We often enjoy procrastination until we missed deadlines. Everyone at some level tried to give up the nature of delaying tasks but ended up living the same day again and again. Sometimes we just need the inspiration to beat our nature of procrastination and for this, we come with the 18 best procrastination quotes to get you started.
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Let’s start with some best quotes to beat procrastination.
Procrastination Quotes
1. The only thing that destroys procrastination
At the moment, you just have control over one thing and it is your action. it is only your action that is capable to break the chain of procrastination. Get up and beat the procrastination.
Action will destroy your procrastination.
~Og Mandino
2. Understand the “Power of Now”
The Power of Now define that every minute you spend worrying about the future or regretting the past is a minute lost because what really you have is to live in the present. Take a lesson from the past and do whatever you want to do, do it now.
Never put off for tomorrow what you can do today.
~Thomas Jefferson
3. Your actions determine your success
You will only get whatever you do if you procrastinate your action, it will procrastinate your success. Your success and failure only depend on you.
The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.
~Alexander Graham Bell
4. Work while others are wishing
Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing, and dream while others are wishing.
Begin while others are procrastinating. Work while others are wishing.
~William Arthur Ward
5. Putting work on hold makes it impossible
Procrastination is one of the ways to make an easy-looking task to impossible to do.
Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard one makes it impossible.
~George H. Lorimer
6. Work more talk less
Meeting and planning is important but too much of it just only delay task. Explain or understand necessary things and start your work.
The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.
~ Thomas Sowell
7. One-day deadline will over
A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large.
~Alyce P. Cornyn-Selby
8. Don’t wait for inspiration be an inspiration
Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.
~Stephen King
9. Last-minute also has 60 seconds
I am not a big fan of last-minute work, without a doubt, it saves us many times but it has the capability to break us many times. The better will to finish the things as soon as possible and then sit and relax.
Doing things at the last minute reminds us of the importance of doing things in the first minute.
~Matshona Dhliwayo
10. Procrastination now, pay it later
If you want to achieve anything, you need to work for it. Sooner or later you need to work.
Procrastination is like a credit card: it’s a lot of fun until you get the bill.
~Christopher Parker
11. Rule to avoid procrastination
The simplest rule is to avoid procrastination. 1. Do it Now
The two rules of procrastination: 1) Do it today. 2) Tomorrow will be today tomorrow.
~Unknown
12. Procrastination is a comma in life
Don’t let your procrastination act as the speed breaker of life.
A good procrastination should feel like you’re inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life.
~Ze Frank
13. Procrastinate makes the easy-looking job impossible
If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.
~ Olin Miller
14. You procrastinate but opportunities don’t
“Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.”
~ unknown
15. ‘Not now’ means never
We start with a not now but end with regrets about not doing it.
“How soon ‘not now’ becomes ‘never’.”
~ Martin Luther
16. The right moment is when you get started
Don’t wait for the perfect moment, every moment is perfect when you started.
If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
~ Ivan Turgenev
17. You just have two options, do it or leave it
If you want do it now, if you don’t want pack your beg. Don’t just sit.
When there is a hill to climb, don’t think that waiting will make it smaller.”
~ Unknown
18. Do it today
“One of these days’ is none of these days.”
~ unknown
At the Glance
We hope these procrastination quotes help you to get started. Feel free to share them with your friends. As the old saying goes, “the best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago, but the second-best time is NOW.” Don’t just sit. Do it now.
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