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The Best Procrastination Quotes.

  • “Procrastination is like a credit card: it’s a lot of fun until you get the bill.” ~Christopher Parker
  • “Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.” ~Wayne Gretzky
  • “Action is the foundational key to all success.” ~Pablo Picasso
  • “In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do. The worst thing you can do is nothing.” ~Theodore Roosevelt
  • “The scholar’s greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.” ~Stephen King
  • “Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.” ~Don Marquis
  • “Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.” ~Thomas Jefferson
  • “I’m not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me.” ~Tom Brady
  • “Stop putting it off! Procrastination breeds guilt, guilt breeds depression, and depression breeds failure.” ~Barbara Corcoran
  • “The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” ~Mark Twain
  • “I knew that if I failed, I wouldn’t regret that, but the one thing I might regret was not trying” ~Jeff Bezos
  • “The momentum of continuous action fuels motivation, while procrastination kills motivation.” ~Steve Pavlina
  • “While wasting our time hesitating and procrastinating, life goes on.” ~Seneca
  • “Procrastination is the thief of time.” ~Edward Young
  • “To wish for change will change nothing. To make the decision to take action right now will change everything.” ~Nick Vujicic
  • “Nothing will work unless you do.” ~Maya Angelou
  • “The breeding ground of fear is procrastination and inaction. We overcome them not by preparation, but by taking action.” ~Debasish Mridha
  • “Dream big, start small, but most of all, start.” ~Simon Sinek
  • “Procrastination is, hands down, our favourite form of self-sabotage.” ~Alyce P.Cornyn-Selby
  • “Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started.” ~David Allen, productivity consultant
  • “Be not afraid of going slowly. Be afraid only of standing still.” ~Chinese proverb
  • “Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”  ~Dale Carnegie
  • “My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much later, or possibly never.” ~Craig Brown
  • “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” ~Tony Robbins
  • “I never worry about action, but only inaction.” ~Winston Churchill
  • “My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.” ~Charles Dickens
  • “Putting off an easy thing makes it hard and putting off a hard one makes it impossible.” ~George H. Lorimer
  • “If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem… break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.” ~Robert Collier
  • “Some people want it to happen, some people wish it would happen, others make it happen.” ~Michael Jordan
  • “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.” ~Sir Richard Tangye
  • “Procrastination is something best put off until tomorrow.” ~Gerald Vaughan
  • “Overcoming procrastination is not, I repeat, not about cramming additional work into your day … overcoming procrastination is about simplifying your life to make space for the activities that matter most.” ~Richie Norton
  • “God provides the wind, but man must raise the sails.” ~St. Augustine
  • “For every reason it’s not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.” ~Jack Canfield
  • “Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.” ~Thomas Jefferson
  • “Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.” ~Mason Cooley
  • “Let your actions do your talking for you.” ~Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
  • “Procrastination is the lazy cousin of fear. When we feel anxiety around an activity, we postpone it.” ~Noelle Hancock
  • “When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.” ~Confucius
  • “A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large.” ~Alyce P.Cornyn-Selby
  • “Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.” ~Napoleon Bonaparte
  • “Procrastination is opportunity’s assassin.” ~Victor Kiam

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