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Procrastination Quotes
I've included a funny video on procrastination by Ellen DeGeneres. Struggling with procrastination? Check this EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) video to clear procrastination tendencies. Procrastination Quotes Index
About Procrastination"Procrastination is opportunity’s natural assassin." "Procrastination is the thief of time." "Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday and avoiding today." "Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday." "Procrastination is the seed of self-destruction." Return to Index of Procrastination Quotes Benefits of Action"He who puts off nothing till tomorrow has done a great deal." "If you have goals and procrastination you have nothing. If you have goals and you take action, you will have anything you want." Return to Index of Procrastination Quotes Comebacks to Procrastinator’s Excuses"A year from now you may wish you had started today." "Someday is not a day of the week." "One of these days is none of these days." "Stop talking. Start walking." Return to Index of Procrastination Quotes Consequences of Procrastination
"If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it." "In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it." "In delay there lies no plenty." "Procrastination is, hands down, our favorite form of self-sabotage." "Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried." "Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy." Return to Index of Procrastination Quotes "Procrastination has robbed us of too many opportunities." "The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to a close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences." "Those who are late will be punished by life itself." "Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable." "Procrastination is the kidnapper of souls and the recruiting-officer of hell." Return to Index of Procrastination Quotes "Procrastination has been called a thief,--the thief of time. I wish it were no worse than a thief. It is a murderer; and that which it kills is not time merely, but the immortal soul." "Avoid delays: procrastination always does harm." "Do not put your work off till to-morrow and the day after; for a sluggish worker does not fill his barn, nor one who puts off his work: industry makes work go well, but a man who puts off work is always at hand-grips with ruin." "Depression turned my body, mind and soul into concrete; procrastination turned my heart into a block of dirty ice." "The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large." Return to Index of Procrastination Quotes Do It Now"A year from now you may wish you had started today." "The two rules of procrastination: "Don’t procrastinate. Putting off an unpleasant task until tomorrow simply give you more time for your imagination to make a mountain out a possible molehill. More time for anxiety to sap your self-confidence. Do it now, brother, do it now." "We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?" "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." "Kabeer, that which you have to do tomorrow - do it today instead; and that which you have to do now - do it immediately! Later on, you will not be able to do anything, when death hangs over your head." "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." Return to Index of Procrastination Quotes EFT Video to Clear ProcrastinationEFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) is a technique which helps clear unwanted habits and fears by tapping on accupressure points. Check out this video and post your experiences.
Return to Index of Procrastination Quotes Funny Video on ProcrastinationJust thought you might enjoy a good laugh as you watch Ellen DeGeneres do a little skit on procrastination. Return to Index of Procrastination Quotes Good Advice"Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today." "Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves." "If you wait until all the lights are “green” before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top." "Don't wait for someone to take you under their wing. Find a good wing and climb up underneath it." "Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all." "Don’t wait. The time will never be just right". "We shall never have more time. We have, and have always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going day in and day out. Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs." "Procrastination usually results in sorrowful regret. Today’s duties put off until tomorrow give us a double burden to bear; the best way is to do them in their proper time." Return to Index of Procrastination Quotes "Begin while others are procrastinating. Work while others are wishing." "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." "Initiative – take it, rather than procrastinate." "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." "You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good." "Don't wait for your "ship to come in," and feel angry and cheated when it doesn't. Get going with something small." "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." "So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late." "You must not procrastinate. Rather, you should make preparations so that even if you did die tonight, you would have no regrets. If you develop an appreciation for the uncertainty and imminence of death, your sense of the importance of using your time wisely will get stronger and stronger." The habit of always putting off an experience until you can afford it, or until the time is right, or until you know how to do it is one of the greatest burglars of joy. Be deliberate, but once you've made up your mind--jump in." "Procrastinating does nothing more than add to your do list. Do it, be done with it! Return to Index of Procrastination Quotes How to Stop Procrastination"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." "You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." "Doing just a little bit during the time we have available puts you that much further ahead than if you took no action at all." "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." "Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today." "Often just by taking action, by doing something about the situation can relieve the stress and help correct the situation." Return to Index of Procrastination Quotes Insightful"When there is a hill to climb, don’t think that waiting will make it smaller." And someone rightly commented: "Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle." "Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back." "It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in." "Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the “someday I’ll” philosophy". "Waiting is a trap. There will