Procrastination Quotes - Page 2

• Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.

  Christopher Parker

  Fun, Attitude, Cynical

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  Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

  Pope Paul VI

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.

  Mason Cooley

  Inspirational, Literature, Easy

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

  Ovid

  Today, Tomorrow, Ready

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• The problem with waiting until tomorrow is that when it finally arrives, it is called today.

  Jim Rohn

  Entrepreneur, Waiting, Today

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 10, 2013

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• To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Life, Drinking

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• We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Motivational, Acting

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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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• There is no dallying with God .

  James Ussher

  James Ussher, Joseph Crabb, Stanley Gower (1660). “Eighteen sermons preached in Oxford 1640: Of conversion, unto God. Of redemption, & justification, by Christ. By the Right Reverend James Usher, late Bishop of Armagh in Ireland. Published by Jos: Crabb. Will: Ball. Tho: Lye. ministers of the Gospel, who writ them from his mouth, and compared their copies together. With a preface concerning the life of the pious author, by the Reverend Stanly Gower, sometime chaplain to the said bishop. Now minister in Dorchester”, p.9

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• Who waits until circumstances completely favor his undertaking, will never accomplish anything.

  Martin Luther

  Waiting, Favors, Accomplish

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• He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Clever, Motivation, 4th Of July

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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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• Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Wise, Peace

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

  Quintilian

  Too Late, Grows, Deliberate

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• There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Motivational, Women, Yesterday And Today

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.107, BookBaby

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• We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Acting, Complaining

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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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• Lost time is never found again.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Positive, Time

  Benjamin Franklin (1821). “Essays and Letters”, p.80

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• Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.

  Michael Landon

  Motivational, Positive, Death

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.

  Horace

  Eye, Mind, Anxious

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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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• Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.

  James A. Michener

  Opportunity, Today, Tomorrow

  James A. Michener (2014). “The Drifters: A Novel”, p.528, Dial Press

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  Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Life, Change, Wise

  1952 In Time, 6 Oct.

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• You made delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Time, Delay, Lost

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  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 that are blooming outside our windows today.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.22, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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