Procrastination Quotes

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

Wayne Dyer

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

Andrew Young

Tear thyself from delay.

Horace

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started.

Dawson Trotman

All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.

Publilius Syrus

The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.

W. Edwards Deming

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

Napoleon Hill

If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.

Norman Vincent Peale

The best labor saving device is doing it tomorrow

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Someday is not a day of the week.

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I remember reading somewhere about an organization called Procrastinators Anonymous. I think they had been in existence for some years but had never gotten around to having a meeting.

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All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.

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Procrastination is opportunity's natural assassin.

Victor Kiam

How soon not now, becomes never.

Martin Luther

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.

Aaron Burr

We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.

Woodrow Wilson

Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.

Woodrow Wilson

During a very busy life I have often been asked, How did you manage to do it all? The answer is very simple. It is because I did everything promptly.

Richard Tangye