Funny Procrastination Quotes That Will Inspire You To Act (Or Maybe Not?)
Funny Procrastination Quotes & Jokes
Like most people, I’ve struggled with procrastination throughout my life.
Sometimes it’s worse than normal, and it can be debilitating, knock my confidence and leave me frustrated. However, I usually find that being aware of it is quite fascinating.
Because the more I learn to identify when and most importantly why I’m procrastinating, the more I understand my thoughts, and how to redirect them to how I want to be thinking and acting.
After I psycho-analyze myself, I then try and look on the lighter side by turning to funny quotes and jokes all about procrastination. Because humor generally helps in these matters, and what’s not funnier than our human minds attempting to trip ourselves up via a handy tool called ‘procrastination’?
Hope you enjoy these too:
Funny Procrastination Quotes
“Procrastination is like a credit card; it’s a lot of fun until you get the bill.” Christopher Parker
“If it weren’t for the last minute, nothing would get done.” Rita Mae Brown
“Procrastinate now, don’t put it off.” Ellen DeGeneres
“Getting an idea should be like sitting on a pin; it should make you jump up and do something.” E.L. Simpson
“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done the day after tomorrow just as well.” Mark Twain
“I’m going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow!” Sam Levenson
“There’s a rumour that we actually make all our albums in the last six months before they’re released and the rest of it is procrastination.” Robert Del Naja
“Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.” Peter Drucker
“The thing about live TV is that it simply has to be done, there’s no space for procrastination.” Lawrence O’Donnell
“I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia.” Joanne Harris
“My evil genius ‘Procrastination’ has whispered me to tarry ’til a more convenient season.” Mary Todd Lincoln
“Someday is not a day of the week.” Janet Dailey
“A good procrastination should feel like you’re inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life.” Ze Frank
“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” Marthe Troly-Curtin
“Procrastination is in my genetic code.” Joe Buck
“Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.” Don Marquis
“You can’t just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. What mood is that?
Last-minute panic.” Bill Watterson
“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” Douglas Adams
“Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.” Epictetus
“I see procrastination and research as part of my artistic process.” Lynn Nottage
“Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.” Mason Cooley
“Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.” Napoleon Hill
“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.” Jerome K. Jerome
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone” Pablo Picasso
Funny Procrastination Jokes
Wife: “You’re such a procrastinator”
Husband: “Am not, and one day I will prove it.”
A lifetime of procrastination has taught me both how to do 20 minutes of work in 2 hours and 2 hours of work in 20 minutes.
I really need to see someone about my procrastinating, it’s affecting my life. I’ll research that tomorrow.
If you have something to do and you put it off for long enough, the chances are someone else will do it for you.
It took an extended quarantine for me to realize just how bad my procrastination is. My go-to excuse of ‘I have no time’ was no longer feasible, even to me. And yet, here we still are.
Did you hear about the Nun who always procrastinated on doing her laundry? She had such a filthy habit.
I’m going to join ‘Procrastinators Anonymous’. But I will join next week.
My teachers all said that I’d never achieve anything as I procrastinate too much. One day I’ll really show them.
If only there were more hours in the day, there would be enough time to procrastinate.
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