Procrastination is the avoidance of doing a task that needs to be accomplished by a certain deadline. It could be further stated as a habitual or intentional delay of starting or finishing a task despite knowing it might have negative consequences. It is a common human experience involving delay in everyday chores or even putting off salient tasks such as attending an appointment, submitting a job report or academic assignment, or broaching a stressful issue with a partner. Although typically perceived as a negative trait due to its hindering effect on one’s productivity often associated with depression, low self-esteem, guilt and inadequacy; it can also be considered a wise response to certain demands that could present risky or negative outcomes or require waiting for new information to arrive. May these Procrastination Quotes On Success inspire you to take action so that you may live your dreams.
1. “Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision.” Harry A. Hopf
2. “Don’t put off until tomorrow what can be done today. Procrastination is a sign of weak character.” Carol Cox
3. “We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.” Erica Jong
4. “A year from now you may wish you had started today.” Karen Lamb
5. “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.” Abraham Lincoln
6. “Don’t postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson.” John Updike
7. “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
8. “Procrastination is opportunity’s natural assassin.” Victor Kiam
9. “To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.” Eva Young
10. “I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.” Baltasar Graci
11. “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” Napoleon Hill
12. “Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.” Napoleon Bonaparte
13. “Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand—and melting like a snowflake.” Francis Bacon
14. “If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.” Robert Collier
15. “The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.” Alexander Graham Bell
16. “The best way to get something done is to begin.” Unknown
17. “Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.” Henry Huxley
18. “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
19. “Stop talking. Start walking.” L.M. Heroux
20. “In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” Theodore Roosevelt
21. “You can’t get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.” Jerry West
22. “Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.” Nassim N. Taleb
23. “Procrastinating does nothing more than add to your do list. Do it, be done with it!” Catherine Pulsifer
24. “Procrastination is the lazy cousin of fear. When we feel anxiety around an activity, we postpone it.” Noelle Hancock
25. “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.” Seneca
26. “Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the “someday I’ll” philosophy.” Denis Waitley
27. “Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.” M. Scott Peck
28. “Don’t let procrastination take over your life. Be brave and take risks. Your life is happening right now.” Roy Bennett
29. “If you have goals and procrastination you have nothing. If you have goals and you take action, you will have anything you want.” Thomas J. Vilord
30. “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” Anne Frank
31. “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.” Abraham Lincoln
32. “The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They’re full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too.” Norman Vincent Peale
33. “Procrastination usually results in sorrowful regret. Today’s duties put off until tomorrow give us a double burden to bear; the best way is to do them in their proper time.” Ida Scott Taylor
34. “Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in installments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day’s success.” Israelmore Ayivor
35. “You may delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again.” Benjamin Franklin
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