- “How soon ‘not now’ becomes ‘never’.” Martin Luther
- “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.” Denis Waitley
- “If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.” Olin Miller
- “procrastination occurs when there’s “a temporal gap between intended behavior and enacted behavior” – Professor Clarry Lay – Psychologist
- “I am getting ready to get ready so when I am ready I know that I am ready”
- “Even a correct decision is wrong when it was taken too late.” Lee Iacocca, businessman
- “Without action, the world would still be an idea.” George Doriot, founder of INSEAD business school
- ”Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.” George Claude Lorimer
- “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.” Eva Young
- “Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.” Cyril Northcote Parkinson, historian
- “Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.” Dale Carnegie
- “In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” Theodore Roosevelt
- “Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.” Spanish Proverb
- “A good solution applied with vigour now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later.” George Patton, American general
- “We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.” H.V. Adolt
- “Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task” William James
- “A year from now you may wish you had started today.” Karen Lamb
- “I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” Douglas Adams, author
- “Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started.” David Allen
- “Don’t put off until tomorrow what can be done today.”
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