Procrastination Quotes - Page 8

• Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Strong, Sight, Views

  Miyamoto Musashi, Victor Harris (2007). “A Book of Five Rings: With the Unfettered Mind”

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• It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the master work. Now, I'm beginning what I could have started ten years ago. But I'm happy at least that I didn't wait twenty years.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fear, Years, Waiting

  "The Alchemist". Book by Paulo Coelho, 1988.

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• Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with. It is the only decent way to live.

  M. Scott Peck

  Pain, Way To Live, Firsts

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can everything.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Heart, Opportunity

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• God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.

  Saint Augustine

  Christian, Prayer, Religion

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• If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.

  Lee Iacocca

  Education, Business, Numbers

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• If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.43, Tuttle Publishing

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

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Time, Years, Getting Older

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

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• Yesterday is a cancelled check;
  Tomorrow is a promissory note;
  Today is the only cash you have,
  so spend it wisely.

  Kim Lyons

  Inspirational, Life, Time

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• Addiction, self-sabotage, procrastination, laziness, rage, chronic fatigue, and depression are all ways that we withhold our full participation in the program of life we are offered. When the conscious mind cannot find a reason to say no, the unconscious says no in its own way.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Self, Addiction, Mind

  Charles Eisenstein (2013). “The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible”, p.2, North Atlantic Books

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• The best thing you can do is follow your dreams

  The Rev

  Motivational, Change, Positive

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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

  Thinking, Creative, Done

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

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• I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

  Denzel Washington

  Life, Success, Faith

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• Tear thyself from delay.

  Horace

  Tears, Delay, Thyself

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• Lingering labors come to naught.

  Robert Southwell

  Labor, Lingering

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• Stop putting it off! Procrastination breeds guilt, guilt breeds depression, and depression breeds failure.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Guilt

  Twitter post from Jun 28, 2016

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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, Humor

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

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• Someday is not a day of the week.

  Janet Dailey

  Inspirational, Positive, I Hate You

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• We need to give thought, but we also need to take action. You need to dream without just being a dreamer.

  Jim Rohn

  Dream, Giving, Entrepreneur

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 27, 2016

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• Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Happiness, Decision

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.40, Lulu Press, Inc

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• If you wait until all the lights are 'green' before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top.

  Zig Ziglar

  Success, Wise, Business

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Aug 08, 2014

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• The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, New Beginnings

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• Great acts are made up of small deeds.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Bad Day, Tao Te Ching

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Happiness, Leadership, Intelligent

  Leonardo Da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”

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• Nothing so perilous as procrastination

  John Lyly

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.58, Manchester University Press

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