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Big Books of 2026

Postpone Quotes

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Stephen Richards
“Both positive and negative thinking are contagious.”
― Stephen Richards, The Secret of Getting Started: Strategies to Triumph over Procrastination
tags: dawdle, defer, delay, dilly-dallying, laziness, postpone, procrastinate, procrastinating, procrastination, putting-off, stephen-richards, time-management
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Erik Pevernagie
“Let us be present in the "moment" in our care and support for the people we love and not postpone our expressions or actions of sympathy. Over and above, small gestures of kindness and assistance enrich our own emotional well-being. (“All the words he always wanted to tell her”)”
― Erik Pevernagie
tags: all-the-words, assistance, care-and-support, emotional-wellbeing, expressions-and-actions, kindness, postpone, small-gestures, sympathy, the-moment
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Stephen Richards
“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, The Secret of Getting Started: Strategies to Triumph over Procrastination
tags: dawdle, defer, delay, dilly-dallying, laziness, postpone, procrastinate, procrastinating, procrastination, putting-off, stephen-richards, time-management
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Stephen Richards
“The problem with procrastination is it’s been around since the beginning of time it seems.”
― Stephen Richards, The Secret of Getting Started: Strategies to Triumph over Procrastination
tags: dawdle, defer, delay, dilly-dallying, laziness, postpone, procrastinate, procrastinating, procrastination, putting-off, stephen-richards, time-management
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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, The Secret of Getting Started: Strategies to Triumph over Procrastination
tags: dawdle, defer, delay, dilly-dallying, laziness, postpone, procrastinate, procrastinating, procrastination, putting-off, stephen-richards, time-management
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Michael Bassey Johnson
“Stop sleeping, Get to work! You will have much time to sleep when you die.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson
tags: dawdle, dead, death, decadence, die, dilly-dallying, dying, initiative, insensibility, laziness, michael-bassey-johnson, postpone, procrastinate, procrastinating, procrastination, sloth, time-management, work
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Most people do not mind dying, as long as that does not happen today.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
tags: as-dead-as-a-doornail, asleep, birth, bite-the-big-one, breathe-one-s-last, buy-it, cash-in-one-s-chips, check-out, croak, cross-the-great-divide, dead, death, deceased, departed, die, dying, expire, expired, extinct, fallen, give-up-the-ghost, go-the-way-of-all-flesh, go-to-meet-one-s-maker, go-to-one-s-last-resting-place, gone, humor, humour, immortal, immortality, kick-the-bucket, killed, lamented, late, lay-down-one-s-life, life, lifeless, lose-one-s-life, lost, meet-one-s-death, meet-one-s-end, mortal, mortality, murdered, no-more, pass-away, pass-on, passed-away, passed-on, perish, perished, postpone, pushing-up-daisies, satire, six-feet-under, slain, slaughtered, slip-away, today, turn-up-one-s-toes, with-god
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
tags: adage, adages, aphorism, aphorisms, axiom, axioms, breakfast, brunch, chef, clinic, cook, cooking, cooks, dead, death, deep, delay, delayed, delaying, dictum, dictums, dinner, dying, employ, employed, employment, epigram, epigrams, food, foods, gnome, gnomes, hospital, hospitalize, humor, humour, ill, illness, insightful, job, jobs, lunch, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, meal, meals, medication, medicine, medicines, not-feeling-well, pill, pills, postpone, postponement, precipitate, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, satire, satirical, saying, sayings, sick, sickness, supper, sustenance, thought-provoking, thoughtful, work
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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, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
tags: conclude, conclusion, delay, do-it-now, don-t-delay, don-t-give-excuses, excuse, food-for-thought, give-excuses, happier, happiness, happy, hard-work, israelmore-ayivor, job, joy, joyful, kill, postpone, procrastinate, procrastination, rejoice, source, source-of-happiness, tomorrow
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Most people master the art of postponing the start.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
tags: entrepreneurship, fear-of-failure, just-do-it, laziness, now-or-never, postpone, postponing, procrastinate, procrastination, procrastinator
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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, Daily Drive 365
tags: christ, days, do-it-now, excuses, food-for-thought, israelmore-ayivor, jesus, jesus-christ, late, later, now, postpone, procrastinate, procrastination, redeem-the-time, right-now, salvation, saved-by-christ, shift, the-days-are-evil, time, tomorrow, tomorrow-may-be-late
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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, Dream big!: See your bigger picture!
tags: assign, assignment, assignments, brand, defer, difficult, failure, food-for-thought, hard, high, high-risk, inevitable, israelmore-ayivor, postpone, risk, shift, tasks, today, tomorrow, too-hard
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“Discipline is when we postpone the pleasure of today for the benefit of tomorrow.”
― Sunday Adelaja
tags: benefit, discipline, pleasure, postpone
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Munia Khan
“You are a cool cemetery.
You have the sinner’s grave
You have the saint’s earth
colliding
You have all the beds
narrow as a knife;
as if a rally of tombstones to defend death.
But you can’t really postpone
the inauguration of my burial,
can you?

