Mae West
"He who hesitates is last."
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Author Unknown
"If and When were planted, and Nothing grew."
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Martin Luther King Jr.
"How soon ‘not now’ become ‘never’.”
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Napoleon Hill
"Don’t wait. The time will never be just right".
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Author Unknown
"Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried."
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Dawson Trotman
"The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started."
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Will Rogers
"Even if you’re on the right track-you’ll get run over if you just sit there."
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Christopher Parker
"Procrastination is like a credit card: it’s a lot fun until you get the bill."
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Sally Berger
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."
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Author Unknown
"When there is a hill to climb, don’t think that waiting will make it smaller."
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Author Unknown
"Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan."
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Randal Wright
“Life is a race. If you delay starting, how can you have any hope of winning?”
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William Arthur Ward
"Begin while other are procrastinating. Work while others are wishing."
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Abraham Lincoln
"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."
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Dale Carnegie
"Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves."
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William James
"When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice."
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Matthew Burton
"Procrastination is the seed of self destruction."
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Martin Luther King Jr.
"You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
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Syrus
"The next day is never so good as the day before."
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C. Northcote Parkinson
"Delay is the deadliest form of denial."
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Fred Brooks
"How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time."
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Edward Young
"Time wasted is existence; used is life."
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Walt Disney
"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."
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Christopher Parke
“Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.”
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Marvin J. Ashton
“Procrastination is a deadly weapon of human progress.”
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Spencer W. Kimball
“Procrastination—thou wretched thief of time and opportunity!”
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Proverbs 19:15
“Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.”
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Psalms 119:60
“I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.”
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William James
“Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.”
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Don Marquis
“Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.”
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Charles Kingsley
“Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.”
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Vincent T. Foss
“One of the greatest labor-saving inventions of today is tomorrow.”
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Benjamin Franklin
“You may delay, but time will not.”
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Author Unknown
“Someday is not a day of the week.”
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Eva Young
“To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.”
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C. Northcote Parkinson
“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”
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Victor Kiam
“Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.”
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Olin Miller
“If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.”
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Scottish Proverb
“What may be done at any time will be done at no time.”
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Gerald Vaughan
“Procrastination is something best put off until tomorrow.”
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Spanish Proverb
“Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.”
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Edward Young
“Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.”
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Jimmy Lyons
“Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man.”
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Karen Lamb
“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
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H.G. Bohn
“One of these days is none of these days.”
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Edward Young
“Procrastination is the thief of time.”
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Vincent T. Foss
"One of the greatest labor-saving inventions of today is tomorrow."
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Benjamin Franklin
"You may delay, but time will not."
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Donald Gardner
"Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing!"
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Jerry West
"You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good."
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Jean de La Bruyère
"Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity."
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Rita Emmett
"The dread of doing a task uses up more time and energy than doing the task itself."
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Benjamin Franklin
"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of."
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Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister
“There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.”
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Earl of Chesterfield
“It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.”
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George Claude Lorimer
“Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.”
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Author Unkown
“Why is it that we think of doing nothing as the good life when in reality it doesn’t get any worse than that.”
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Spencer W. Kimball
“One of the most serious human defects in all ages is procrastination, an unwillingness to accept personal responsibilities now.”
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Sterling W. Sill
“One of greatest thieves this world has is procrastination, and he is still at large. Are we aiding and abetting the criminal?”
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Neal A Maxwell
"Joshua didn't say choose you next year whom you will serve; he spoke of "this day," while there is still daylight and before the darkness becomes more and more normal."
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Reed Smoot
"There is nothing that steals man's time, his talents, his vigor, his energy…in greater degree than the crime of procrastination."
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Author Unknown
“Procrastination is a silly thing, it only makes me sorrow; but I can change at any time—I think I will tomorrow!”
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Irene Kassorla
"Don't wait for your ‘ship to come in,’ and feel angry and cheated when it doesn't. Get going with something small."
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David Allen
"Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started."
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Omar Bradley
“We are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live."
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Matthew 4: 19-20
“And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. And they straightway left their nets, and followed him.”
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Anne Frank
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
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Pearl S. Buck
"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."
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Robert Benchley
“Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.”
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Mignon McLaughlin
"Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all."
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Charles Buxton
"Indulge in procrastination, and in time yon will come to this, that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can't do it."
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Napoleon Hill
"Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday."
