“There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.”
“Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing!”
“Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.”
“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
“If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.”
“If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.”
“Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.”
“My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.”
“Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard one makes it impossible.”
“Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.”
“Don't wait for someone to take you under their wing. Find a good wing and climb up underneath it.”
“... if we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
“A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.”
“Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.”
“The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.”
“Procrastination is my sin. It brings me naught but sorrow. I know that I should stop it. In fact, I will--tomorrow!”
“Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.”
“Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.”
“No age or time of life, no position or circumstance, has a monopoly on success. Any age is the right age to start doing!”
“If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem... break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.”
“Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.”
“If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can everything.”
“When a man does a household job, he goes through three periods: contemplating how it will be done; contemplating when it will be done; and contemplating.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.”
“To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.”
“The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.”
“When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish-it is then that you must not hesitate.”
“Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph.”