Funny Procrastination Quotes

• I never put off till tomorrow what I can do the day after.

  Oscar Wilde

  Procrastination, Tomorrow, Procrastinator

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• I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approach to not getting things done.

  Susan Orlean

  Procrastination, Thinking, Creative

  "Named" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. July 19, 2010.

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

  Christopher Parker

  Fun, Attitude, Procrastination

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• Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode.

  Don Roff

  Procrastination, Panic, Efficiency

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• I'm going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow!

  Sam Levenson

  Time, Procrastination, Starting Over

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• Procrastination always gives you something to look forward to.

  Joan Konner

  Procrastination, Giving, Looks

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• The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

  Don Marquis

  Witty, Art, Procrastination

  archy and mehitabel (1927) "certain maxims of archy"

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

  Rita Mae Brown

  Failure, Procrastination, Done

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• I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Funny, Work, Humorous

  Three Men in a Boat ch. 15 (1889)

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• Procrastination isn't the problem. It's the solution. It's the universe's way of saying stop, slow down, you move too fast.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Moving, Procrastination, Way

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• Procrastinate now, don't put it off.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Life, Procrastination

  "Ellen DeGeneres: Here and Now". Comedy, Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2003.

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  You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Basketball, Peace

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

  Napoleon Hill

  Business, Procrastination, Should Have

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.28, Penguin

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• Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

  William James

  Motivational, Clever, Procrastination

  William James (2008). “The Letters of William James”, p.249, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Someday is not a day of the week.

  Janet Dailey

  Inspirational, Positive, I Hate You

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• When all is said and done, more is said than done.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Football, College

  Twitter post from Aug 22, 2011

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• You may delay, but time will not.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.43, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  "Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays Vol. 1 1852-1890".

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• The trouble is that you think you have time.

  Jack Kornfield

  Procrastination, Thinking, Trouble

  Jack Kornfield (1994). “Buddha's Little Instruction Book”, Bantam

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  Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.

  Richard Miller

  Jobs, Procrastination, Inspire

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

  Robert Benchley

  Funny, Work, Procrastination

  Quoted in The AlgonquinWits, ed. Robert E. Drennan (1968)

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• Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

  George C. Lorimer

  Inspirational, Procrastination, Putting Things Off

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• Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

  Milan Kundera

  Inspirational, Funny, Ambition

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