From the poem - Few Words to Cemetery”
― Munia Khan, Beyond The Vernal Mind
tags: bed, burial, cemeteries, cemetery, collide, cool, dark, dead, death, death-and-dying, defend, die, earth, grave, graves, graveyard, inauguration, knife, knives, narrow, poem, poetry, poetry-quotes, postpone, rally, saint, sin, sinner, sinners, tomb, tombstone, tombstones
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Agnieszka Osiecka
“Przyjaciele moi i przyjaciółki! Nie odkładajcie na później ani piosenek, ani egzaminów, ani dentysty, a przede wszystkim nie odkładajcie na później miłości. Nie mówcie jej "przyjdź jutro, przyjdź pojutrze, dziś nie mam dla ciebie czasu". Bo może się zdarzyć, że otworzysz drzwi, a tam stoi zziębnięta staruszka i mówi "Przepraszam, musiałam pomylić adres..." I pstryk, iskierka gaśnie”
― Agnieszka Osiecka
tags: czas, life, love, miłość, odkładać, polish, postpone, time, życie
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Roshan Sharma
“With life, the absolute truth can be postpone for a while, looking at the daily problems of life but cannot be avoided.”
― Roshan Sharma
tags: delay, postpone, problems, solutions
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“The weaker the desire to change, the further away from now is the moment from which we plan on changing.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
tags: addiction, buddhism, change, habit, habits, new-year-s-resolution, postpone, self-development, self-help, stoicism
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Israelmore Ayivor
“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, Shaping the dream
tags: chase, cluster, delay, escape, food-for-thought, israelmore-ayivor, manage-your-time, plan, planning, postpone, rabbits, rats, shift, tasks, time-management, tomorrow, two
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Eyden I.
“This is our life; dreams come true, and dreams stumble, while others dreams remain postponed perpetuity.”
― Eyden I.
tags: dreams, dreams-quotes, life, postpone, stumble
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Michael Bassey Johnson
“Procrastination is the fire where great dreams go to burn.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts
tags: big-dreams, burned, delay, extinguish, greatest, postpone, postponing, procrastinate, procrastinating, procrastinator
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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, Dream big!: See your bigger picture!
tags: defer, deference, difficult, do-it-now, easy, excuses, food-for-thought, hard, israelmore-ayivor, later, postpone, procrastination, shift, tomorrow, too-hard
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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, Dream big!: See your bigger picture!
tags: bad-attitude, delay, do-it-now, embrace-opportunities, excuses, food-for-thought, israelmore-ayivor, opportunity, postpone, prepare, procrastination, reign, success, successful
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“90% of out tasks are postponed because we wait till the day gets over to finish them.”
― Dhaval Gajera
tags: finish, postpone, task
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“90% of our tasks are postponed because we wait till the day gets over to finish them.”
― Dhaval Gajera
tags: postpone, task
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Richie Norton
“People confuse saving money with postponing dreams. Somehow, we’ve been lulled into thinking our dreams are kept safe inside our retirement nest egg and we must sit there on top to keep it warm.”
― Richie Norton
tags: 65, dreams, live, money, nest-egg, postpone, retirement, retirement-mentality, retirement-planning
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Sino Melo
“Don't ever postpone anything that can be done right now — now is always the best Time to act.”
― Sino Melo
tags: act, now, postpone, time
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Michael Bassey Johnson
“The way you live your life is the sentence. The mistakes you make are the commas. Ellipsis are the opportunities missed. And death is the full and final stop.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Burn Like Fire
tags: comma, delaying, ending, fullstop, idleness, living-life, missed, postpone, sentence, timeout
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