The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started.
Good things come to those who wait.
How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.
By the streets of 'by and by,' one arrives at the house of 'never'.
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.
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.
Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.
It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.
Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
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.
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.
No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.
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.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes in a day.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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.
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.
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.
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
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