Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

Most people put off till tomorrow that which they should have done yesterday.

Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely.

Procrastination is something you do yourself. You know: "I gotta sharpen these pencils before I start. I got 20 pencils, they're looking kinda dull." Well, the pencils aren't calling you and alluring you and inviting you and offering you anything. They're just sitting there. You're the one who's procrastinating.

My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much later, or possibly never.

If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.

Procrastinate now, don't put it off.

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

A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds.

Procrastination is the kidnapper of souls and the recruiting-officer of hell.

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.

Do not put your work off till to-morrow and the day after; for a sluggish worker does not fill his barn, nor one who puts off his work: industry makes work go well, but a man who puts off work is always at hand-grips with ruin.

It's the task that's never started that's more tiresome.

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.

The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.

My favorite method of procrastination is to do something else that needs doing, but not quite so imminently. Sleeping is also good, as is drinking until you really can't do anything very well anymore.

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

I've often stopped working for long periods.

Leave for tomorrow what you can't do today.

half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow.

I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating. -Ella Varner

Procrastination has robbed us of too many opportunities.

Every man has something to do which he neglects, every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat.

The time to begin most things is ten years ago.

There's so much writing I could have done and so many ideas that I had and so many things I wanted to work on that I didn't. I like too much having things in my head rather than doing the work.