Procrastination Quotes - Page 3

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.

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.

Do not say, 'When I have leisure, I will study,' because you may never have leisure.

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

If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.

It is not really work if you are having fun.

Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than risk failure, they prefer to create conditions that make success impossible, a reflex that of course creates a vicious cycle.

Unfinished business is our worst business. Perpetual procrastination must yield to perceptive preparation. Today we have a little more time to bless others-time to be kinder, more compassionate, quicker to thank and slower to scold, more generous in sharing, more gracious in caring.

We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked, and dejected with a lost opportunity. . . . Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words, 'Too late.' ... Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new world.

Your problems is that you think you have time.

Those who are late will be punished by life itself.

Procrastination is the best action against putting an ankle bracelet on future.

There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.

You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. What mood is that? Last-minute panic.

Punctuality is closely related to faithfulness and dependability. Being tardy can be linked to uninterest, apathy, slothfulness and procrastination.

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

Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.

Addiction, self-sabotage, procrastination, laziness, rage, chronic fatigue, and depression are all ways that we withhold our full participation in the program of life we are offered. When the conscious mind cannot find a reason to say no, the unconscious says no in its own way.

The best way to deal with procrastination is to postpone it.

We need to give thought, but we also need to take action. You need to dream without just being a dreamer.

Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.

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

Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.

You made delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again.

Hoping drains your energy. Action creates energy.