Yes, it’s time for everyone’s favorite subject: procrastination. These quotes may be exactly what you need to rise up one or two levels in your quest for self-development.
1. Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. -Don Marquis
2. The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up. -Author Unknown
3. The two rules of procrastination: 1) Do it today. 2) Tomorrow will be today tomorrow. -Author Unknown
4. You may delay, but time will not. -Benjamin Franklin
5. Procrastination is opportunity’s assassin. -Victor Kiam
6. What may be done at any time will be done at no time. -Scottish Proverb
7. Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. -Mark Twain
8. Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man. -Jimmy Lyons
9. How soon ‘not now’ becomes ‘never’. -Martin Luther
10. I’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness. -Denzel Washington
11. Procrastination is the thief of time. -Edward Young
12. Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder. -Mason Cooley
13. Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy. -Wayne Gretzky
14. If you are not ready today, you will be even less so tomorrow. -Ovid
15. How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time. -Fred Brooks
16. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. -Anne Frank
17. Procrastinators: Leaders of tomorrow. -Unknown Author
18. Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing! -Donald Gardener
19. If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin. -Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
20. Avoid delays: procrastination always does harm. -Lucanus
21. There is, by God’s grace an immeasurable distance between late and too late. -Mad Swetchine
22. We pass our life in deliberation, and we die upon it. -Quesnal
23. How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that everyday may be the last one, and the lost time is lost eternity. -Max Miller
24. 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 state. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool, knows it at forty, and reforms his plan, at fifty chides his infamous delay, pushes his prudent purpose to resolve, in all the magnanimity of thought, resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same. -Young
You know how I suggest that you print some quotes out and post them on your mirror or wall or cubicle? I think some of these (#12 for me) need to be turned into BRASS PLAQUES and attached to our mantle-pieces! Or above our doorways!
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