Quotations similar to PROCRASTINATION - MOTIVATION, ACTION
Also see MOTIVATION AFFIRMATIONS
Compiled by Che Garman
A procrastinator's work is never done. - Unknown
A year from now you may wish you had started today. - Unknown
All glory comes from daring to begin. - Eugene F Ware
Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment. - Robert Benchley
Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do. – Liz Smith
Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out. - Italian Proverb
Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing. - William Feather
Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live. - Marcus Aurelius
Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect. - Alan Cohen
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
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
Don't wait. The time will never be just right. - Napoleon Hill
Every time we say 'I must do something' it takes an incredible amount of energy. Far more than physically doing it. - Gita Bellin
Forget yourself and start to work. - Gordon B Hinckley
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. - Benjamin Franklin
How soon 'not now' becomes never. - Martin Luther
If and When were planted, and Nothing grew. - Proverb
If it weren't for the last minute, I wouldn't get anything done. - Unknown
If we don't start, it's certain we can't arrive. – Zig Ziglar
If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything, is ready, we shall never begin. - Ivan Turgenov
If you are not ready today, you will be even less so tomorrow. - Ovid
If you can not do it today what makes you think you will do it tomorrow? - Yusuf Tura
If you see a bandwagon, it's too late. - Sir James Goldsmith
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done. - Bruce Lee
If you wait, all that happens is that you get older. - Larry McMurtry
If you want to be a writer, stop talking about it and sit down and write. - Jackie Collins
If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it. - Olin Miller
It is far better to do it now, than stress about it later. - Che Garman
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. - Jules Renard
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. - Anne Frank
Many fine things can be done in a day if you don't always make that day tomorrow. - Unknown
Much unhappiness has come into this world because of things left unsaid. - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. - Benjamin Franklin
Nothing is more burdensome than an unfinished task. - Jim Rohn
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. - William James
One of these days is none of these days. - Henri Tubach
One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is worth half-a-hundred half-finished tasks. - Malcolm S. Forbes
Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them. - Jawaharlal Nehru
Pay now, play later; play now, pay later. - John Maxwell
People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. - Denis Waitley
Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill. - Christopher Parker
Procrastination is opportunity’s assassin. - Victor Kiam
Procrastination is something best put off until tomorrow. - Gerald Vaughan
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. - Don Marquis
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday. - Napoleon Hill
Procrastination is the cornerstone of all poverty. - Larry Zimberg
Procrastination is the thief of time. - Edward Young
Procrastinators: the leaders of tomorrow. - Unknown
Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible. - George Claude Lorimer
Someday is not a day of the week. - Unknown
Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both. - John Andrew Holmes
Stop stewing and start doing! – Denis Waitley
The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best is now. - Chinese Proverb
The best way to get something done is to begin. - Unknown
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. - Harriet Beecher Stowe
The greatest thief this world ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large. - Henry Wheeler
The most effective way to do it, is to do it. – Amelia Earhart
The start is what stops most people. - Don Shula
The time to begin most things is ten years ago. - Mignon McLaughlin
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. - Walt Disney
There are many wonderful things that will never be done if you do not do them. – Charles D. Gill
There are only two times in your life: NOW and TOO LATE! - Terry Hawkins
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today. - Mignon McLaughlin
There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks. - David Lloyd George
To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing. - Eva Young
Today is the tomorrow that you worried about yesterday. - Unknown
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. - Spanish Proverb
Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man. - Jimmy Lyons
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow. - Goethe
What may be done at any time will be done at no time. - Scottish Proverb
While we are postponing, life speeds by. - Seneca
Winding up unfinished business with another person can give you a great burst of positive energy. – Brian Tracy
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. - Abraham Lincoln
You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind. - Unknown
You don’t need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating. - Barbara Sher
You know you are getting old when it takes too much effort to procrastinate. - Unknown
You may delay, but time will not. - Benjamin Franklin
You will never win if you never begin. - Robert H Schuller
Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow. - Robert Kiyosaki
