p. 125 | Procrastination

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 21, 1884

Procrastination.

"GOING to do it," never made a fortune, built a house, or won a name. "Going to do it," has been the bane of more people than would fill the census of a dozen New Yorks. The man who is always "going to do it," rarely, if ever, does it. The only thing he does do, is to go out of the world without doing it. If he has a task which must be done, he at once announces, with a deal of boasting and a great waste of words, time, and breath, that he is "going to do it." And while he is thus "going to do it," somebody else who is not suspected of "going to do it," does it, and reaps the reward. The man who is always "going to do it," is a friend of Procrastination. He is ever just on the eve of doing it, when some trivial obstacle interferes and he gives up in despair, or puts off the "going to do it" until another time,—until that eternal to-morrow. "Going to do it" is a style of doing business which never did pay, and never will pay its way.

Do ALL the good you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can, in every place you can.