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Wayne Dyer
"Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy."
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Horace
"He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses."
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Catherine Pulsifer
"Often just by taking action, by doing something about the situation can relieve the stress and help correct the situation."
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Mignon McLaughlin
"There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today."
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Theodore Roosevelt
"In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do. The worst thing you can do is nothing."
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Byron Pulsifer
“Doing just a little bit during the time we have available puts you that much further ahead than if you took no action at all."
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Robert Anthony
"Waiting is a trap. There will always be reason to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don’t count."
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Sterling W. Sill
“Most procrastination is largely indecision. Someone has said that "hell is just truth seen too late."
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Marvin J. Ashton
“How comfortable some of us become as we nestle in the web of procrastination. It is a false haven of rest for those who are content to live without purpose, commitment, or self-discipline.”
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Mark 13:35-36
“Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.”
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Benjamin Franklin
"Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today."
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William A. Alcott
"Every thing in human character goes to wreck, under the reign of procrastination, while prompt action gives to all things a corresponding and proportional life and energy."
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Ida Scott Taylor
"Procrastination usually results in sorrowful regret. Today’s duties put off tomorrow give us a double burden to bear; the best way is to do them in their proper time."
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William Nevins
"Procrastination has been called a thief,--the thief of time. I wish it were no worse than a thief. It is a murderer; and that which it kills is not time merely, but the immortal soul."
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Og Mandino
" To be always intending to make a new and better life but never find time to set about it is as…to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to next until you’re dead."
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Lord Chesterfield
"Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today."
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Spencer W. Kimball
“In my office…I have a little sign and it says, ‘Do it!’ I suppose if I have learned anything in life, it is that we are to keep moving, keep trying-as long as we breathe! If we do, we will be surprised at how much more can still be done.”
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Author Unknown
"Don’t procrastination. Putting off an unpleasant task until tomorrow simply give you more time for your imagination to make a mountain out a possible molehill. More time for anxiety to sap your self-confidence. Do it now, brother, do it now."
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Norman Vincent Peale
"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."
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Dale Carnegie
"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon – instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today."
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Lee Iacocca
"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."
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Arnold Bennett
“We shall never have more time. We have, and have always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going day in and day out. Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.”
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Joseph B. Wirthlin
“Peace is more than a lofty ideal. It is a practical principle that, with conscious effort, can become a normal part of our lives as we deal with matters both large and small. One habit that prevents inner peace is procrastination. It clutters our minds with unfinished business and makes us uneasy until we finish a task and get it out of the way.”
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Russell M. Nelson
“Unfinished business is our worst business. Perpetual procrastination must yield to perceptive preparation. Today we have a little more time to bless others—time to be kinder, more compassionate, quicker to thank and slower to scold, more generous in sharing, more gracious in caring.”
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Denis Waitley
"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."
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Richard O'Conner
"Procrastination is a way for us to be satisfied with second-rate results; we can always tell ourselves we'd have done a better job if only we'd had more time. If you're good at rationalizing, you can keep yourself feeling rather satisfied this way, but it's a cheap happy. You're whittling your expectations of yourself down lower and lower."
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Joshua 24:15
“And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”
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Thomas S. Monson
“Two centuries ago Edward Young said that procrastination is the thief of time. Actually, procrastination is much more. It is the thief of our self-respect. It nags at us and spoils our fun. It deprives us of the fullest realization of our ambitions and hopes. Knowing this, each of us jars himself back to reality with the sure knowledge that, "This is my day of opportunity. I will not waste it."
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Marvin J. Ashton
“Straightway is a power word. Straightway is an action word. It means immediately, without delay or hesitation. It means at once. Also, it is associated with having no curve or turn—a straight course, track, or path. Procrastination would be the very opposite of straightway. To procrastinate is to put off intentionally and habitually something that should be done. Procrastination is unproductive delay.”
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William H. Bennett
“Inertia can work against us or for us depending on our starting point and our attitude. It works against us if we are at rest and are content to remain that way rather than getting into action. Procrastination, which is the practice of putting off, intentionally and habitually, those things that should be done in a timely manner, not only wastes time; but it leaves our lives empty, unfulfilled, and unhappy. Inertia works for us if we are in action and are moving forward and upward in meaningful ways toward all-important goals based on a clear understanding of who we are, where we came from, why we are here, and where we are going.”
