Samuel Okoruwa
Just think about all the times you wanted to do something important but you felt resistance to do it because it seemed too boring or unpleasant and then you procrastinated. It can be annoying when you want to complete that project or make that call but you feel the urge to procrastinate until you eventually give in. No matter how badly you avoid it, there will always be times you feel like this.
However, reading procrastination quotes can be a great way to pump you up and give you the inspiration to get things done. Here are 20 quotes by great minds to help you do exactly that.
1. “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”– Abraham Lincoln
2. “My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.”– Charles Dickens
3. “Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
4. “Getting an idea should be like sitting on a pin; it should make you jump up and do something.” – E.L. Simpson
5. “Following-through is the only thing that separates dreamers from people that accomplish great things.”
6. “The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.” – Alexander Graham Bell
7. “Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.” – Mason Cooley
8. “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.” – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
9. “Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.”– Michael Landon
10. “Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.” – Alexander Graham Bell
11. “To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.”– Sydney Smith
12. “If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem… break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.” – Robert Collier
13. “In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”– Theodore Roosevelt
14. “One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon – instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.” – Dale Carnegie
15. “Begin while others are procrastinating. Work while others are wishing.”– William Arthur Ward
16. “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
17. “He who every morning plans the transactions of that day and follows that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.”– Victor Hugo
18. “Perhaps the most valuable result of an education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.” – Thomas Huxley
19. “Procrastination is opportunity’s natural assassin.”– Victor Kiam
20. “My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.” – Charles Dickens
21. “Often just by taking action, by doing something about the situation can relieve the stress and help correct the situation.” – Catherine Pulsifer
22. “Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand—and melting like a snowflake.” – Francis Bacon
23. “During a very busy life I have often been asked, “How did you manage to do it all?” The answer is very simple. It is because I did everything promptly.” – Richard Tangye
24. “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.” – Seneca
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25. “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
26. “If you have goals and procrastination you have nothing. If you have goals and you take action, you will have anything you want.”– Thomas J. Vilord
27. “Following-through is the only thing that separates dreamers from people that accomplish great things.”– Gene Hayden
28. “A primary reason people don’t do new things is because they want to do them perfectly – first time. It’s completely irrational, impractical, not workable – and yet, it’s how most people run their lives. It’s called The Perfection Syndrome.” – Peter McWilliams and John Roger
29. “If you believe you can accomplish everything by “cramming” at the eleventh hour, by all means, don’t lift a finger now. But you may think twice about beginning to build your ark once it has already started raining.” – Max Brooks
30. “There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.” – David Lloyd George
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