Stop Procrastination Quotes - Page 3

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

  Dawson Trotman

  Time, Procrastination, Waste

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• How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.

  Fred Brooks

  Procrastination, Years, One Day At A Time

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

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Procrastination, House, Streets

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• No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Procrastination, Long, Tasks

  Charles Baudelaire (1956). “The Essence of Laughter: And Other Essays, Journals, and Letters”

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

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Happiness, Leadership, Procrastination

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

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• The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.

  Winston Churchill

  Procrastination, Entering, Delay

  Sir Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches”, p.126, A&C Black

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• The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Happiness, Procrastination, Men

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.45, Fordham Univ Press

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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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• 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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• 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 most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspiring, Education, Procrastination

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Basketball, Peace

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• People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now.

  Denis Waitley

  Moving, Procrastination, People

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

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• Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes in a day.

  Denis Waitley

  Procrastination, Opportunity, Numbers

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• You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Positive, Faith

  Mother Jones Magazine, Vol.16, No.3, p.77, May - June 1991.

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  Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Motivational, Sports, Congratulations

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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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• Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  "Lord Chesterfield's Advice to His Son, on Men and Manners: Or, A New System of Education". Book by Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield, 1815.

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• Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

  Sydney J. Harris (1953). “Strictly personal”

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• Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Attributed in "Forbes", Volume 102, 1968.

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• I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Life, Beautiful, Work

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• Someday is not a day of the week.

  Janet Dailey

  Inspirational, Positive, I Hate You

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