Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Procrastination.
That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.
Charles Dickens
Delay is the deadliest form of denial.
C. Northcote Parkinson
There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.
David Lloyd George
Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.
Charles Richter
He who hesitates is probably right.
Bogovich
No age or time of life, no position or circumstance, has a monopoly on success. Any age is the right age to start doing!
Ralph Gerard
Festination may prove Precipitation;Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
Sir Thomas Browne, Christian Mor
Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard one makes it impossible.
George H. Lonmer
My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.
He who hesitates is last.
Mae West
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
The world is full of human lobsters; men 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.
Orison Swett Marden
When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish-it is then that you must not hesitate.
Dag Hammarskjold
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
Samuel Butler
Habitual procrastinators will readily testify to all the lost opportunities, missed deadlines, failed relationships and even monetary losses incurred just because of one nasty habit of putting things off until it is often too late.
Stephen Richards
Don't wait for someone to take you under their wing. Find a good wing and climb up underneath it.
Frank C. Bucaro
We hate delays by others, but sometimes it makes us wise.
Proverb
He who begins and does not finish loves their pains.
If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem... break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.
Robert Collier
It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish.
J. R. R. Tolkien