Procrastination Quotes - Page 6

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire today.

Indecisiveness and procrastination are the chosen ways of life for most people. They follow the course of least resistance, which is to do nothing. This provides a security blanket of never being wrong, never making mistakes, never being disappointed and never failing. But they will also never succeed.

Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence, as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination .

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.

Procrastination is assassination on the amazing future God has for you.

Live life like you mean it! Stop procrastinating! Do all that you can...with all that you have...in the place that you are...right now! Life is too unpredictable to put things off and not take it seriously.

Pay now, play later; play now, pay later.

I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia.

Hope is critical to both faith and charity. When disobedience, disappointment, and procrastination erode faith, hope is there to uphold our faith. When frustration and impatience challenge charity, hope braces our resolve and urges us to care for our fellowmen even without expectation of reward. The brighter our hope, the greater our faith. The stronger our hope, the purer our charity.

Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, etc., the problem is, we’re thinking like amateurs. Amateurs don’t show up. Amateurs crap out. Amateurs let adversity defeat them. The pro thinks differently. He shows up, he does his work, he keeps on truckin’, no matter what.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials.

If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

The trouble is that you think you have time.

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.

A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life.

Inaction that results from indulgence is Procrastination. Inaction that results from intention is Patience.

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’.

Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode.

One of the most serious human defects in all ages is procrastination, an unwillingness to accept personal responsibilities now.

Action will destroy your procrastination.

Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.

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.