There is no dallying with God. [ Archbishop Usher ]

Lingering labors come to naught. [ Southwell ]

For yesterday was once tomorrow. [ Persius ]

Procrastination is the thief of time. [ Young ]

Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends. [ William Shakespeare ]

Be wise to-day! 'tis madness to defer;
Next day, the fatal precedent will plead;
Thus on, till wisdom is pushed out of life.
Procrastination is the thief of time. [ Edward Young ]

Procrastination is the thief of time,
Year after year it steals, till all are fled
And to the mercies of a moment leaves
The vast concourse of an eternal scene. [ Young ]

The man who procrastinates struggles with ruin. [ Hesiod ]

We pass our life in deliberation, and we die upon it. [ Pasquier Quesnel ]

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. [ Benjamin Franklin ]

By the streets of "By and By" one arrives at the house of "Never." [ Cervantes ]

Our good purposes foreslowed are become our tormentors upon our deathbed. [ Bishop Hall ]

Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, Tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise. [ Congreve ]

Procrastination is the kidnapper of souls and the recruiting-officer of hell. [ Edward Irving ]

There is, by God's grace, an immeasurable distance between late and too late. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

When things are come to the execution, there is no secrecy comparable to celerity. [ Bacon ]

The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large. [ H. W. Shaw ]

He who prorogues the honesty of today till tomorrow, will probably prorogue his tomorrows to eternity. [ Lavater ]

By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there's no more future left for them. [ L'Estrange ]

Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer. [ Horace ]

God has promised forgiveness to your repentance; but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination. [ St. Augustine ]

Is not he imprudent, who, seeing the tide making haste towards him apace, will sleep till the sea overwhelms him? [ Tillotson ]

Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer; Next day the fatal precedent will plead; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. [ Young ]

Indulge in procrastination, and in time you will come to this, that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can't do it. [ Charles Buxton ]

Let's take the instant by the forward top; for we are old, and on our quick'st decrees the inaudible and noiseless foot of Time steals, ere we can effect them. [ William Shakespeare ]

Know the true value of time: snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. [ Lord Chesterfield ]

Procrastination has been called a thief, - the thief of time. I wish it were no worse than a thief. It is a murderer; and that which it kills is not time merely, but the immortal soul. [ Nevins ]

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace, from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time; and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. [ William Shakespeare ]

Make use of time, if you love eternity. Yesterday cannot be recalled. Tomorrow cannot be assured. Today is only yours, and if you procrastinate, you lose, and lose forever. One today is worth two tomorrows. [ Euchiridion ]

To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed. [ Tillotson ]

To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do today that you may enjoy tomorrow it is but deferring the enjoyment; so that to be idle or industrious, vicious or virtuous, is but with a view of procrastinating the one or the other. [ B. R. Haydon ]

Without distinction, without calculation, without procrastination, love. Lavish it upon the poor, where it is very easy; especially upon the rich, who often need it most; most of all upon our equals, where it is very difficult, and for whom perhaps we each do least of all. [ Henry Drummond ]

There is no moment like the present: not only so, but moreover, there is no moment at all, that is, no instant force and energy, but in the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards; they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and skurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence. [ Miss Edgeworth ]