Top 70 quotes that'll help you overcome Procrastination

70 quotes that'll help you over Procrastination

Procrastination has always been an enemy to success; every successful person must have overcome procrastination in his success journey. Procrastination basically kill goals and dreams, it even causes heightened stress, unhappiness and makes people feel insecure about their ability to do things right. It can even do a lot more harm to anybody. Considering the disadvantages of procrastination, I think that procrastination is an act that we all need to abolish. Looking below, you can see that I have brought you some quotes for you to be able to overcome this dreadful act.

1 “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.” – Seneca

2 “Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”- Alexandra Graham Bell [Scientist]

3 “Getting an idea should be like sitting on a pin: It should make you jump up and do something.”- E. L. Simpson

4 “Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard one makes it impossible.”- George H. Lorimer

5 “To think too long about doing a thing often becomes it’s undoing.”- Eva Young

6 “Somebody should tell us, right the start of our lives that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.”- Michael Landon

7 “Often just by taking action, by doing something about the situation can relieve the stress and help correct the situation.”- Catherine Pulsifer

8 “If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”- Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev [Russian novelist]

9 “Begin while others are procrastinating. Work while others are wishing.”- William Arthur Ward

10 “If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem…….break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.”- Robert Collier

11 “Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait-The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don’t count.”- Karen Lamb

12 “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”- Abraham Lincoln

13 “If you put off everything till you’re sure of it, you’ll never get anything done.”- Norman Vincent Peale [American Minister]

14 “A year from now you may wish you had started today.”- Karen Lamb

15 “In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do, the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”- Theodore Roosevelt

16 “Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake.”- Francis Bacon

17 “Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.”- Napoleon Bonaparte

18 “Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for things we did not do that is inconsolable.”- Sydney Harris [American journalist]

19 “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”- Jim Rohn

20 “A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms laige.”- Alyce P. Cornyn-Selby[Author]

21 “Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.”- Peter Drucker

22 “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.”- Richard Tangye

23 “Procrastination is hands down, our favorite form of self-sabotage.”- Alyce P. Cornyn-Selby[Author]

24 “We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few and acting as though there would be no end of them.”- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

25 “Time drinketh up the essence of every great and noble action, which ought to be performed, and is delayed in the execution.” -Vishnu Sarma

26 “Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning all together.” - Epictetus

27 “Time wasted is existence, used is life” -Edward young [English poet]

28 “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.” -Proverbs 14 verse 23”

29 “For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: ‘the one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.” -2 Thessalonians 3 verse 10

30 “How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.” –Fred Brooks

31 “If you have goals and procrastination you have nothing. If you have goals and you take action, you will have anything you want.” –Thomas Y. Vilord

32 “The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.” –Thomas Sowell

33 “A sluggard’s appetite is never filled, but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied.”- Proverbs 13 verse 4

34 “If you believe you can accomplish everything by ‘cramming’ at the eleventh hour, by all means, don’t lift a finger now. But you may think twice about beginning to build your ark once it has already started raining.” –Max Brooks

35 “Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.” –Dale Carnegie

36 “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, carrier a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastination and live on the ‘someday I’ll’ philosophy.” –Denis Waitley

37 “It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.” –Leonardo Da Vinci

38 “He who every morning plans the transactions of that day and follows that plan carriers a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.” –Victor Hugo

39 “There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.” –David Lloyd George

40 “If you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.” –David Allen

41“Great acts are made up of small deeds.” –Lao Tzu

42 “The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.” –Alexandra Graham Bell

43 “He who begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.” –Horace[roman poet]

44 “A primary reason don’t do new things is because they want to do them perfectly-first time. It’s completely irrational, impractical, not workable- and yet, it’s how most people run their lives. It’s called the perfection syndrome.” –Peter Mc Williams and John-Roger

45 “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” –Martin Luther King, Jr.

46 “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.” –Dale Carnegie

47 “Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision.” –Harry A. Hopf

48 “Procrastination is opportunity’s natural assassin.” –Victor Kiam

49 “Begin to weave and God will give you the thread.” –German proverb

50 “Faith in tomorrow, instead of Christ, is Satan’s nurse for man’s perdition.” –George B. Cheever

51 “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.” –Norman Vincent Peale

52 “You can’t get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.” –Jerry West [American basketball player]

53 “If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.” –Olin Miller

54 “Don’t put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.” –James A. Michener

55 “Following-through is the only thing that separates dreamers from people that accomplish great things.” –Gene Hayden

56 “Neither a wise nor brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.” –Dwight D. Eisenhower [34th U. S. President]

57 “To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.” –Sydney Smith

58 “Perhaps the most valuable result of an 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.” –Thomas Huxley

59 “My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.” –Charles Dickens

60 “Those who work on their land will have abundant food, but those who chase fantasies have no sense.” –Proverbs 12 verse 11

61“Don’t wait for someone to take you under their wing. Find a good wing and climb up underneath it.” –Frank C. Bucaro

62 “When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that in itself is a choice.” –William James

63 “Unhappy he who does this work adjourn, and to tomorrow would the search delay: His lazy morrow will be like today. But is one day of ease too much to borrow? Yes, sure: for yesterday was once tomorrow.” –Perseus [Greek hero]

64 “How soon ‘not now’ becomes ‘never’.” –Martin Luther

65 “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” –Napoleon Hill

66 “You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” -Martin Luther King,Jr

67 “You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. What mood is that? Last-minute panic”- Bill Watterson

68 “Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.” - David Allen

69 “Delay not to seize the hour!" -Aeschylus

70 “One who is slack in his work is brother to one who destroys.” -Proverbs 18:9 .

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