Procrastination Quotes - Page 3

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

  Richard Miller

  Jobs, Inspire, Want

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• A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

  Lord Acton

  Success, Wise, Time

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Philosophy

  Denis Waitley (1985). “The Winners Edge”, Berkley

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

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Done, Positive Living

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• Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

  Don Marquis

  Witty, Art, Greatness

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

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• 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.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Time, Work, Two

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.2, Nayika Publishing

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• Procrastination always gives you something to look forward to.

  Joan Konner

  Giving, Looks, Funny Procrastination

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• If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Motivational, Business, Inspiration

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1951). “The Novels of Ivan Turgenev: Virgin soil”

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• Procrastinate now, don't put it off.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Life, Paradox

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

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• By the streets of 'by and by,' one arrives at the house of 'never'.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  House, Streets, Stop Procrastination

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• Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Leadership, Sports, Dragons

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• If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Death, Drinking, Beer

  "On Murder, Considered as One of the Fine Arts" (1839)

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• The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.

  Josh Billings

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Josh Billings (1874). “Josh Billings' Wit and Humor”, p.208

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• Procrastination is the kidnapper of souls and the recruiting-officer of hell.

  Edward Irving

  Soul, Hell, Procrastinating

  Edward Irving (1824). “For the oracles of God, four orations. For judgment to come ...”, p.560

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• Deliberando saepe perit occasio [The opportunity often slips away while we deliberate on it].

  Publilius Syrus

  Opportunity, Deliberate, Slips

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• Eventually, time takes care of everything. The trouble with procrastination is that people give up on it too soon.

  Robert Breault

  Giving Up, People, Care

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• half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Frustrated, Half, Putting Things Off

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1823). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Popular tales. 1823”, p.363

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• The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started.

  Dawson Trotman

  Time, Waste, Evangelism

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

  David Lloyd George

  Motivation, Character, Persistence

  David Lloyd George (1918). “The Great Crusade: Extracts from Speeches Delivered During the War”

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• Do not put your work off till to-morrow and the day after; for a sluggish worker does not fill his barn, nor one who puts off his work: industry makes work go well, but a man who puts off work is always at hand-grips with ruin.

  Hesiod

  Men, Hands, Ruins

  Hesiod, Hugh G. Evelyn-White (2006). “Works and Days, Theogony and the Shield of Heracles”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.

  Charles Dickens

  Thieves, Classic, Collars

  Charles Dickens (2016). “David Copperfield (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.131, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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

  Rita Mae Brown

  Failure, Done, Lasts

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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 is
  the fear of success.

  Denis Waitley

  Fear Of Success

  Denis Waitley (1985). “The Winners Edge”, Berkley

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• Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Wrestling

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