Procrastination

Procrastination is the father of a countless family of things that come too late.  Procrastination means making an appointment with opportunity to "call again tomorrow."  It kills self-control, saps mental energy, makes man a creature of circumstances instead of their creator.  There is one brand of procrastination that is a virtue.  It is never doing today a wrong that can be put off till tomorrow, never performing an act today that may make tomorrow ashamed.  (William George Jordan, "The Power of Truth", Improvement Era, May 1934, 273)