Top 70 Procrastination Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Stop putting it off! Procrastination breeds guilt, guilt breeds depression, and depression breeds failure.”

— Barbara Corcoran

52. “TALK LESS. DO MORE.”

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53. “Procrastination is the enemy of time and results in lost opportunity.”

— Noel Jones

54. “Procrastination is the seed of self destruction.”

— Matthew Burton

55. “Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.”

— Napoleon Hill

56. “Procrastination is the thief of time.”

— Edward Young

57. “Procrastination causes pressure that zaps creativity and excellence.”

— Todd Stocker

58. “If you don’t start, you’ll never finish.”

— Frank Sonnenberg

59. “Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.”

— David Allen

60. “If not now, when?”

— Eckhart Tolle

61. “Someday is not a day of the week.”

— Janet Dailey

62. “Never leave till tomorrow that which you can do today.”

— Benjamin Franklin

63. “Perfectionism is procrastination masquerading as quality control.”

— Steven Barnes

64. “Perfectionism is the mother of procrastination.”

— Michael Hyatt

65. “Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.”

— Wayne Gretzky

66. “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

67. “Procrastination is not a form of laziness at all. It’s a coping mechanism for stress.”

— Mel Robbins

68. “Life won’t stop for your pauses and procrastinations. It won’t stop for your confusion or fear. It will continue right along without you. Whether you play an active part or not, the show will go on.”

— Gary John Bishop

69. “Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work.”

— Chuck Close

70. “Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

71. “The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don’t just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed.”

— Steven Pressfield

72. “Procrastination is illogical from every viewpoint. It is like the man who wanted to cross the stream, so he sat on the bank to wait for all the water to run by.”

— Vernon Howard

73. “Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.”

— Don Marquis