Top 47 Procrastination Quotes To Be In Action-mode

1. “Begin doing what you want to do now.” ― Marie Beynon Ray

2. “If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem… break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.” ― Robert Collier

3. “In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

4. “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” ― Abraham Lincoln

5. “Start writing now, no matter what, the water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”- Louis L’Amour

6. “A day can really slip by when you’re deliberately avoiding what you’re supposed to do.” ― Bill Watterson

7. “Stop talking. Start walking.” ― L.M. Heroux

8. “If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.” ― Olin Miller

9. “Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday”― Don Marquis

10. “Following-through is the only thing that separates dreamers from people that accomplish great things.” ― Gene Hayden

11. “Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.”– Napoleon Bonaparte

12. “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” ― Napoleon Hill

13. “Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision.” ― Harry A. Hopf

14. “If you wait for things to be perfect, you walk away with NOTHING. Just jump in and get started.” ― Jennifer Ritchie Payette

15. “Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.” ― Alexander Graham Bell

16. “If you put off everything till you’re sure of it, you’ll never get anything done.” ― Norman Vincent Peale

17. “Procrastination is my sin. It brings me naught but sorrow. I know that I should stop it. In fact, I will–tomorrow”― Gloria Pitzer

18. “Get up, get up, what’s taking so long? Get up, Get up, get a move on! Stop stalling.” – Get Up, Shinedown

19. “Procrastination is the thief of time.” ― Edward Young

20. “Procrastination usually results in sorrowful regret. Today’s duties put off until tomorrow give us a double burden to bear; the best way is to do them in their proper time.” ― Ida Scott Taylor

21. “The best way to get something done is to begin.” ― Author Unknown

22. “You actually do not know your true potential unless you are liberated from the Procrasdemon.” ― Neeraj Agnihotri

23. “You may delay, but time will not.” ― Benjamin Franklin

24. “The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.” ― Alexander Graham Bell

25. “Often just by taking action, by doing something about the situation can relieve the stress and help correct the situation.” ― Catherine Pulsifer

26. “Anything is better than doing what I’m supposed to be doing.” ― Maureen Johnson

27. “Begin to weave and God will give you the thread.” ― German Proverb

28. “Procrastination is opportunity’s assassin.” ― Victor Kiam

29. “Delay not to seize the hour!” ― Aeschylus

30. “Your Life Is Happening Right Now: Don’t let procrastination take over your life. Be brave and take risks. Your life is happening right now.” ― Roy T. Bennett

31. “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.” ― Abraham Lincoln

32. “This one makes a net, this one stands and wishes. Would you like to make a bet which one gets the fishes.” ― Chinese Rhyme

33. “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.” ― Lee Iacocca

34. “Continuous learning is the new procrastination.” ― Maciej Aniserowicz

35. “My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.” ― Charles Dickens

36. “To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.” ― Sydney Smith

37. “A year from now you may wish you had started today.” ― Karen Lamb

38. “Someday is not a day of the week.” ― Janet Dailey

39. “Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.” ― Peter Drucker

40. “To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.” ― Eva Young

41. “Following-through is the only thing that separates dreamers from people that accomplish great things”.” ― Gene Hayden

42. “There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.” ― David Lloyd George

43. “Don’t put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.” ― James A. Michener

44. “Stop talking. Start walking.” ― L.M. Heroux

45. “Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.” ― M. Scott Peck

46. “Getting an idea should be like sitting on a pin; it should make you jump up and do something.” ― E.L. Simpson

47. “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.” ~Byron Pulsifer

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