Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Collier

If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem... break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.

Rhonda Britten

The first is based in fear, the second in fearlessness.

Robert Southwell

Lingering labors come to naught.

Zig Ziglar

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

Walter Savage Landor

Such is our impatience, such our hatred of procrastination, to everything but the amendment of our practices and the adornment of our nature, one would imagine we were dragging Time along by force, and not he us.

Walter Mosley

Many writers-in-waiting spend a lot of time avoiding the work at hand. The most common way to avoid writing is by procrastination. This is the writer's greatest enemy. There is little to say about it except that once you decide to write every day, you must make yourself sit at the desk or table for the required period whether or not you are putting down words. Make yourself take the time even if the hours seem fruitless. Ideally, after a few days or weeks of being chained to the desk, you will submit to the story that must be told.

Jorge Luis Borges

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.

Ellen DeGeneres

I have a terrible problem with procrastination... a friend told me, "Well, you should go to therapy." And I thought about it, but then I said, "Wait a minute. Why should I pay a stranger to listen to me talk when I can get strangers to pay to listen to me talk?" And that's when I got the idea of touring.

Epictetus

Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.