Stop Procrastination Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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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• Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off forever.

  P. J. Plauger

  Inspirational, Funny Motivational, Procrastination

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• Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Time, Short Life

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

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• Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

  Dale Carnegie

  Motivational, Inspiring, Success

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

  Sam Levenson

  Time, Procrastination, Starting Over

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• There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.

  Tom DeMarco

  Inspiring, Live Life, Procrastination

  Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister (2013). “Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams”, p.35, Addison-Wesley

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• Procrastination is, hands down, our favorite form of self-sabotage.

  Alyce Cornyn-Selby

  Procrastination, Self, Hands

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• My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.

  Mary Todd Lincoln

  Procrastination, Evil, Genius

  Justin G. Turner, Linda Levitt Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln (1972). “Mary Todd Lincoln: her life and letters”, Random House Inc

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• Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  "Manners and speech or maxims extracted from Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son". Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1884.

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• He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!

  Horace

  Motivational, Positive, Wise

  "Epistles". Book by Horace, Book I, epistle ii, lines 40 - 41, c. 20 BC-14 BC.

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• Those who are late will be punished by life itself.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Procrastination, Late

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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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• If we accept and internalize the fact of our own mortality, then, by definition, we have to deal with the essential questions of how we live and spend our allotted time. We have to stop procrastinating, pretending that we have forever to do what we want to do and be what we long to be.

  Surya Das

  Procrastination, Long, Forever

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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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• This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Life, Procrastination, Humor

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• Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Yoga, Procrastination, Done

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.49, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

  Dawson Trotman

  Time, Procrastination, Waste

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• Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.

  Charles Kingsley

  Procrastination, Waiting, Return

  Charles Kingsley (1873). “Selections from Some of the Writings of the Rev. C. Kingsley, M.A.”, p.143

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• Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Creativity, Procrastination, Design

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.199, Wordsworth Editions

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• He who puts off nothing till tomorrow has done a great deal.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Procrastination, Done, Putting Things Off

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