Quotes about Procrastination

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

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'.

Yesterday I went home with him and we did the usual things. I haven't the nerve to put them down, but I'd like to, because now when I'm writing it's already tomorrow and I'm afraid of getting to the end of yesterday. As long as I go on writing, yesterday is today and we are still together

The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.

Life is a game board. Time is your opponent. If you procrastinate, you will lose the game. You must make a move to be victorious.

Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.

He thought a little about the company that he would like to have. No, he thought, when everything you do, you do too long, and do too late, you can't expect to find the people still there. The people all are gone.

But, in yourself, you said that you would write about these people ... and for once it would be written by some one who knew what he was writing of. But he would never do it, because each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.

Good excuses rarely collect dust. We use them, and use them, and use them.

The time you least feel like doing something is the best time to do it.

The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday—but never jam to-day ." "It must come sometimes to 'jam to-day,'" Alice objected. "No, it ca'n't," said the Queen. "It's jam every other day: to-day isn't any other day, you know

Tomorrow is the devil's day, but today is God's. Satan does not care how spiritual your intentions are, or how holy your resolutions, if only they are determined to be done tomorrow.