Quotes on Procrastination

Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.

The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.

Hope is critical to both faith and charity. When disobedience, disappointment, and procrastination erode faith, hope is there to uphold our faith. When frustration and impatience challenge charity, hope braces our resolve and urges us to care for our fellowmen even without expectation of reward. The brighter our hope, the greater our faith. The stronger our hope, the purer our charity.

If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.

Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.

Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Procrastination gives you time to consider divergent ideas, to think in nonlinear ways, to make unexpected leaps.

Hesitation is often like procrastination. One may have vague doubts and feel a need to mull things over; meanwhile, other issues intrude on thought, and no decision is taken. Ask people why they procrastinate, and you probably won't get a crisp answer.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

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.

Plan to be spontaneous tomorrow.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

The trouble is that you think you have time.

Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.

Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.

If you wait until all the lights are 'green' before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top.

Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.

We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?

Everyone who is taken by death asks for more time, while everyone who still has time makes excuses for procrastination.