Quotes to Overcome Procrastination
I’ve collected quotes throughout my professional life. I recently needed a little inspiration. I was struggling with procrastination. I was having a hard time just getting started on a few projects.
Often I use quotes to set my intention for the day or to help me change my state to a more productive one. When I typed “quotes to overcome procrastination” into the search bar on Google, I was overwhelmed. Not only were there thousands of articles in the search results, some of these articles contained 40, 50, 60, or 100+ quotes.
I was looking for quotes to help me beat procrastination and I felt like I was confronted with an overwhelming array of results. I couldn’t imagine reading through 50 quotes to find the one or two that would help me with my procrastination.
This article provides just more than a handful of quotes designed to help you overcome your procrastination. I’ve tried to find the best quotes for beating procrastination. These quotes work for me and I hope they help you, too!
Quotes about procrastination
“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
“Procrastination is opportunity’s natural assassin.”– Victor Kiam
“The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They’re full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too.”– Norman Vincent Peale
“We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.” – Seneca
“The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.”– Alexander Graham Bell
Advice for Overcoming Procrastination
“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand—and melting like a snowflake.”– Francis Bacon
“Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.” – William Shakespeare
“My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.” – Charles Dickens
“Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.” – Epictetus
“We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?” – Buddha
“It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.” – Leonardo da Vinci
Procrastination can be tough to overcome. You know that or you wouldn’t have found this article. My two favorite quotes here are from Epictetus and from Leonardo da Vinci.
Sometimes it’s helpful to be reminded that we control what actions we take and which decisions are ours to make. Which quotes were helpful to you? Leave a comment.
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Make it a great day.
