Procrastination Quotes

Once a job it has begun, do not stop until it's done. Whether it is big or small, do it well or not all. ~ Bear Grylls

The cost of procrastination is generally far greater than the cost of making mistakes. ~ Robert Ringer

The penalty for procrastination is the loss of hopes and dreams. ~ Tai Lopez

Later that year I happened to read a book by Dr. Neil Fiore that validated Bill's suspicion about being too careful. The book was called The Now Habit and was about overcoming procrastination. Dr. Fiore suggested that succeeding in a career is not unlike walking on a tightrope. The more success we achieve, the higher the rope. As we gain something, we have more to lose. Success causes a ravine beneath our careers that grows more deadly, creating a kind of fear of trying. He said the fear of letting people down is one of the primary reasons people procrastinate. ~ Donald Miller

MEDIOCRITY IS A CHOICE... PROCRASTINATION IS A VIRUS THE FIRST ERROR IS INDECISION ~ Marsha Wright

By not doing what I needed to do over and over again for a long time, by playing small, giving in to momentary impulses, instant gratification, and procrastination and being overly comfortable, I was chipping away one tiny insignificant surrender at a time that eventually stacked up into a force that completely jeopardized my relationship with myself. I had no self-worth left ~ Monjyoti Bhattacharyya

Don't let your want for perfection become procrastination ~ Danielle LaPorte

There's nothing wrong with procrastination. Or is there? I'll leave it to you to decide, but only if you have the time. ~ Craig Brown

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

Math test tomorrow.
Check.
Complete lack of preparation for test.
Check. ~ Rick Riordan

Most procrastination is largely indecision. Someone has said that "hell is just truth seen too late." ~ Sterling W. Sill

Resisting a task is usually a sign that it's meaningful-which is why it's awakening your fears and stimulating procrastination. You could adopt "Do whatever you're resisting the most" as a philosophy of life. ~ Oliver Burkeman

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

The best possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today's work superbly today. That is the only possible way you can prepare for the future. ~ Dale Carnegie

In my office ... I have a little sign and it says, 'Do it!' I suppose if I have learned anything in life, it is that we are to keep moving, keep trying-as long as we breathe! If we do, we will be surprised at how much more can still be done. ~ Spencer W. Kimball

Now is the time to get serious about living your ideals. How long can you afford to put off who you really want to be? Your nobler self cannot wait any longer. Put your principles into practice – now. Stop the excuses and the procrastination. This is your life! You aren't a child anymore. The sooner you set yourself to your spiritual program, the happier you will be. The longer you wait, the more you'll be vulnerable to mediocrity and feel filled with shame and regret, because you know you are capable of better. From this instant on, vow to stop disappointing yourself. Separate yourself from the mob. Decide to be extraordinary and do what you need to do – now. ~ Epictetus

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day. ~ Abraham Lincoln

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

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

I read these biographies all the time about these successful people and one of the patterns that I've discovered, and what I've discovered in myself and all of my friends who have become very successful, has been the fact that they say "Yes" to a lot of commitments.

If you just have this one goal, then that one thing may get shoved under the rug and procrastinated on. But if you say yes to a lot of things; if you almost overcommit, then you probably won't get all of the things you've committed to complete. But you'll get a good portion of them. The 80% that you DO get done will still be more than that one person who said no to a lot of things. The busiest people get the most things done. ~ David Tian Ph.D

I have a funny process : it's called procrastination. ~ K. K. Barrett

Step by step, you make your way forward. That's why practices such as daily writing exercises or keeping a daily blog can be so helpful. You see yourself do the work, which shows you that you can do the work. Progress is reassuring and inspiring; panic and then despair set in when you find yourself getting nothing done day after day. One of the painful ironies of work life is that the anxiety of procrastination often makes people even less likely to buckle down in the future. ~ Gretchen Rubin

Procrastination is a way of living in the past instead of the present moment. ~ Debasish Mridha

Be prepared before you begin. You save yourself from delay if you are fully prepared. Preparation sets you for excellence. ~ Israelmore Ayivor

The era of procrastination ... is coming to a close ... we are entering a period of consequences - Winston Churchill (warning about the danger of appeasement ~ Al Gore

A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life. ~ Ze Frank

How often do you find yourself saying, "In a minute", "I'll get to it" or "Tomorrow'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

NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged. ~ Sinclair Lewis

Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer. ~ Horace

Festination may prove Precipitation;
Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation. ~ Thomas Browne

Act. Procrastination costs money. ~ Farshad Asl

T just seemed as if she were marking time while life rocketed past. ~ Soheir Khashoggi

Serpentining means trying to control a situation, backing out of it, pretending it's not happening, or maybe even pretending that you don't care. We use it to dodge conflict, discomfort, possible confrontation, the potential for shame or hurt, and/or criticism (self- or other-inflicted). Serpentining can lead to hiding out, pretending, avoidance, procrastination, rationalizing, blaming, and lying.
I have a tendency to want to serpentine when I feel vulnerable. If I have to make a difficult call, I'll try to script both sides of it. I'll convince myself that I should wait, I'll draft an e-mail while telling myself that it's better in writing, and I'll think of a million other things to do. I'll emotionally run back and forth until I'm exhausted. ~ Brene Brown

So must every man master his own spirit of procrastination before he can expect to share in the rich treasures of Babylon. ~ George S. Clason

Procrastination is a prelude in a minor key. ~ Boris Vian

The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large. ~ Josh Billings

If something is worth doing right, it is worth doing right now. ~ Wes Fesler

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin. ~ Ivan Turgenev

The longer I procrastinate on returning phone calls and emails, the more guilty I feel about it. The guilt I feel causes me to avoid the issue further, which only leads to more guilt and more procrastination. It gets to the point where I don't email someone for fear of reminding them that they emailed me and thus giving them a reason to be disappointed in me. ~ Allie Brosh

Do not say, 'When I have leisure, I will study,' because you may never have leisure. ~ Hillel The Elder

Great matter-days remain on the day stone balance, affecting your life on the day the occur and every day thereafter. So the earlier they happen, the better; waiting means potentially sacrificing years or even decades of benefit. ~ Ron Lizzi

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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

People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. ~ Denis Waitley

Doing things at the last minute reminds us of the importance of doing things at the first minute. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Write it down now! You may never know who will read it tomorrow! ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

If you want to get ahead in life, I've found that perhaps the most useless word in the world is "tomorrow. ~ Jose N Harris

Housework is the most productive procrastination close to a deadline. ~ Grant McLachlan

How to stop procrastinating starts with believing you can overcome procrastination. ~ Robert Moment

I have met people who have ruined their entire lives because of procrastination. They were unaware of why they never took a step, but I could easily see their Procrasdemon standing beside them. ~ Neeraj Agnihotri

Doesn't reincarnation strike you as just another form of procrastination? ~ Chuck Palahniuk

Procrastination is the beginning of poor performance. ~ Ron Kaufman

Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man. ~ Jimmy Lyons

Procrastination is motivation to do the wrong thing. ~ Dean Burnett

Don't just create art to make money. Make money so you can create more art. (Exchange any words you want for 'create art' and see if it fits). ~ Richie Norton

In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

The start is what stops most people. ~ Don Shula

Sooner or later, all men will do and know all things. ~ Richard Powers

Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety. ~ Tryon Edwards

Procrastination has become a it's own solution - a tool I can use to push myself so close to disaster that I become terrified and flee towards success. ~ Allie Brosh

Who says you need to wait until you 'feel like' doing something in order to start doing it? The problem, from this perspective, isn't that you don't feel motivated; it's that you imagine you need to feel motivated. If you can regard your thoughts and emotions about whatever you're procrastinating on as passing weather, you'll realise that your reluctance about working isn't something that needs to be eradicated or transformed into positivity. You can coexist with it. You can note the procrastinatory feelings and act anyway. ~ Oliver Burkeman

The most life destroying word of all is the word tomorrow. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

There is no dallying with God . ~ James Ussher

Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It's a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write. ~ Paul Rudnick

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begun upon this downward path, you never know where you are to stop. Many a man has dated his ruin from some murder or other that perhaps he thought little of at the time. ~ Thomas De Quincey

Inaction that results from indulgence is Procrastination. Inaction that results from intention is Patience. ~ Rory Vaden

Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old. ~ Oscar Wilde

Time is non-renewable. ~ Neeraj Agnihotri

It's time to stop following your dreams and time to start chasing them! ~ Habeeb Akande

