Procrastination; the act of which causes stress at minimum and death (of careers, relationships, health) at its worst.
To follow are 18 quotes that you may want to copy, save and reference…perhaps daily.
“You may delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again.” – Benjamin Franklin
“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.” -Charles Dickens
“It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth; and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.” – Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
“The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.” – Alexander Graham Bell
“Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.” – Napoleon Hill
“Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.” – Spanish Proverb
“When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that in itself is a choice.” – William James
“If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.” – Olin Miller
“Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can’t buy more hours. Scientists can’t invent new minutes. And you can’t save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you’ve wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.” – Denis Waitley
“How soon ‘not now’ becomes ‘never.’” – Martin Luther
“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
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” – Stephen King
“Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the ‘someday I’ll’ philosophy.” – Denis Waitley
“Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.” – William James
“To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.” – Eva Young
“Procrastination is opportunity’s assassin.” – Victor Kiam
“We shall never have more time. We have, and have always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going day in and day out. Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.” ~ Arnold Bennett
And finally…
“A year from now you may wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb
by Kim Peterson, CEO CommonSenseHealth.org
