14 quotes found
"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by."
"God has promised forgiveness to your repentance; but He has not promised to-morrow to your procrastination."
"The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things."
"Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it."
"Faith in to-morrow instead of Christ, is Satan's nurse for man's perdition."
"Qui recte vivendi prorogat horam, Rusticus exspectat dum defluat amnis."
"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination."
"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."
"Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement."
"Do you want to learn holiness with terrible struggles and sore affliction and the plague of much remaining evil? Then wait before you turn to God."
""I will go today" is what a herdsman says; I will go tomorrow is what a shepherd-boy says. I will go is I will go, and the time passes."
"Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment."
"Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility."
"Procrastination is the thief of time."