Delay Quotes

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

  Ban Ki-moon

  Pay

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Time, Procrastination, Lost

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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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• 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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• 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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• To delay is injustice.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Procrastination, Injustice

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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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• Tear thyself from delay.

  Horace

  Procrastination, Tears, Thyself

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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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• Consumer confidence in an industry can be a very fragile thing. It only takes a few builders who promise but don't deliver, who cheat rather than perform, who delay until the warranty expires rather than repair, to damage the reputation of an entire industry.

  Virginia Knauer

  Promise, Damage, Reputation

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• In delay there lies no plenty.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Procrastination, Plenty

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [42]

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• The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree?

  Richard Baxter

  Tree, Able, Sin

  Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The Practical Works of Richard Baxter: with a Life of the Author and a Critical Examination of His Writings by William Orme”, p.11

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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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• The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

  Thomas Paine

  Teacher, Crazy, Anger

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• None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Want

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• When it comes to success, it will come when it comes. A delay does not mean a denial.

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Mean, Doe

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