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.

There is sometimes only a very fine line between deliberation and procrastination.

No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire today.

In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it.

Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled.

Do not say, 'When I have leisure, I will study,' because you may never have leisure.

Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

When it comes to procrastination and overthinking, we have to overcome our self-doubt.

The cost of procrastination is generally far greater than the cost of making mistakes.

My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.

No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.

There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.

Procrastination is One of those Excuses, Born of Fear, that we Use to Keep Ourselves Stuck

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

The momentum of continuous action fuels motivation, while procrastination kills motivation.

The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.

I think a lot of the basis of the open source movement comes from procrastinating students.

Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.

The problem with waiting until tomorrow is that when it finally arrives, it is called today.

Deliberando saepe perit occasio [The opportunity often slips away while we deliberate on it].

Giving up on our long-term goals for immediate gratification, my friends, is procrastination.

Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork.

Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.

My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.

The thing about live TV is that it simply has to be done, there's no space for procrastination.

I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating. -Ella Varner

Who waits until circumstances completely favor his undertaking, will never accomplish anything.

I don't think of it as procrastination. I think of it as allowing my work to accumulate urgency.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.

Winding up unfinished business with another person can give you a great burst of positive energy.

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

One thing that's good about procrastination is that you always have something planned for tomorrow.

Once I finished, I got that procrastination monkey off my back! And I started seeing doors opening.

Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task

I manage my time by prioritizing tasks, working smarter not harder, and by avoiding procrastination.

When you say, "Wait a moment," you are bound by your karma; when you say "Yes I will," you are free.

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

We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.

Most procrastination is largely indecision. Someone has said that "hell is just truth seen too late."

By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there's no more future left for them.

A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.

The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false.

Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.

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