74 Short Procrastination Quotes to Kickstart Your Motivation

We’ve all been there putting things off until the last minute.

We’ve rounded up the best procrastination quotes for your next post to give you a little laugh or a dose of motivation.

And if you’re looking for relatable sayings about delaying but still getting it done, we also have you covered.

Now go ahead and browse through to find your favorite.

Our Favorite Procrastination Quotes

“We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.” — Erica Jong

“Busy not yourself in looking forward to the events of to-morrow; but whatever may be those of the days Providence may yet assign you neglect not to turn them to advantage.” — Horace

“Procrastination is like a credit card; it’s a lot fun until you get the bill.” — Christopher Parker

“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.” — Sydney Harris

“Stop procrastinating, stop feeling guilty and just do it!” — Bastiaan Blikman

“Procrastinating does nothing more than add to your do list. Do it, be done with it!” — Catherine Pulsifer

“Procrastination can guard against making the wrong choice too soon. Or it could just be mental laziness.” — Pepper Hume

“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 is something best put off until tomorrow.” — Gerald Vaughan

“I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.” — Baltasar Graci

“Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.” — William James

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” — Anne Frank

“Don’t put off until tomorrow what can be done today. Procrastination is a sign of weak character.” — Carol Cox

“Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.” — Nassim N. Taleb

“He who hesitates is last.” — Mae West

“Procrastination is a sign of a perfectionist.” — P. J. Kennedy

“It’s easy to get distracted and procrastinate sometimes, but you can make it happen.” — Danny Yann

“Don’t let procrastination take over your life. Be brave and take risks. Your life is happening right now.” — Roy Bennett

“The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.” — Henry Wheeler Shaw

“My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry ’til a more convenient season.” — Mary Todd Lincoln

“Don’t postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson.” — Alan Cohen

“Procrastination is also a subtle act of corruption – it corrupts valuable time.” — Amit Abraham

“Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit.” — John Updike

“Procrastination may not take up a lot of effort physically but without you knowing it, it takes over the mind.” — Stephen Hall

“You may not be punished for your procrastination, but for sure you will be punished by your procrastination.” — Debasish Mridha

“The problem with procrastination is it’s been around since the beginning of time it seems.” — Stephen Richards

“Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.” — Napoleon Hill

“Procrastination is the foundation of all disasters.” — Pandora Poikilos

“Doing just a little bit during the time we have available puts you that much further ahead than if you took no action at all.” — Byron Pulsifer

“The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started.” — Dawson Trotman

“Procrastination is not the problem. It is the solution. Procrastinate now, don’t put it off.” — Ellen DeGeneres

“Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.” — Holbrook Jackson

“Someday is not a day of the week.” — Janet Dailey

“Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man.” — Jimmy Lyons

“Procrastination gives you something to look forward to.” — Joan Konner

“It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.” — Leonardo da Vinci

“The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.” — Lord Chesterfield

“Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.” — M. Scott Peck

“Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.” — Mason Cooley

“Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.” — Michael Landon

“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” — Napoleon Hill

“Life is a game board. Time is your opponent. If you procrastinate, you will lose the game. You must make a move to be victorious.” — Napoleon Hill

“By one delay after another, they spin out their whole lives, till there’s no more future left for them.” — Roger L’Estrange

“There are a million ways to lose a workday, but not even a single way to get one back.” — Tom DeMarco

“Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.” —

Short Procrastination Quotes

“Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.” — Henry Miller

“Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.” — Don Marquis

“Happy soul and a hardcore procrastinator seeking truth.” — Pallav Gautam

“Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.” — Charles Dickens

“If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.” — Robert Collier

“You may delay, but time will not.” — Benjamin Franklin

“I can’t think about that right now. If I do, I’ll go crazy. I’ll think about that tomorrow.” — Margaret Mitchell

“Procrastinate now, don’t put it off.” — Ellen DeGeneres

“Procrastination is opportunity’s natural assassin.” — Victor Kiam

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.” — Mark Twain

“There is no avoidance in delay.” — Aeschylus

“Delay is the deadliest form of denial.” — C. Northcote Parkinson

“If you are always saying I’ll do it tomorrow, then your tomorrow will then turn into another day and so on, and so, etc. etc.” — Victoria Addino

“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” — Pablo Picasso

“If you put off everything till you’re sure of it, you’ll never get anything done.” — Norman Vincent Peale

“Never postpone until tomorrow what you can postpone until the day after.” — Raoul Wallenberg

“Procrastinators are the painters of tomorrow.” — Rick Rotante

“Procrastination is a ring on every man’s finger.” — Trebonianus Gallus

“In delay there lies no plenty.” — William Shakespeare

“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” — Abraham Lincoln

“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.” — Abraham Lincoln

“Procrastination gives you time to consider divergent ideas, to think in nonlinear ways, to make unexpected leaps.” — Adam Grant

“The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.” — Alexander Graham Bell

“Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.” — Benjamin Franklin

“Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today.” — Benjamin Franklin

“In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it.” — Charles Baudelaire

“Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they’ve started.” — David Allen

“No matter how much time you’ve wasted in the past, you still have an entire today.” — Denis Waitley

“Procrastination is the kidnapper of souls and the recruiting officer of hell.” — Edward Irving

Related Posts:

• 34 Affirmations for Procrastination
• 100 Hello December Captions to Kick Off the Holidays
• How To Stop Being Lazy: 7 Simple Ways to Overcome Laziness
• 80 Funny Letterboard Quotes for Every Occasion
• 140 Inspirational Work Quotes for Achieving Your Goals
• 80 January Letter Board Quotes: Fresh Inspirations…