Delaying Tasks Quotes

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

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.

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

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

You ever find yourself being lazy for no reason at all? Like, you pick up your mail, you go in your house, you realize you have a letter for a neighbor. You ever just look at the letter and go "Hm. Looks like they're never getting this. It'll take too much energy to go back outside. I'm gonna get that to them later on. Right now I gotta watch some 'Love Connection.' They got some new host on there."

The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can put off till the day after tomorrow. Like a variant of the song, Tomorrow, only it's more of the idea, the Mexican idea of mañana, you know, [singing] mañana, mañana, I love you, mañana, you're always a day away.

The longer a soul hath neglected duty, the more ado there is to get it taken up.

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

Lazy people always intend to start doing something.

Leave for tomorrow what you can't do today.

We all know of people who thought they could to it (whatever “it” is) tomorrow. We have all procrastinated on such a way, and often to our personal regret. It happens time and again, putting off things that we convince ourselves might be better, more meaningful, more appropriate for another time. So often that better time either never comes or really isn’t better or more appropriate after all. And then, sadly, the window of opportunity -to do something great- closes.

Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled.

Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.

Procrastination gives you time to consider divergent ideas, to think in nonlinear ways, to make unexpected leaps.

If you are not ready today, you will be even less so tomorrow.

Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.

The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false.

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

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

Procrastination is still the thief of time.

Drug use and procrastination often go hand in tourniquet.

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.

When we put things off until some future-probably mythical-Laterland, we drag the past into the future. The burden of yesterday's incompletions is a heavy load to carry. Don't carry it.

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