80 positive quotes to stop procrastinating
- You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. – Martin Luther King Jr.
- The best way to get something done is to begin. – Author Unknown
- Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. – Don Marquis
- Do it now. Sometimes ‘later’ becomes ‘never.’ – Author Unknown
- Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. – Napoleon Hill
- Action is the foundational key to all success. – Pablo Picasso
- Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. – Pablo Picasso
- A year from now, you may wish you had started today. – Karen Lamb
- Procrastination makes easy things hard and hard things harder. – Mason Cooley
- Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow. – Robert Kiyosaki
- The secret of getting ahead is getting started. – Mark Twain
- The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started. – Dawson Trotman
- Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work. – Stephen King
- Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in installments; you get a little today, a little tomorrow until the whole package is given out. – John C. Maxwell
- Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow just as well." – Mark Twain
- Dreams don’t work unless you do. – John C. Maxwell
- You don’t have to be perfect to start, but you have to start to be perfect. – Zig Ziglar
- Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. – Voltaire
- Doing nothing is the surest way to be nothing.– Author Unknown
- Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.– Arthur Ashe
- Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him. – Charles Dickens
- The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now. – Chinese Proverb
- You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. – Wayne Gretzky
- What is not started today is never finished tomorrow. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. – Lao Tzu
- Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. – Peter Marshall
- Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us show up and get to work. – Chuck Close
- Don’t overthink it. Start now. – Author Unknown
- A little progress each day adds up to big results. – Satya Nani
- The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. – Walt Disney
- Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today. – Will Rogers
- Time waits for no one. – Folklore
- If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done. – Bruce Lee
- The cost of procrastination is the life you could have lived. – Author Unknown
- Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. – Henry David Thoreau
- Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow. – Benjamin Franklin
- Stop waiting for the perfect time. The time is now. – Author Unknown
- Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. – William James
- Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better. – Jim Rohn
- Now is the only time you own. Live, love, toil with a will. – Author Unknown
- Well done is better than well said. – Benjamin Franklin
- A goal without action is just a dream. – Author Unknown
- The future depends on what you do today. – Mahatma Gandhi
- Don’t be busy. Be productive. – Author Unknown
- Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried. – Author Unknown
- To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing. – Eva Young
- Make each day your masterpiece. – John Wooden
- Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard. – Tim Notke
- One today is worth two tomorrows. – Benjamin Franklin
- Don’t delay. Life goes faster than you think. – Author Unknown
- Stop waiting for Friday, for summer, for someone to fall in love with you. Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting and make the most of the moment you are in now. – Author Unknown
- The most effective way to do it is to do it. – Amelia Earhart
- Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan. – Margaret Thatcher
- By the time you finish procrastinating, someone else is already doing what you’ve dreamed of. – Author Unknown
- Do something today that your future self will thank you for. – Sean Patrick Flanery
- Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in. – Napoleon Bonaparte
- Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. – Spanish Proverb
- Stop talking. Start walking. – Author Unknown
- The antidote to procrastination is to just start. – Author Unknown
- Act as if it were impossible to fail. – Dorothea Brande
- You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do. – Carl Jung
- It always seems impossible until it’s done. – Nelson Mandela
- You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do. – Henry Ford
- Someday is not a day of the week. – Denise Brennan-Nelson
- Take the first step, no matter how small. – Author Unknown
- A bad plan is better than no plan at all. – Author Unknown
- The more you wait, the harder it gets. – Author Unknown
- It’s not about having time; it’s about making time. – Author Unknown
- Don’t let procrastination steal your potential. – Author Unknown
- Procrastination is opportunity’s assassin. – Victor Kiam
- The clock is ticking. Make the most of today. – Author Unknown
- An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. – Arnold Glasow
- The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it. – Author Unknown
- Start before you’re ready. – Steven Pressfield
- Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. – Coco Chanel
- Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and start being excited about what could go right. – Tony Robbins
- Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. – Theodore Roosevelt
- Don’t count the days; make the days count. – Muhammad Ali
- Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out. – Robert Collier
- The way to achieve your dreams is to start now, without delay. – Author Unknown