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Quotes about Procrastination

He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
— Oscar Wilde
Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.
— Dale Carnegie
We have all read the golden rule and the Sermon on the Mount. Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.
— Dale Carnegie
The future was coming to me, but I had not so much as lifted a foot to go to it.
— Wendell Berry
I notice how it takes a lazy man, a man that hates moving, to get set on moving once he does get started off, the same as he was set on staying still, like it aint the moving he hates so much as the starting and the stopping.
— William Faulkner
Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. Change your thoughts and you change your world.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.
— Steven Pressfield
Laziness means more work in the long run.
— CS Lewis
Someone once defined hard work as the accumulation of the easy things you didn't do when you should have.
— John Maxwell
Action cures fear. Indecision, postponement, on the other hand, fertilize fear.
— David Joseph Schwartz
Delay is preferable to error.
— Thomas Jefferson
The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.
— CS Lewis