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Quotes about Procrastination

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.
— Samuel Johnson
The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards; they will be dissipated, lost and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.
— Maria Edgeworth
He who hesitates is last.
— Mae West
For every ten men who are physically lazy there are ten thousand with stagnant minds. And stagnant minds are the breeding places of fear.
— Napoleon Hill
Don't wait! The time will never be just right.
— Napoleon Hill
Indecision and procrastination are twin brothers. Where one is found, the other may usually be found also. Kill off this pair before they completely hog-tie you to the treadmill of failure.
— Napoleon Hill
Who loses a day loses life.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The spiritual leader will not procrastinate when faced with a decision, nor vacillate after making it. A sincere but faulty decision is better than weak-willed trial balloons or indecisive overtures. To postpone decision is really to decide for the status quo. In most decisions the key element is not so much knowing what to do but in living with the results.
— J. Oswald Sanders
The time to shift your priorities in the direction of Destiny is never convenient. There will always be a reason to put it off until later.
— Bishop TD Jakes
Procrastination is illogical from every viewpoint. It is like the man who wanted to cross the stream, so he sat on the bank to wait for all the water to run by.
— Vernon Howard
The first rule of frog eating is this: If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first.
— Brian Tracy