Procrastination Quotes - Page 10

Every thing in human character goes to wreck, under the reign of procrastination, while prompt action gives to all things a corresponding and proportional life and energy.

Such is our impatience, such our hatred of procrastination, to everything but the amendment of our practices and the adornment of our nature, one would imagine we were dragging Time along by force, and not he us.

Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!

Festination may prove Precipitation; Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.

The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to the active prosecution of whatever he is desirous to perform. It is true, that no diligence can ascertain success; death may intercept the swiftest career; but he who is cut off in the execution of an honest undertaking has at least the honour of falling in his rank, and has fought the battle, though he missed the victory.

By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there's no more future left for them.

Lingering labors come to naught.

The most life destroying word of all is the word tomorrow.

If you do not act on a suggestion at first, you grow dull to its message.

During a very busy life I have often been asked, "How did you manage to do it all?" The answer is very simple. It is because I did everything promptly.

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

Deliberando saepe perit occasio

Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the master work. Now, I'm beginning what I could have started ten years ago. But I'm happy at least that I didn't wait twenty years.

Photo of boy with white dirt on his faceYou may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.

We pass our life in deliberation, and we die upon it.

Procrastination can be driven from your personality through the simple technique of constantly commanding yourself to get into action . . . and then obeying that command immediately.

When you find yourself on the Internet when you're supposed to be writing, you've already lost. It's even beyond procrastination when you end up on the Internet.

Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.

half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow.

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

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.

Procrastination is another form of resistance

The real difference between those who want to write and those that do, is that those that do get up every day and do it.

If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.