Delay Quotes

• Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

  Denis Waitley

  Motivational, Change, Teacher

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• Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Change, Positive, Inspirational Life

  Alice Schwarzer, Simone de Beauvoir (1984). “Simone De Beauvoir Today”, Not Avail

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• Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

  George Canning

  Business, Mistake, Failure

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• Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal.

  Mario Andretti

  Motivational, Sight, Goal

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The longer we delay, the more we will pay.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Pay

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• Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Procrastination, Self Help

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1785). “The dramatick writings of Will. Shakspere,: with the notes of all the various commentators; printed complete from the best editions of Sam. Johnson and Geo. Steevens”

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• Delay is the enemy of progress.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Enemy Of Progress, Enemy, Progress

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• You may delay, but time will not.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.43, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.

  Aaron Burr

  Light, Giving, Advice

  "The Complete Art of Public Speaking‎" by Jacob Morton Braude, (p. 84), 1970.

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• Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing.

  William Feather

  Self Confidence, People, Action

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• You made delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Time, Procrastination, Lost

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• At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

  Ovid

  Wise, Time, Folly

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• Delay always breeds danger.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Anger, Danger

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

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  Criticism is something we can avoid easily
  by saying nothing, doing nothing,
  and being nothing.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Relationship, Failure

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• Never think that God's delays are God's denials. True prayer always receives what it asks, or something better.

  Tryon Edwards

  Prayer, Thinking, Denial

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• 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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• Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Procrastination, Political, Denial

  The Law of Delay ch. 13 (1971)

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• Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.

  William Arthur Ward

  Failure, Detours, Doing Nothing

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• A right delayed is a right denied.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Rights, Rejection

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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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• Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

  Tacitus

  Haste, Truth Is, Inspection

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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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• No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Powerful, Believe

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• Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Leadership, Sports, Procrastination

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• Delay in justice is injustice.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Justice, Injustice

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