Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jorge Luis Borges

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.

Napoleon Hill

You must master the habit of procrastination and eliminate it from your wake-up. This habit of putting off until tomorrow that which you should have done last week or last year or a score of years ago is gnawing at the very vitals of your being and you can accomplish nothing until you throw it off.

John Flanagan

If and perhaps.... The language of procrastination and uncertainty. That's just people looking to justify their own lack of action.

James Madison

Procrastination in the beginning and precipitation towards the conclusion is the characteristic of such bodies.

Joan Konner

Procrastination always gives you something to look forward to.

Eric Thomas

Once I finished, I got that procrastination monkey off my back! And I started seeing doors opening.

John Ortberg

Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Do not delay, Do not delay: the golden moments fly!

Henrik Ibsen

If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.

Hesiod

Do not put your work off till to-morrow and the day after; for a sluggish worker does not fill his barn, nor one who puts off his work: industry makes work go well, but a man who puts off work is always at hand-grips with ruin.

Hilary Mantel

Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.

Hilary Mantel

I used to think that when I set out that doing the research was enough! But then the gaps would emerge that could only be filled by the imagination. And imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.

John Lyly

Nothing so perilous as procrastination

Jim Rohn

Nothing is more burdensome than an unfinished task.

Joanne Harris

I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia.

James Surowiecki

Addictive behavior is kind of the inverse of procrastination: procrastination is about not being able to do what you want to do, addiction about not being able to not do what you don't want to do (drink, use drugs, etc.)

James Surowiecki

One of the problems that exacerbates procrastination is the feeling that you have lots of different things to do and no clear sense of which matter more, when they should be done, etc.

James Surowiecki

I do think that procrastination evolved in humans for good reasons. If you're trying to stay alive as a human being on the savanna 20,000 years ago, worrying about what's right behind that bush is a lot more important than worrying about what might happen three weeks from now.

James Surowiecki

I think there is clearly a connection between free time and procrastination. The more you have of the former, all things being equal, the more likely you are to procrastinate.

Peter Drucker

Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

John C. Maxwell

Pay now, play later; play now, pay later.

Louise Hay

Procrastination is another form of resistance

Orison Swett Marden

A lobster, when left high and dry among the rock, does not have the sense enough to work his way back to the sea, but waits for the sea to come to him. If it does not come, he remains where he is and dies, although the slightest effort would enable him to reach the waves, which are perhaps within a yard of him. The world is full of human lobsters; people stranded on the rocks of indecision and procrastination, who, instead of putting forth their own energies, are waiting for some grand billow of good fortune to set them afloat.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false.

Joseph Hall

Our good purposes foreslowed are become our tormentors upon our deathbed.

Ron Kaufman

Procrastination is the beginning of poor performance.

Russell M. Nelson

Unfinished business is our worst business. Perpetual procrastination must yield to perceptive preparation. Today we have a little more time to bless others-time to be kinder, more compassionate, quicker to thank and slower to scold, more generous in sharing, more gracious in caring.

Susan Orlean

I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approach to not getting things done.

Marcus Aurelius

Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live.

Marcus Aurelius

Think of all the years passed by in which you said to yourself "I'll do it tomorrow," and how the gods have again and again granted you periods of grace of which you have not availed yourself. It is time to realize that you are a member of the Universe, that you are born of Nature itself, and to know that a limit has been set to your time. Use every moment wisely, to perceive your inner refulgence, or 'twill be gone and nevermore within your reach.

Tavi Gevinson

The best cure for procrastination is to have so much on your plate that procrastination is no longer an option.

Tony Robbins

The best way to deal with procrastination is to postpone it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Postpone not your life.