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How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.
Sep 17, 2025
Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered by tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do to-day.
It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.
There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.
Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.
Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all
Your problems is that you think you have time.
The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.
Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.
The trouble is that you think you have time.
If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.
Procrastination isn't the problem. It's the solution. It's the universe's way of saying stop, slow down, you move too fast.
I'm going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow!
He who puts off nothing till tomorrow has done a great deal.
The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started.
The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.
Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.
If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
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.
Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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.
If you wait until all the lights are 'green' before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top.
Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it.
All things come to those who wait.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
The best thing you can do is follow your dreams
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well.
Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off forever.
You may delay, but time will not.
The worst thing you can do is nothing.
If you have a 2 or 3 year old who is not talking, you must start an early intervention program. The worst thing you can do with an autistic 3 year old is to do nothing.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes in a day.
No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire today.
Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don't count.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
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.
The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.