Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Procrastination

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841–1935) American Jurist, Author

He lay beside her, an insomniac with visions of vastness. He thought of desert stretches so huge no Chosen People could cross them. He counted grains of sand like sheep and knew his job would last forever. He thought of aeroplane views of wheatlands so high he couldn’t see which way the wind was bending the stalks. Arctic territories and sled-track distances.Miles he would never cover because he could never abandon this bed.
Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian Singer, Songwriter, Poet, Novelist

I myself must mix with action lest I wither by despair.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–92) British Poet

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Don Marquis (1878–1937) American Humorist, Journalist, Author

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.
C. Northcote Parkinson (1909–93) British Historian, Scholar, Novelist, Satirist

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Baltasar Gracian (1601–58) Spanish Scholar, Prose Writer

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94) Scottish Novelist

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.
Charles Dickens (1812–70) English Novelist

As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come.
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American Author, Journalist, Short Story Writer

He who prorogues the honesty of today till tomorrow, will probably prorogue his tomorrows to eternity.
Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741–1801) Swiss Theologian, Poet

There is, by God’s grace, an immeasurable distance between late and too late.
Sophie Swetchine (1782–1857) Russian Mystic, Writer

Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.
John Updike (1932–2009) American Novelist, Poet, Short-Story Writer

But is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the buts that could be said.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803–73) British Novelist, Poet, Politician

A lobster, when left high and dry among the rock, does not have the sense enough to work his way back to the sea, but waits for the sea to come to him. If it does not come, he remains where he is and dies, although the slightest effort would enable him to reach the waves, which are perhaps within a yard of him. The world is full of human lobsters; people stranded on the rocks of indecision and procrastination, who, instead of putting forth their own energies, are waiting for some grand billow of good fortune to set them afloat.
Orison Swett Marden (1850–1924) American New Thought Writer, Physician, Entrepreneur

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.
Scottish Proverb

Talking is easy, action difficult.
Spanish Proverb

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
James Anthony Froude (1818–94) British Historian, Novelist, Biographer, Editor

How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity!
Max Muller (1823–1900) German-Born British Philologist, Orientalist

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Chinese Proverb

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American Self-Help Author

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must needs do something.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) American Feminist, Writer

The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American Writer, Publisher, Artist, Philosopher

In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it.
Charles Baudelaire (1821–67) French Poet, Art Critic, Essayist, Translator

The best labor saving device is doing it tomorrow
Unknown

Tear thyself from delay.
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65–8 BCE) Roman Poet

The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.
Florynce Kennedy (1916–2000) American Lawyer, Civil Rights Leader, Feminist, Activist

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank (1929–45) Holocaust Victim

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
Herbert Hoover (1874–1964) 31st American President

How soon ‘not now’ becomes ‘never’.
Martin Luther (1483–1546) German Protestant Theologian

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.
Stanley Kubrick (1928–99) American Film Director, Writer, Film Producer, Photographer

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