Procrastination Quotes And Sayings

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“Lose this day loitering; t’will be the same old story tomorrow, and the next day more dilatory … Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting o’er lost days.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.”
– John Andrew Holms

“Nothing so perilous as procrastination”
– John Lyly

“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
– Karen Lamb

“Yesterday is a cancelled cheque. Tomorrow is a promissory note. Today is the only cash you have, so spend it wisely.”
– Kim Lyons

“Stop talking. Start walking.”
– L.M. Heroux

“If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I’d say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.”
– Lee Iacocca

“So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don’t sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we’ve satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.”
– Lee Iacocca

“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.”
– Lord Chesterfield

“Avoid delays: procrastination always does harm.”
– Lucanus

“Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such 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.”
– M. Scott Peck

“Procrastination is a sin of lawyers, trial judges, reporters, appellate judges, in brief, everyone connected with the machinery of criminal law.”
– Macklin Fleming

“He who hesitates is last.”
– Mae West

“Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.”
– Mark Twain

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”
– Mark Twain

“…who waits until circumstances completely favor his undertaking, will never accomplish anything.”
– Martin Luther

“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
– Martin Luther King Jr

“How soon “not now” become “never”.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.

“My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry ’til a more convenient season.”
– Mary Todd Lincoln

“Do or do not do. There is no try.”
– Master Yoda

“Procrastination is the seed of self destruction.”
– Matthew Burton

“Don’t fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all.”
– Mignon McLaughlin

“The time to begin most things is ten years ago.”
– Mignon McLaughlin

“There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.”
– Mignon McLaughlin

“By the streets of ‘by and by,’ one arrives at the house of ‘never’.”
– Miguel De Cervantes

“Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.”
– Miguel De Cervantes

“Those who are late will be punished by life itself.”
– Mikhail Gorbachev

“Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things. Musashi
– Miyamoto

“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right”.
– Napoleon Hill

“Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.”
– Napoleon Hill

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