Top 100 Procrastination Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Action will destroy your procrastination.”

— Og Mandino

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

— Charles Dickens

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3. “Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.”

— Mason Cooley

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4. “Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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5. “Don’t let your want for perfection become procrastination.”

— Danielle LaPorte

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6. “The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

7. “Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.”

— Chinua Achebe

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8. “The problem with tomorrow is that I have never seen a tomorrow. Tomorrow does not exist. Tomorrow only exists in the mind of dreamers and losers.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

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

— Steve Pavlina

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10. “Pay now, play later; play now, pay later.”

— John C. Maxwell

11. “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

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12. “Procrastination is opportunity’s assassin.”

— Victor Kiam

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13. “The best cure for procrastination is to have so much on your plate that procrastination is no longer an option.”

— Tavi Gevinson

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14. “The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started.”

— Dawson Trotman

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15. “Clear, written goals have a wonderful effect on your thinking. They motivate you and galvanize you into action. They stimulate your creativity, release your energy, and help you to overcome procrastination as much as any other factor.”

— Brian Tracy

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16. “The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.”

— Muhammad Ali

17. “Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task.”

— William James

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18. “Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear.”

— Julia Cameron

19. “Addiction, self-sabotage, procrastination, laziness, rage, chronic fatigue, and depression are all ways that we withhold our full participation in the program of life we are offered. When the conscious mind cannot find a reason to say no, the unconscious says no in its own way.”

— Charles Eisenstein

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20. “Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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21. “Sometimes there is no next time, no second chance, or no time out. Stop waiting. It’s now or never. When you wait, you aren’t procrastinating. You are doing something more dangerous. You are deliberately convincing yourself “now is not the time.” You are actively working against your dreams.”

— Mel Robbins

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22. “You may delay, but time will not.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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23. “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”

— Douglas Adams

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24. “Do it. Do it right. Do it right now.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

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25. “People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”

— A. A. Milne

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26. “Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.”

— Charles Dickens

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27. “When you face a problem, solve it then and there if you have the facts necessary to make a decision. Don’t keep putting off decisions.”

— Dale Carnegie

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28. “It’s only too late if you don’t start now.”

— Barbara Sher

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29. “Every positive change in your life begins with a clear, unequivocaldecision that you are going to either do something or stop doing something.”

— Brian Tracy

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30. “Never wait for tomorrow, what if tomorrow never comes?”

— Elvis Presley

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

— Edward Young

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

— Alan Cohen

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33. “You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.”

— Brian Tracy

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34. “Follow up and follow through until the task is completed, the prize won.”

— Brian Tracy

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35. “The treasure you seek is in the work you’re avoiding.”

— Jim Kwik

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36. “It’s the start that stops most people.”

— Don Shula

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37. “One today is worth two tomorrows.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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38. “Your time is too valuable, your destiny is too great, and your future is too bright to waste a single moment. Be a now person.”

— Joel Osteen

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39. “NO MORE. No more excuses. No more: “I’ll start tomorrow.” No more: “Just this once.” No more accepting the shortfalls of my own will. No more taking the easy road. No more bowing down to whatever unhealthy or unproductive thoughts float through my mind.”

— Jocko Willink

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40. “Don’t prepare. Begin. Our enemy is not lack of preparation. The enemy is resistance, our chattering brain producing excuses. Start before you are ready.”

— Steven Pressfield

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41. “Time goes on. So whatever you’re going to do, do it. Do it now. Don’t wait.”

— Robert De Niro

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42. “Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.”

— Steven Pressfield

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43. “Do not put off today’s work until tomorrow, lest work accumulate and you achieve nothing.”

— Umar

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44. “Soon is not as good as now.”

— Seth Godin

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45. “I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.”

— Og Mandino

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46. “Kill time and you will kill your career.”

— B.C. Forbes

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47. “After all, tomorrow is another day.”

— Margaret Mitchell

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48. “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”

— Mark Twain

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49. “If we wait until we’ve satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.”

— Lee Iacocca

50. “The scholar’s greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.”

— Stephen King