Quotes on Procrastination

Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with. It is the only decent way to live.

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

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

Procrastination is One of those Excuses, Born of Fear, that we Use to Keep Ourselves Stuck

The problem with waiting until tomorrow is that when it finally arrives, it is called today.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.

Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, etc., the problem is, we’re thinking like amateurs. Amateurs don’t show up. Amateurs crap out. Amateurs let adversity defeat them. The pro thinks differently. He shows up, he does his work, he keeps on truckin’, no matter what.

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes in a day.

Procrastination most often arises from a sense that there is too much to do, and hence no single aspect of the to-do worth doing. . . . Underneath this rather antic form of action-as-inaction is the much more unsettling question whether anything is worth doing at all.

No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire today.

Procrastination is_x000D_ the fear of success.

However much faith to obey God we now have, we will need to strengthen it continually and keep it refreshed constantly. We can do that by deciding now to be more quick to obey and more determined to endure. Learning to start early and to be steady are the keys to spiritual preparation. Procrastination and inconsistency are its mortal enemies.

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

Do not put your work off till to-morrow and the day after; for a sluggish worker does not fill his barn, nor one who puts off his work: industry makes work go well, but a man who puts off work is always at hand-grips with ruin.

The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic, self-loathing, and soul-crushing inadequacy. And that’s on a good day.

If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can everything.

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

The start is what stops most people.