Procrastination

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  • God has promised forgiveness to your repentance; but He has not promised to-morrow to your procrastination.
    • Augustine of Hippo, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 486.

  • Faith in to-morrow instead of Christ, is Satan's nurse for man's perdition.
    • George B. Cheever, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 486.

  • Do you want to learn holiness with terrible struggles and sore affliction and the plague of much remaining evil? Then wait before you turn to God.
    • Frederick William Robertson, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 486.

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  • "Procrastination is the thief of time." -- Edward Young
  • "If it weren't for the last minute, I wouldn't get anything done." -- Anon
  • "I think a lot of the basis of the open source movement comes from procrastinating students..." -- Andrew Tridgell (Article)
  • "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." -- Douglas Adams
  • "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." -- Robert Anthony
  • "We don't have anything as urgent as mañana in Ireland." -- Stuart Banks
  • "A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large." -- Alyce P. Cornyn-Selby
  • "Procrastination: Hard work often pays off after time, but laziness always pays off now." -- Larry Kersten
  • "Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the moment." -- Robert Benchley
  • "Procrastination is the art of waiting." -- Procrastination help
  • "Procrastination is like masturbation, It's fun until you realize you just screwed yourself"--Anonymous
  • "Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday." -- Author Unknown
  • "Procrastinate now, don't put it off." -- Ellen DeGeneres
  • "Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday." -- Don Marquis
  • "Procrastination is my sin. It brings me naught but sorrow. I know that I should stop it. In fact, I will--tomorrow!" -- Gloria Pitzer
  • "Procrastination will kill us all if it ever gets around to it." -- Anon
  • "Time you enjoy wasting isn't wasted time." -- Bertrand Russell
  • "Procrastination is the key to flexibility" -- Anon
  • Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out. ~ Italian Proverb
  • One of these days is none of these days. ~ English
  • "Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today." -- Mark Twain
  • "Procrastination is reading all the quotes on this page when you have a huge report due tomorrow." -- R.T.A.Birektt
  • "Telling someone who procrastinates to buy a weekly planner is like telling someone with chronic depression to just cheer up." -- Joseph Ferrari
  • "Faith in to-morrow, instead of Christ, is Satan's nurse for man's perdition." -- Rev. Dr. Cheever
  • "To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed." -- Tillotson
  • 'By the streets of "By and By" one arrives at the house of "Never."' -- Miguel de Cervantes
  • "By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there's no more future left for them." -- L'Estrange
  • "For Yesterday was once To-morrow." -- Persius
  • "Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day" -- Franklin
  • "Procrastination is the sucubus of a busy man" -- A Busy Man
  • "Indulge in procrastination, and in time you will come to this, that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can't do it." -- Charles Buxton
 
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