Quotations about Procrastination

Quotations about Procrastination




The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.
~Author Unknown

If it weren't for the last minute, I wouldn't get anything done.
~Author Unknown

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.
~Robert Benchley


There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.
~Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister


It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.
~Earl of Chesterfield

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.
~Edward Young

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
~Mark Twain


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


A year from now you may wish you had started today.
~Karen Lamb


Procrastination is like masturbation. At first it feels good, but in the end you're only screwing yourself.
~Author Unknown


One of these days is none of these days.
~Attributed to both Henri Tubach and H.G. Bohn

Procrastination is the thief of time.
~Edward Young

"If and When were planted,
and Nothing grew."
~Proverb

"Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried."
~Author Unknown

“You may delay, but time will not.”
~Benjamin Franklin

“In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do. The worst thing you can do is nothing.”
~Theodore Roosevelt

"The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started."
~Dawson Trotman

"Procrastination is the thief of time."
~Edward Young


One of the greatest labor-saving inventions of today is tomorrow.
~Vincent T. Foss


You may delay, but time will not.
~Benjamin Franklin

Someday is not a day of the week.
~Author Unknown

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.
~Eva Young

Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
~C. Northcote Parkinson, 1958

Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
~Victor Kiam


If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.
~Olin Miller

"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."
~Don Marquis

"You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
~Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Even if you're on the right track -
you'll get run over if you just sit there."
~Will Rogers

“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

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.
~Scottish Proverb


There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to be done around the house.
~Joe Ryan

Procrastination is something best put off until tomorrow.
~Gerald Vaughan

The best way to get something done is to begin.
~Author Unknown

You know you are getting old when it takes too much effort to procrastinate.
~Author Unknown


I do my work at the same time each day - the last minute.
~Author Unknown


Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
~Spanish Proverb


The time to begin most things is ten years ago.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.
~George Claude Lorimer

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
~William James

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
~Don Marquis

Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday.
~Author Unknown

Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.
~Charles Kingsley


The two rules of procrastination:
1) Do it today.
2) Tomorrow will be today tomorrow.
~Author Unknown