Hope is critical to both faith and charity. When disobedience, disappointment, and procrastination erode faith, hope is there to uphold our faith. When frustration and impatience challenge charity, hope braces our resolve and urges us to care for our fellowmen even without expectation of reward. The brighter our hope, the greater our faith. The stronger our hope, the purer our charity. ~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Excuses will not take you far, they will take you out. The success of your many excuses doesn't mean you will run away from the work. It means the work will run away from you! ~ Israelmore Ayivor

The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research. ~ Stephen King

Procrastination is my sin. It brings me naught but sorrow. I know that I should stop it. In fact, I will
tomorrow ~ Gloria Pitzer

One of the most serious human defects in all ages is procrastination, an unwillingness to accept personal responsibilities now. ~ Spencer W. Kimball

Sometimes procrastination of one second can shut the door of success ~ Myra Yadav

Procrastination is like going to a fancy restaurant and filling up on bread and not leaving enough room for dinner. ~ Richie Norton

It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

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

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

Procrastination, fear, and uncertainty are what I like to call the enemies of progress, preventing us from pursuing our dreams and achieving the goals we set for ourselves. ~ Orly Wahba

What is deferred is not avoided. ~ Thomas More

I think I'm going to skip all of my classes today because I need a "me" day. The problem with "me" days is that I need them four times a week. The problem with me is that I'm very smart and very capable (or so I've been told) but my laziness hinders me. Laziness. They forgot to add procrastination, self-destruction, and the inability to leave my bed to the list. The problem with me is that I've dealt with this before but have no idea what to do next. I should email my past teachers and ask them what I did after I sent them messages excusing my week-long absences from class due to "personal reasons." I should stop scratching my hand in case my mom asks me if I'm okay again. I am okay. I am doing fine. But I have an itch that I cannot place, an itch that changes locations when my fingers find it. The problem with me is that I will focus on it completely until it goes away. The problem with this feeling is that it never goes away. It has always been one large itch that I cannot place. ~ Lora Mathis

Rejection is more valuable than inaction. All that I have learned until now has been because of rejections. Inaction didn't teach me a thing. ~ Neeraj Agnihotri

We're our own hardest critics and it's easy to let ourselves down. Sleeping too late. Procrastinating. ~ Marina Keegan

By the streets of 'by and by,' one arrives at the house of 'never'. ~ Miguel De Cervantes

You can dance in the storm. Don't wait for the rain to be over before because it might take too long. You can can do it now. Wherever you are, right now, you can start, right now; this very moment. ~ Israelmore Ayivor

Procrastination stems from fear and indecision. When you really want something, you always find and make time for its accomplishment. Once we remove fear and indecision, we have more time to fulfill desires. The Impostor Phenomenon is a common malady among successful people who secretly fear being "discovered" as frauds who haven't earned their stature. Not only do fears interfere with goal attainment, but they can also be self-fulfilling. Fear and worry cause more falls than they prevent. It's important to identify fears and success blocks as a first step in removing them. Identify, but don't overanalyze, your fears. Remember: think about what you want, rather than what you don't want. Observe and notice fears, without judging them. Fears are normal. However, removing fear is both a healthy and attainable goal. When we remove fear, all things become possible. ~ Doreen Virtue

True laziness is the commitment to decrease work and increase efficiency; reduce burden and boost creativity; expand your knowledge and avoid complications; minimize effort and still get it done. ~ Alan Rios

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. ~ Marthe Troly-Curtin

By what right do I, who have wasted this day, make claims on tomorrow? ~ Alain-Fournier

But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last. ~ George Eliot

First of all, don't be late. Ever. For anything. ~ J. Earp

I can procrastinate thinking about my procrastination problem. I can procrastinate dealing with my problem of procrastinating thinking about my procrastination problem. ~ Anonymous

Somedays you're the cue ball, somedays you are the eight ball ~ Pablo

Not now" easily grows to become "never"; You either do it now or lose it forever! ~ Israelmore Ayivor

Procrastination is an eclipse to your true potential. ~ Neeraj Agnihotri

Too much freedom can lead to the development of indiscipline. ~ Neeraj Agnihotri

Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely. ~ Anthony Burgess

Lover of poetry, prose and procrastination. ~ Stephen Fitzsimons

Striving for perfection can get in the way during the early stages of the creative process. ~ David Kelley