Procrastination Quotations | Page 2

Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.

Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.

Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork.

There is a difference between procrastination and patience just as there is a difference between wanting to wait and needing to wait.

How soon 'not now' becomes 'never'!

We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked, and dejected with a lost opportunity. . . . Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words, 'Too late.' ... Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new world.

We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words ‘Too Late’.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced.

half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow.