Quotations about Procrastination

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. ~William James


Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. ~Don Marquis


Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday. ~Author Unknown


Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back. ~Charles Kingsley


The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up. ~Author Unknown


If it weren't for the last minute, I wouldn't get anything done. ~Author Unknown


Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment. ~Robert Benchley


There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back. ~Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister


It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. ~Earl of Chesterfield


The two rules of procrastination: 1) Do it today. 2) Tomorrow will be today tomorrow. ~Author Unknown


One of the greatest labor-saving inventions of today is tomorrow. ~Vincent T. Foss


You may delay, but time will not. ~Benjamin Franklin


Someday is not a day of the week. ~Author Unknown


To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing. ~Eva Young


Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. ~C. Northcote Parkinson, 1958


Procrastination is opportunity's assassin. ~Victor Kiam


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


What may be done at any time will be done at no time. ~Scottish Proverb


There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to be done around the house. ~Joe Ryan


Procrastination is something best put off until tomorrow. ~Gerald Vaughan


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. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


The best way to get something done is to begin. ~Author Unknown


You know you are getting old when it takes too much effort to procrastinate. ~Author Unknown


I do my work at the same time each day - the last minute. ~Author Unknown


Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. ~Spanish Proverb


The time to begin most things is ten years ago. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible. ~George Claude Lorimer


Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform. ~Edward Young


Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. ~Mark Twain


Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man. ~Jimmy Lyons


A year from now you may wish you had started today. ~Karen Lamb


Procrastination is like masturbation. At first it feels good, but in the end you're only screwing yourself. ~Author unknown, possibly from Monty Python?


One of these days is none of these days. ~Attributed to both Henri Tubach and H.G. Bohn


Procrastination is the thief of time. ~Edward Young