be brave and take risks. Your life is happening right now. – Roy Bennett
The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large. – Henry Wheelter Shaw
My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry ’til a more convenient season. – Mary Todd Lincoln
Don’t postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson. – Alan Cohen
Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all. – Peter Drucker
Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows. – Michael Landon
Procrastination is the thief of time. – Edward Young
Procrastination is also a subtle act of corruption †it corrupts valuable time – Amit Abraham
Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit. – John Updike
Procrastination may not take up a lot of effort physically but without you knowing it, it takes over the mind. – Stephen Hall
You may not be punished for your procrastination, but for sure you will be punished by your procrastination. – Debasish Mridha
The problem with procrastination is it’s been around since the beginning of time it seems. – Stephen Richards
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
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. – Abraham Lincoln
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus. – Alexander Graham Bell
If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem… break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time. – Robert Collier
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. – Anne Frank
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the ‘someday I’ll’ philosophy. – Denis Waitley
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
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.- Alexander Graham Bell
Following-through is the only thing that separates dreamers from people that accomplish great things. ~ Gene Hayden
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
If you put off everything till you’re sure of it, you’ll never get anything done. – Norman Vincent Peale
Begin to weave and God will give you the thread. – German Proverb
Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard one makes it impossible. – George H. Lorimer
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon – instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today. – Dale Carnegie
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
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday. – Napoleon Hill
Procrastination is the foundation of all disasters. – Pandora Poikilos
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
The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started. – Dawson Trotman
Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement. – Henry Miller
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday – Don Marquis
Happy soul and a hardcore procrastinator seeking truth. – Pallav Gautam
Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him. – Charles Dickens
Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them. – David Allen
Great acts are made up of small deeds. – Lao Tzu
It is not really work if you are having fun. – Pierre Omidyar
Nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost legendary. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Perseverance and determination alone are omnipotent. – Calvin Coolidge
Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. – Napoleon Hill
Perhaps the most valuable result of an education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. – Thomas Huxley
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
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
Begin while others are procrastinating. Work while others are wishing. – William Arthur Ward
Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision. – Harry A. Hopf
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
Getting an idea should be like sitting on a pin; it should make you jump up and do something. ~ E. L. Simpson
There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks. – David Lloyd George
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
Often just by taking action, by doing something about the situation can relieve the stress and help correct the situation. – Catherine Pulsifer
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
Procrastination is opportunity’s natural assassin. – Victor Kiameval
He who is begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin. – Horace
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
Procrastination is opportunity’s natural assassin. – Victor Kiam
If you have goals and procrastination you have nothing. If you have goals and you take action, you will have anything you want. – Thomas J. Vilord
If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time. – Robert Collier
You may delay, but time will not. – Benjamin Franklin
I can’t think about that right now. If I do, I’ll go crazy. I’ll think about that tomorrow. – Margaret Mitchell
Procrastinate now, don’t put it off. – Ellen DeGeneres
Procrastination is opportunity’s natural assassin. – Victor Kiam
Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well. – Mark Twain
The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action. – Alexandre Graham Bell
Stop talking. Start walking. – L.M. Heroux
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
When there is a hill to climb, don’t think that waiting will make it smaller. ~Author Unknown
Delay not to seize the hour! – Aeschylus
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
This one makes a net, this one stands and wishes. Would you like to make a bet which one gets the fishes. – Chinese Rhyme
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
All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty. – Proverbs
Begin doing what you want to do now. – Marie Beynon Ray
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
If and When were planted, and Nothing grew. – Proverb
Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether. – Epictetus
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
We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it? – Buddha
Time drinketh up the essence of every great and noble action, which ought to be performed, and is delayed in the execution. – Vishnu Sarma
Those who work their land will have abundant food, but those who chase fantasies have no sense. – Proverbs
One who is slack in his work is brother to one who destroys. – Proverbs
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. – Seneca
Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today. – Thomas Jefferson
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday. – Napoleon Hill
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
A year from now you may wish you had started today. – Karen Lambeval
Faith in tomorrow, instead of Christ, is Satan’s nurse for man’s perdition. – George B. Cheever
If you believe you can accomplish everything bycramming 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
A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large. – Alyce P. Cornyn-Selby
How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time. – Fred Brooks
Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried. – Author Unknown
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
How soon not now, becomes never. ~ Martin Luther
One of these days, is none of these days. – Proverb
You can’t just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. What mood is that? Last-minute panic. – Bill Watterson
As adults most of us at least recognize that we are procrastinating. Even if we are unsure of what to do to get on track and working efficiently.
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
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. – Peter McWlliams and John-Roger
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they’re out of date. – Anonymous
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. – Peter McWilliams and John Roger
Time wasted is existence; used is life. – Edward Young
We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate. – Erica Jong
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. – Sydney Harris
How often do you find yourself saying,In a minute,I’ll get to it orTomorrow’s good enough and every other possible excuse in the book? Compare it with how often you decide it’s got to be done, so let’s get on and do it! That should tell you just how serious your procrastinating problem really is. – Stephen Richards
How to stop procrastinating starts with believing you can overcome procrastination. – Robert Moment
Never put things off…you will wake up and find them gone. – James Jones
Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you. – Paulo Coelho, Aleph
If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you’ll find you’ve done it. – George Bernard Shaw
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
You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind. – Author Unknown
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
Don’t wait for someone to take you under their wing. Find a good wing and climb up underneath it. – Frank C. Bucaro
Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing! ~Donald Gardner
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
By what right do I, who have wasted this day, make claims on tomorrow? – Alain Fournier
There is no avoidance in delay. – Aeschylus
Delay is the deadliest form of denial. – C. Northcote Parkinson
If you are always saying I’ll do it to tomorrow, than your tomorrow will than turn into another day and so on, and so, etc. etc. – Victoria Addino
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone – Pablo Picasso
If you put off everything till you’re sure of it, you’ll never get anything done. – Norman Vincent Peale
Never postpone until tomorrow what you can postpone until the day after. – Raoul Wallenberg
Procrastinators are the painters of tomorrow. – Rick Rotante
Procrastination is a ring on every man’s finger. – Trebonianus Gallus
Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy. – Wayne Dyer
In delay there lies no plenty. – William Shakespeare
You can’t get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good. – Jerry West
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. – Seneca
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on thesomeday I’ll philosophy. ~ Denis Waitley
Procrastination is like a credit card: it’s a lot of fun until you get the bill. – Christopher Parker
Begin while others are procrastinating. Work while others are wishing. ~William Arthur Ward
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. – Author 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
Yesterday is a cancelled check. Tomorrow is a promissory note. Today is the only cash you have, so spend it wisely. ~Kim Lyons.
What is deferred is not avoided. – Thomas More
Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work – Chuck Close
If you always do what is easy and choose the path of least resistance, you never step outside your comfort zone. Great things don’t come from comfort zones. – Roy Bennett
Your ideas have legs and just as they run through your head, they could be running through someone else’s head and it’s just a matter of who gets to the finish line first. Nothing is new under the sun so act on your ideas.? Sanjo Jendayi
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
By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there’s no more future left for them. – Robert L’Estrange
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
I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument, while the song I came to sing remains unsung. – Rabindranath Tagore
Procrastination is, hands down, our favorite form of self-sabotage. – Alyce P. Cornyn-Selbyeval
You may not be punished for your procrastination, but for sure you will be punished by your procrastination. – Debasish Mridha
We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate. – Erica Jong
He who hesitates is a damned fool. – Mae West
Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement. – Henry Miller
One of the greatest labor-saving inventions of today is tomorrow. – Vincent T. Foss
If it weren’t for the last minute, nothing would get done. – Rita Mae Brown
The two rules of procrastination: 1) Do it today. 2) Tomorrow will be today tomorrow. – Author Unknown
What may be done at any time will be done at no time. – Scottish Proverb
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. – Spanish Proverb
I remember reading somewhere about an organization called Procrastinators Anonymous. I think they had been in existence for some years but had never gotten around to having a meeting. – Unknown
One of these days, is none of these days. – Unknown
How soon not now, becomes never. – Martin Luther
Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. – Jim Rohn
Begin while others are procrastinating. Work while others are wishing. – William Arthur Wardeval
Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment – Robert Benchley
