Quotes on Procrastination

We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.

Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary.

No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.

Those who are late will be punished by life itself.

You must not procrastinate. Rather, you should make preparations so that even if you did die tonight, you would have no regrets. If you develop an appreciation for the uncertainty and imminence of death, your sense of the importance of using your time wisely will get stronger and stronger.

Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered by tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do to-day.

By the streets of 'by and by,' one arrives at the house of 'never'.

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.

Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.

The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed. Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny. This second we can turn the tables on Resistance. This second, we can sit down and do our work.

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

I have so very much. I have so very little.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task

We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words ‘Too Late’.

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