Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Whatever can be done another day can be done today.

Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!

People have to decide on priorities if they want to get anywhere. The best lessons I learned was to just do it.

I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right?

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

Delay is not our friend. Delay is our enemy.

All we have is here and now. That's why procrastination feels so right. Procrastination isn't the problem, it's the solution.

When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else - we are the busiest people in the world.

Do not put off today's work until tomorrow, lest work accumulate and you achieve nothing.

You must distinguish between what is urgent and what is important. You could accomplish all of the urgent things that you desire without accomplishing anything that is important.

Don't just put it off and think about it!

If you wait until you feel like doing something, you will likely never accomplish it.

The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important and give in to the urgent.

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

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

A goal or decision without a deadline has no urgency. It has no real beginning or end.

Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.

In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it.

He who puts off nothing till tomorrow has done a great deal.

I don't need time. What I need is a deadline!

Anything I do today, I regard as urgent.

You may delay, but time will not.

There's nothing wrong with procrastination. Or is there? I'll leave it to you to decide, but only if you have the time.