always be reason to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don’t count." "Procrastination is a way for us to be satisfied with second-rate results; we can always tell ourselves we'd have done a better job if only we'd had more time. If you're good at rationalizing, you can keep yourself feeling rather satisfied this way, but it's a cheap happy. You're whittling your expectations of yourself down lower and lower." Return to Index of Procrastination Quotes "When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice." "Every thing in human character goes to wreck, under the reign of procrastination, while prompt action gives to all things a corresponding and proportional life and energy." "No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare." "Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity." "How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time." "Perhaps the most valuable result of al education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not." "To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring the enjoyment; so that to be idle or industrious, vicious or virtuous, is but with a view of procrastinating the one or the other." Return to Index of Procrastination Quotes "...who waits until circumstances completely favor his undertaking, will never accomplish anything." "Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow." "There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today." "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult." "When you say, "Wait a moment," you are bound by your karma; when you say "Yes I will," you are free." Return to Index of Procrastination Quotes Inspirational"He who begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin." "Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible." "The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They're full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too." Return to Index of Procrastination Quotes Jaded"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow." "Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment." "Eventually, time takes care of everything. The trouble with procrastination is that people give up on it too soon." Return to Index of Procrastination Quotes Procrastination and Deadlines"If it weren't for the last minute, I wouldn't get anything done." "I do my work at the same time each day - the last minute." "I love deadlines. Especially the whooshing sound they make as they pass by." Return to Index of Procrastination Quotes Procrastination and Time"You may delay, but time will not." "Yesterday is a cancelled cheque. Tomorrow is a promissory note. Today is the only cash you have, so spend it wisely." "The trouble is that you think you have time." Return to Index of Procrastination Quotes Procrastination Jokes"Procrastination is like a credit card: it’s a lot of fun until you get the bill." "I’m going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow!" "Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing!" "Procrastination is something best put off until tomorrow." "I've been looking over the list of spring chores I made up last fall, and darned if they aren't fall chores, after all." "You know you are getting old when it takes too much effort to procrastinate." "Procrastination is like masturbation. At first it feels good, but in the end you're only screwing yourself." "Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan." Return to Index of Procrastination Quotes Procrastinator’s Excuses"One of the greatest labor-saving inventions of today is tomorrow." "Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday." "There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to be done around the house." "Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow!" "I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours." "My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season." Return to Index of Procrastination Quotes Profound"Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." "Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible." "Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started." "There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back." "The best way to get something done is to begin." "Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it." "To be always intending to make a new and better life but never find time to set about it is as…to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to next until you’re dead." Return to Index of Procrastination Quotes "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 blooming outside our windows today." "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." "The dread of doing a task uses up more time and energy than doing the task itself." "Lose this day loitering; t'will be the same old story tomorrow, and the next day more dilatory … Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting o'er lost days." "Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with. It is the only decent way to live." "It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish." Return to Index of Procrastination Quotes Proverbs"Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week." "What may be done at any time will be done at no time." "If and When were planted, and Nothing grew." "What can be done at any time is never done at all." "Postpone not a good action." "Anger is the only thing to put off till tomorrow." Return to Index of Procrastination Quotes Tomorrow"Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week." "Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform." "Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man." Return to Index of Procrastination Quotes Value of Time"Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do 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 greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started." "Time wasted is existence; used is life." By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there's no more future left for them." "Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of." "It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up - that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." "Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind." "Think of all the years passed by in which you said to yourself "I'll do it tomorrow," and how the gods have again and again granted you periods of grace of which you have not availed yourself. It is time to realize that you are a member of the Universe, that you are born of Nature itself, and to know that a limit has been set to your time. Use every moment wisely, to perceive your inner refulgence, or 'twill be gone and nevermore within your reach." Return to Index of Procrastination Quotes Return to Life Quotes - from Procrastination Quotes
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