Procrastination

Procrastination

Life, as it is called,

is for most of us one long postponement.

-Henry Miller

Put off for one day

and ten days will pass.

-Korean Proverb

 

Procrastination is the onset

of the deteriorization of the will.

-Kenneth G. Mills

 

Procrastination is the habit 

of putting off our own good.

-J. Sig Paulson

Preparing to live your dream is postponing it.
You are either living it, or not.
Quit planning your dream and start living it.
-Alan Cohen

 

Procrastination is the art

of keeping up with yesterday.

-Don Marquis

 

What is not started today

is never finished tomorrow.

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

Procrastination is the bad habit

of putting off until the day after tomorrow

what should have been done the day before yesterday.

-Napoloeon Hill

 

If only I had done today

what I set out for yesterday

I'd be free tomorrow.

-Andy Munthe

 

Procrastination makes easy things hard,

hard things harder.

-Mason Cooley

 

Nothing is so fatiguing

as the eternal hanging on

of an uncompleted task.

-William James

 

When you step on the brakes

your life is in your foot's hands.

-George Carlin

 

Someday

is not a day of the week.

-Anonymous

 

The word tomorrow was invented

for indecisive people and for children.

-Ivan Turgenev

 

Tomorrow is the day

when idlers work,

and fools reform.

-Edward Young

You are fooled by your mind
into believing there is tomorrow
so that you may waste today.
-Ishin Yoshimoto

If you won't be better tomorrow
than you were today,
then what do you need tomorrow for?
-Rabbi Nachman of Breslov

 

There are those of us who are always about to live.

We are waiting until things change, until there is more time,

until we are less tired, until we get a promotion,

until we settle down - until, until, until.

It always seems as if there is some major event

that must occur in our lives before we begin living.

-George Sheehan

Tomorrow I will live, the fool does say:

today itself's too late; the wise lived yesterday.

 -Marcus Valerius Martial

 

You may delay,

but time will not.

-Benjamin Franklin

 

While we are postponing,

life speeds by.

-Lucius Annaeus Seneca

 

Procrastination is the thief of time:

Year after year it steals, till all are fled.

-Edward Young

 

Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.

-Charles Dickens

Your postponement of deeds
till the time when you are free
is one of the frivolities of the ego.
-Ibn 'Ata'illah

 

One's duty is to do now what can be done now.

Nothing one really values should one put off till tomorrow.

-Hazrat Inayat Khan

 

The future is a result

of your procrastination.

-Kenneth G. Mills

 

Only put off  until tomorrow

what you are willing to die leaving undone.

-Unknown

 

Be wise today;

'tis madness to defer.

-Edward Young

The tragedy of life is not that is ends so soon,

but that we wait so long to begin it.

-W. M Lewis

The trouble is...you think you have time.
-Jack Kornfield

 

If not today, when?

-Kashmiri Proverb