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Procrastination Quotes

Be motivated by these inspirational procrastination quotes. Let these words of wisdom in these quotes and sayings inspire and motivate you to take action rather than procrasinate!

"If and When were planted, and Nothing grew."
Proverb

"Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried."
Author Unknown

“You may delay, but time will not.”
Benjamin Franklin

“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

"The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started."
Dawson Trotman

"Procrastination is the thief of time."
Edward Young

"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."
Don Marquis

"You don't have to see the whole staircase,
just take the first step."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Even if you're on the right track -
you'll get run over if you just sit there."
Will Rogers

“Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the “someday I’ll” philosophy.”
Denis Waitley


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"Doing just a little bit during the time we have available puts you that much further ahead than if you took no action at all."
Byron Pulsifer, from Take Action; Don't Procrastinate

"Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today."
Benjamin Franklin

"Don't wait for someone to take you under their wing. Find a good wing and climb up underneath it."
Frank C. Bucaro

"Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing!"
Donald Gardner

"Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the “someday I’ll” philosophy."
Denis Waitley

"Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard one makes it impossible."
George H. Lorimer

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."
Walt Disney

"Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today."
Benjamin Franklin

"In delay there lies no plenty."
William Shakespeare

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"Stop talking. Start walking."
L.M. Heroux

"Don't wait. The time will never be just right."
Napoleon Hill

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

"To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as...to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead."
Og Mandino

"Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don't count."
Dr. Robert Anthony

"He who hesitates is last."
Mae West

"Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill."
Christopher Parker

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."
Sally Berger

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

"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday and avoiding today."
Wayne Dyer

"When there is a hill to climb, don't think that waiting will make it smaller."
Author Unknown

"Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started."
David Allen

"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

"Begin while others are procrastinating.
Work while others are wishing.
William Arthur Ward, from Believe while others ….

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
Anne Frank

"Don't procrastinate. Putting off an unpleasant task until tomorrow simply gives you more time for your imagination to make a mountain out a possible molehill. More time for anxiety to sap your self-confidence. Do it now, brother, do it now. "
Author Unknown, from Ten Ways to Worry Less and Accomplish More

"The two rules of procrastination:
1) Do it today.
2) Tomorrow will be today tomorrow."
Author Unknown

"Initiative - take it, rather than procrastinate."
Catherine Pulsifer, from Time Will Continue To Tick By

"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

"A year from now you may wish you had started today."
Karen Lamb

How soon not now, becomes never.
Martin Luther King

"Someday is not a day of the week."
Author Unknown

"Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week."
Spanish Proverb

"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."
Abraham Lincoln

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

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