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He who begins and does not finish loves their pains.
-Proverb
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We hate delays by others, but sometimes it makes us wise.
-Proverb
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One of these days, is none of these days.
-Proverb
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Begin to weave and God will give the thread.
-Proverb
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Never put off today what you can put off tomorrow.
-Proverb
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Manana is often the busiest day of the week.
-Proverb
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A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
-Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalberg) Acton
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Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don't count.
-Dr. Robert Anthony
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If you wait until the wind and the weather are just right, you will never plant anything and never harvest anything.
-Bible
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Elijah went before the people and said, How long will you waver between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him. But the people said nothing. 1 Kings 18:21
-Bible
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Don't put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today.
-Josh Billings
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He who hesitates is probably right.
-Bogovich
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The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
-Jorge Luis Borges
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Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Festination may prove Precipitation;
Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
-Sir Thomas Browne
Christian Morals (paraphrasing Caesar)
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Don't wait for someone to take you under their wing. Find a good wing and climb up underneath it.
-Frank C. Bucaro
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Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.
-Aaron Burr
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In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-Samuel Butler
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Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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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
The Favourite Game (McClelland & Stewart, p.93-94), 1963
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If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem... break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.
-Robert Collier
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When a man does a household job, he goes through three periods: contemplating how it will be done; contemplating when it will be done; and contemplating.
-Marcelene Cox
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Who has never killed an hour? Not casually or without thought, but carefully: a premeditated murder of minutes. The violence comes from a combination of giving up, not caring, and a resignation that getting past it is all you can hope to accomplish. So you kill the hour. You do not work, you do not read, you do not daydream. If you sleep it is not because you need to sleep. And when at last it is over, there is no evidence: no weapon, no blood, and no body. The only clue might be the shadows beneath your eyes or a terribly thin line near the corner of your mouth indicating something has been suffered, that in the privacy of your life you have lost something and loss is too empty to share...
-Mark Z. Danielewski
House of Leaves
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The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
-W. Edwards Deming
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
-Wayne Dyer
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Books about Procrastination
