Top 100 Procrastination Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “He who puts off nothing till tomorrow has done a great deal.”

— Baltasar Gracián

52. “Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

53. “Procrastination is another form of resistance.”

— Louise Hay

54. “God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.”

— Saint Augustine

55. “Procrastinate now, don’t put it off.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

56. “Procrastination is a sign of a perfectionist.”

— Patrick J. Kennedy

57. “So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don’t sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we’ve satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.”

— Lee Iacocca

58. “The assumption of time is one of humanity’s greatest follies. We tell ourselves that there’s always tomorrow, when we can no more predict tomorrow than we can the weather. Procrastination is the thief of dreams.”

— Richard Paul Evans

59. “Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible.”

— Robert H. Schuller

60. “One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we’re idling in front of our computer screens.”

— Joshua Foer

61. “If you ask me, reincarnation is just another way to procrastinate.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

62. “If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.”

— Henrik Ibsen

63. “At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.”

— Edward Young

64. “The old saying that “success breeds success” has something to it. It’s that feeling of confidence that can banish negativity and procrastination and get you going the right way.”

— Donald Trump

65. “Procrastination is hardly more evil than grasping impatience.”

— Immanuel Kant

66. “The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic, self-loathing, and soul-crushing inadequacy. And that’s on a good day.”

— Robert De Niro

67. “Procrastination is not the problem. It is the solution. Procrastinate now, don’t put it off.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

68. “Procrastination is the longest word in the language, but there’s only one letter between its ends when they occupy their proper places in the alphabet.”

— George Horace Lorimer

69. “The trouble is, you think you have time.”

— Buddha

70. “Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.”

— Paulo Coelho

71. “The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”

— Mark Twain

72. “A year from now you may wish you had started today.”

— Karen Lamb

73. “Procrastination is like a credit card: it’s a lot of fun until you get the bill.”

— Christopher Parker

74. “The cost of procrastination is generally far greater than the cost of making mistakes.”

— Robert Ringer

75. “The best way to deal with procrastination is to postpone it.”

— Tony Robbins

76. “Giving up on our long-term goals for immediate gratification, my friends, is procrastination.”

— Dan Ariely

77. “Procrastination is, hands down, our favorite form of self-sabotage.”

— Alyce P. Cornyn-Selby

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

— Frank Sonnenberg

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

— Janet Dailey

80. “TALK LESS. DO MORE.”

— QuoteFancy Wallpaper

81. “Stop putting it off! Procrastination breeds guilt, guilt breeds depression, and depression breeds failure.”

— Barbara Corcoran

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

— Matthew Burton

83. “Procrastination is the thief of time.”

— Edward Young

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

— Steven Barnes

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

— Noel Jones

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Todd Stocker

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

— David Allen

89. “If not now, when?”

— Eckhart Tolle

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

— Benjamin Franklin

91. “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

92. “Perfectionism is the mother of procrastination.”

— Michael Hyatt

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

— Wayne Gretzky

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

— Mel Robbins

95. “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

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

— Chuck Close

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

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

98. “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

99. “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

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

— Don Marquis