For your pleasure and enjoyment, here is a nice selection of famous, funny and poignant quotes about procrastination. Who knows, maybe one of these will strike a cord in you …

  • “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.” - Waitley, Denis
  • “Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.” - Unknown
  • “Procrastination is opportunity’s natural assassin.” - Kiam, Victor
  • “Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.” - Marquis, Don
  • “Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing!” - Gardner, Donald
  • “My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry ’til a more convenient season.” - Lincoln, Mary Todd
  • “Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.” - Dyer, Wayne
  • “If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem… break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.” - Collier, Robert
  • “Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.” - Hill, Napoleon
  • “Procrastination is my sin. It brings me naught but sorrow. I know that I should stop it. In fact, I will–tomorrow!” - Pitzer, Gloria
  • “The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.” - Unknown
  • “I remember reading somewhere about an organization called Procrastinators Anonymous. I think they had been in existence for some years but had never gotten around to having a meeting.” - Unknown
  • “Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.” - Young, Edward
  • “Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.” - Chesterfield, Lord
  • “If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.” - Quincey, Thomas De
  • “Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.” - Cosby, Bill