Famous Quotes & Sayings

Napoleon Hill

You must master the habit of procrastination and eliminate it from your wake-up. This habit of putting off until tomorrow that which you should have done last week or last year or a score of years ago is gnawing at the very vitals of your being and you can accomplish nothing until you throw it off.

Orison Swett Marden

A lobster, when left high and dry among the rock, does not have the sense enough to work his way back to the sea, but waits for the sea to come to him. If it does not come, he remains where he is and dies, although the slightest effort would enable him to reach the waves, which are perhaps within a yard of him. The world is full of human lobsters; people stranded on the rocks of indecision and procrastination, who, instead of putting forth their own energies, are waiting for some grand billow of good fortune to set them afloat.

All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false.

Joanne Harris

I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia.

James Surowiecki

Addictive behavior is kind of the inverse of procrastination: procrastination is about not being able to do what you want to do, addiction about not being able to not do what you don't want to do (drink, use drugs, etc.)

James Surowiecki

One of the problems that exacerbates procrastination is the feeling that you have lots of different things to do and no clear sense of which matter more, when they should be done, etc.

James Surowiecki

I do think that procrastination evolved in humans for good reasons. If you're trying to stay alive as a human being on the savanna 20,000 years ago, worrying about what's right behind that bush is a lot more important than worrying about what might happen three weeks from now.

James Surowiecki

I think there is clearly a connection between free time and procrastination. The more you have of the former, all things being equal, the more likely you are to procrastinate.

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.

Elle Varner

Tomorrow, the busiest day of the week. I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating.

Tony Robbins

The best way to deal with procrastination is to postpone it.

Robert Anthony

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Postpone not your life.

Lee Iacocca

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

Lee Iacocca

If we screw it up, start over. Try something else.

Marcus Aurelius

Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live.

Marcus Aurelius

Think of all the years passed by in which you said to yourself "I'll do it tomorrow," and how the gods have again and again granted you periods of grace of which you have not availed yourself. It is time to realize that you are a member of the Universe, that you are born of Nature itself, and to know that a limit has been set to your time. Use every moment wisely, to perceive your inner refulgence, or 'twill be gone and nevermore within your reach.

James Altucher

Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Peace is more than a lofty ideal. It is a practical principle that, with conscious effort, can become a normal part of our lives as we deal with matters both large and small. One habit that prevents inner peace is procrastination. It clutters our minds with unfinished business and makes us uneasy until we finish a task and get it out of the way.

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.

Lauryn Hill

I have a problem with procrastination. I have a great deal of difficulty deciding what to wear. It's a woman thing.

John Updike

Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit.

Tavi Gevinson

The best cure for procrastination is to have so much on your plate that procrastination is no longer an option.

Peter Drucker

Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

John Flanagan

If and perhaps.... The language of procrastination and uncertainty. That's just people looking to justify their own lack of action.

Paulo Coelho

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.

Quintilian

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

Ovid

If you are not ready today, you will be even less so tomorrow.

Joan Konner

Procrastination always gives you something to look forward to.

Eric Thomas

Once I finished, I got that procrastination monkey off my back! And I started seeing doors opening.

John Ortberg

Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.