Procrastination Quotes And Sayings

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“The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They’re full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too.”
– Norman Vincent Peale

“If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.”
– Olin Miller

“To be always intending to make a new and better life but never find time to set about it is as…to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to next until you’re dead.”
– Oq Mandino

“I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.”
– Pearl S. Buck

“Unhappy he who does this work adjourn, And to to morrow would the search delay: His lazy morrow will be like to day. But is one day of ease too much to borrow ? Yes, sure: for yesterday was once to morrow.”
– Perseus

“If I am not for myself, who is for me? When I am for myself, what am I? If not now, when?”
– Rabbi Hillel

“Procrastination is a way for us to be satisfied with second-rate results; we can always tell ourselves we’d have done a better job if only we’d had more time. If you’re good at rationaliziing, you can keep yourself feeling rather satisfied this way, but it’s a cheap happy. You’re whittling your expectations of yourself down lower and lower.”
– Richard O’Conner

“The dread of doing a task uses up more time and energy than doing the task itself.”
– Rita Emmett

“Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.”
– Robert Benchley

“By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there’s no more future left for them.”
– Robert L’Estrange

“Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible.”
– Robert Schuller

“I’m going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow!”
– Sam Levenson

“Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.”
– Sandra Day O’Connor

“Procrastination has robbed us of too many opportunities.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach

“What may be done at any time will be done at no time.”
– Scottish Proverb

“Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind”
– Sir Isaac Pitman

“Anger is the only thing to put off till tomorrow.”
– Slovakian proverb

“Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.”
– Spanish Proverb

“If we accept and internalize the fact of our own mortality, then, by definition, we have to deal with the essential questions of how we live and spend our allotted time. We have to stop procrastinating, pretending that we have forever to do what we want to do and be what we long to be.”
– Surya Das

“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.”
– Sydney Harris

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

“The next day is never so good as the day before.”
– Syrus

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

“In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do. The worst thing you can do is nothing.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Delay is as hateful as it is dangerous.”
– Thomas Holcroft

“Perhaps the most valuable result of al education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.”
– Thomas Huxley

“If you have goals and procrastination you have nothing. If you have goals and you take action, you will have anything you want.”
– Thomas J. Vilord

“Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.”
– Tom DeMarco

“Begin while other are procrastinating. Work while others are wishing.”
– Unknown

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