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