Stop Procrastination Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They're full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Jobs, Procrastination, Zest

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

  Alyce Cornyn-Selby

  Procrastination, Self, Hands

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• Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Procrastination, Putting Things Off, Impossible

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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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• Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don't count.

  Robert Anthony

  Life, Motivational, Procrastination

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

  Sam Levenson

  Time, Procrastination, Starting Over

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• Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Inspirational, Positive, Time

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.130

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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, Procrastination

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

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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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• If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

  Lee Iacocca

  Procrastination, Starting Over, Waiting

  "Stop procrastinating in 3 minutes with one simple question" by Chris Winfield, www.businessinsider.com. February 23, 2015.

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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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• No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire today.

  Denis Waitley

  Procrastination, Past, Matter

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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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• Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

  Edward Young

  Procrastination, Men, Heaven

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• All things come to those who wait.

  Violet Fane

  Patience, Funny Inspirational, Life Changing

  Violet Fane (1872). “From Dawn to Noon: Poems”, p.85

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