Funny Procrastination Quotes

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Procrastination, Tomorrow, Procrastinator

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Basketball, Peace

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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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• Someday is not a day of the week.

  Janet Dailey

  Inspirational, Positive, I Hate You

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

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The time to begin most things is ten years ago.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Time, Procrastination, Years

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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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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• The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.533

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