Postpone Quotes

Discipline is when we postpone the pleasure of today for the benefit of tomorrow.

Habitual procrastinators will readily testify to all the lost opportunities, missed deadlines, failed relationships and even monetary losses incurred just because of one nasty habit of putting things off until it is often too late.

Stephen Richards

Both positive and negative thinking are contagious.

Stephen Richards

The problem with procrastination is it’s been around since the beginning of time it seems.

Stephen Richards

How often do you find yourself saying, “In a minute”, “I’ll get to it” or “Tomorrow’s good enough” and every other possible excuse in the book? Compare it with how often you decide it’s got to be done, so let’s get on and do it! That should tell you just how serious your procrastinating problem really is.

Stephen Richards

Stop sleeping, Get to work! You will have much time to sleep when you die.

Michael Bassey Johnson

With life, the absolute truth can be postpone for a while, looking at the daily problems of life but cannot be avoided.

You are a cool cemetery.You have the sinner’s graveYou have the saint’s earthcollidingYou have all the bedsnarrow as a knife;as if a rally of tombstones to defend death.But you can’t really postponethe inauguration of my burial,can you?From the poem - Few Words to Cemetery

Don’t cluster tasks on your way. Some tasks would definitely have to be postponed to the next day. You can’t do all things in one day. You can’t chase two rabbits at the same time. Both will escape.

Israelmore Ayivor

Nothing is too difficult unless you decide to keep shifting it to tomorrow till you can’t do it any longer.

Israelmore Ayivor

Where procrastination and excuses reign, success is highly missed than delayed. Opportunity they say comes but once. You must therefore be prepared to tap every good opportunity that appears on your way

Israelmore Ayivor

Bear it in mind that tomorrow must also have its own brand of assignments. Shifting today’s work to tomorrow is an inevitable step towards massing up difficult tasks for yourself, whose risk of leading into failure is high.

Israelmore Ayivor

Your later may be late. Never postpone your salvation HOURS to tomorrow. If it's not now, it may be never. The days are not OURS!

Israelmore Ayivor

If hard work is the source of happiness, then we can conclude that the main job of procrastination is to delay that happiness for excuses to kill.

Israelmore Ayivor

Most people do not mind dying, as long as that does not happen today.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

This is our life; dreams come true, and dreams stumble, while others dreams remain postponed perpetuity.

Eyden I.

Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana