Delay Quotes - Page 2

• God's delays are not God's denials.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Inspirational, God, Denial

  Robert H. Schuller (1986). “Move Ahead with Possibility Thinking”, Jove

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• 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 concerns of an eternal state. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; at fifty chides his infamous delay, pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; in all the magnanimity of thought, resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same.

  Edward Young

  Procrastination, Men, Years

  'The Complaint: Night Thoughts' (1742-5) 'Night 1' l. 417

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• Give yourself another chance to make your dream a reality. Don't allow a delay to become a denial. Raise the bar on yourself, increase your determination, and explode your drive. You will fail your way to success. Everything you experience can be used to grow through...not just to go through. Make your dream happen! You deserve!

  Les Brown

  Dream, Determination, Reality

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• Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared.

  Lucan

  Society, Prepared

  "Pharsalia". Poem by Lucan, Book I, line 281,

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• You should not delay the good things in life. Just do them. Whenever you get a chance to do spiritual practice or seva, don’t miss it. Those are the real precious moments of your life.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Spiritual, Real, Practice

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• Life goes by rapidly. Don't delay. Don't put it off. Don't wait until you have some spare time. Don't wait until the time's 'right'.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Waiting, Personal Development, Spare Time

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• God may delay, but He always comes.

  Martin Luther

  May

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• Delay is preferable to error.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mistake, Errors, Presidential

  Thomas Jefferson, H. A. Washington (2011). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private”, p.357, Cambridge University Press

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

  Roger L'Estrange

  Procrastination, Whole Life, Left

  Sir Roger L'Estrange (1714). “Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists: with morals and reflections”, p.400

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• Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.

  Hilary Mantel

  Procrastination, Imagination, Privilege

  "Hilary Mantel: 'If I'm suffering, I can make that pay'" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2012.

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• Delay always heeds danger.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Danger, Heed

  "Don Quixote". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, Book IV, Chapter III, 1605-1615.

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• A right delayed is a right denied.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Rights, Rejection

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• Business is business, that is, you must do everything promptly; delay and shuffling won't do.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Business, Shuffling

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2859, Manonmani Publishers

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• Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow.
  Nothing endures but change.

  Heraclitus

  Understanding, Today, Tomorrow

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• Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary.

  William Shakespeare

  Procrastination, Snail, Beggary

  William Shakespeare, James R. Siemon (2009). “King Richard III: Third Series”, p.332, A&C Black

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• The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.

  Winston Churchill

  Procrastination, Entering, Half

  Sir Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches”, p.126, A&C Black

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• Every delay that postpones our joys, is long.
  [Lat., Longa mora est nobis omnis, quae gaudia differt.]

  Ovid

  Long, Joy

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• Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Creativity, Procrastination, Design

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.199, Wordsworth Editions

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• Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about.

  Joseph Heller

  Order, Worry, Disease

  1961 Catch-22, ch.17.

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• We ask the great masses of India to be patient a short time longer, while the cause of freedom is being fought out, not because we want to delay, but because the hard facts of war make a complete change impossible at the moment.

  Stafford Cripps

  War, India, Want

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• Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Mean, Gun, People

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• I mean, it's been quite busy, especially with the rain delay the first few days, and then having to play the late evenings, waiting here every day. It's been kind of difficult.

  Daniela Hantuchova

  Mean Girls, Rain, Play

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• Do not delay,
  Do not delay: the golden moments fly!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Procrastination, Golden Moments, Golden

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.817, Jazzybee Verlag

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• One man by delay restored the state, for he preferred the public safety to idle report.
  [Lat., Unus homo nobis cunctando restituit rem,
  Non ponebat enim rumores ante salutem.]

  Quintus Ennius

  Men, Safety, States

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• The purpose of a doctor or any human in general should not be to simply delay the death of the patient, but to increase the person's quality of life.

  Patch Adams

  Doctors, Quality, Purpose

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