Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Luther King, Jr.

How soon 'not now' becomes 'never'!

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words ‘Too Late’.

Maria Edgeworth

half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Those who are late will be punished by life itself.

Publilius Syrus

Deliberando saepe perit occasio [The opportunity often slips away while we deliberate on it].

Publilius Syrus

Deliberando saepe perit occasio

Publilius Syrus

All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful

Oscar Wilde

I never put off till tomorrow what I can do the day after.

Pasquier Quesnel

We pass our life in deliberation, and we die upon it.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.

Tom Conti

Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork.

Noah Baumbach

When you find yourself on the Internet when you're supposed to be writing, you've already lost. It's even beyond procrastination when you end up on the Internet.

Noah Baumbach

I try to procrastinate, if I can, productively, like I'll work on something else as procrastination. Or I take a walk. Because often I find, if you get out, more things come to you.

Mike White

I used to go online all the time, and then I had to stop myself... because I'm a writer, and it's like: to have a procrastination tool, like, within my computer... it was just getting too hairy.

Miguel de Cervantes

By the streets of 'by and by,' one arrives at the house of 'never'.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.

Mary Todd Lincoln

My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.

Peter Drucker

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

Mason Cooley

Procrastination and impatience form a system of checks and balances.

Mason Cooley

Later is always my first choice.

Michael Chabon

Procrastination is something you do yourself. You know: "I gotta sharpen these pencils before I start. I got 20 pencils, they're looking kinda dull." Well, the pencils aren't calling you and alluring you and inviting you and offering you anything. They're just sitting there. You're the one who's procrastinating.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Peace is more than a lofty ideal. It is a practical principle that, with conscious effort, can become a normal part of our lives as we deal with matters both large and small. One habit that prevents inner peace is procrastination. It clutters our minds with unfinished business and makes us uneasy until we finish a task and get it out of the way.

Lauryn Hill

I have a problem with procrastination. I have a great deal of difficulty deciding what to wear. It's a woman thing.

John Updike

Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit.

Louise Hay

Procrastination is another form of resistance

John C. Maxwell

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

All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.

James Altucher

Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.

Stephen King

The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.

Elle Varner

Tomorrow, the busiest day of the week. I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating.

Robert Henri

If you do not act on a suggestion at first, you grow dull to its message.

Woody Allen

If the world is a progressively realized community of interpretation, then either quadruplictity will drink procrastination or, provided that the nothing negates, boredom will ensue seldom more often than frequently.