Robert Benchley Quotes

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

The busiest people I have known in my life always have time enough to do everything. Those who do nothing are always tired and pay no attention to the little amount of work they are required to do. They complain constantly that the day is too short. The truth is, they are afraid to fight the good fight.

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

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.

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

Punctuality is for people with nothing better to do

If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.

What I need is a search engine that, no matter what I type in, comes back with GO BACK TO WORK.

I am sometimes something of a lazy person, so when I end up spending a lot of time using something myself - as I did with Google in the earliest of days, I knew it was a big deal.

I'm still hibernating so I get really frustrated with other people's goals and just stop.

Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.

I said to myself, 'If you don't sit down to it today, when will you ever sit down to it?'

There were times in my life when I had one thing to do all day, but I still couldn’t get to it. “I gotta go to the post office, but I’d probably have to put on pants. And they’re only open till five. Looks like I’m going to have to do that next week.

Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

Idleness breeds our better virtues.

I ask myself, 'why am I so lazy?' and am too lazy to reply.

The word 'when' is so important for a people, for an individual! If an individual thinks he won't do it, he'll never do it. Even if he's highly intelligent, even if he has countless talents.

I go to parties sometimes until four, it's hard to leave when you can't find the door.

It is quite rare to find people who are really dedicated to a level of excellence. Most of us are really quite lazy most of the time.

The people on this planet who end up doing nothing are those who never realized they couldn't do everything.

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

A man was desired to rise from bed because the sun was already up. He replied: "If I had as far to go and as much to do as he has, I should be up by now; but having but a little way to go, I shall not get up yet."

I've always wanted to take self-defense classes and I never did, for whatever reason. I don't know why. I don't know if it was fear or time, or whatever stops people from doing things that they want to do.

There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps.

Take massive action. So many people wait until they have all the answers.