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• When God delays in fulfilling our little thoughts, it is to have Himself room to work out His great ones.

  Lilias Trotter

  Work Out, Littles, Rooms

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• Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we'd find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Giving, Effort, Events

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• Woman is certainly the daughter of Delay personified!

  Plautus

  Daughter, Women

  Titus Maccius Plautus, Paul Nixon (1924). “Plautus: with an English translation”

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• This is not a game, ... Debt has become a part of who we are. It's become that spoiled child in the grocery store with their lip stuck out: 'I want it. I want it. I deserve it because I breathe air.' And, well, that's an uphill climb in our culture right now, to go against that and say, 'Hey, let's be grownups here. Let's be mature, learn to delay pleasure, save up and pay for things.'

  Dave Ramsey

  Children, Air, Games

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• Rather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my "sentence" without delay. It was usually about an hour for epigrams; somewhat longer for a paradox.

  Peter De Vries

  Punishment, Waste, Arguing

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• I take action in the direction of my dreams, passions, talents, and interests. I know that I have a much-needed life purpose, which I embrace without delay. I focus only on today with respect to my goals, trusting that all of my tomorrows will work out well.

  Doreen Virtue

  Dream, Passion, Work Out

  Doreen Virtue (2008). “Daily Guidance from Your Angels”, p.152, Hay House, Inc

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• Thus, though I have heard of successful military operations that were clumsy but swift, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Military, War

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• So far are we generally from thinking what we often say of the shortness of life, that at the time when it is necessarily shortest we form projects which we delay to execute, indulge such expectations as nothing but along train of events can gratify, and suffer those passions to gain upon us which are only excusable in the prime of life.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Passion, Thinking, Expectations

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• It is said that one should not hesitate to correct himself when he has made a mistake. If he corrects himself without the least bit of delay, his mistakes will disappear.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Mistake, War, Disappear

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo, William Scott Wilson (2002). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.42, Kodansha International

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• Her coming was my hope each day, Her parting was my pain; The chance that did her steps delay Was ice in every vein.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Pain, Ice, Veins

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.222, Penguin

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• How many beautiful trees gave their lives that today's scandal should, without delay, reach a million readers.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Beautiful, Nature, Tree

  Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp

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• The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.

  John Piper

  Believe, Detours, Capacity

  John Piper (2012). “Future Grace, Revised Edition: The Purifying Power of the Promises of God”, p.170, Multnomah

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• Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.

  Epicurus

  Philosophy, Study, Young

  Epicurus, Brad Inwood, Lloyd P. Gerson “The Epicurus Reader”, Hackett Publishing

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• There is a danger in the word someday when what it means is “not this day.”...The scriptures make the danger of delay clear. It is that we may discover that we have run out of time. The God who gives us each day as a treasure will require an accounting. We will weep, and He will weep, if we have intended to repent and to serve Him in tomorrows which never came or have dreamt of yesterdays where the opportunity to act was past. This day is a precious gift of God. The thought “Someday I will” can be a thief of the opportunities of time and the blessings of eternity.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Inspirational, Bible, God

  FaceBook post by Henry B Eyring from Jan 08, 2015

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• Short cuts make long delays.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Cutting, Long, Pippin

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.72, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.

  John Cage

  Food, Cooking, Poison

  John Cage (2010). “Silence: Lectures and Writings”, p.164, Wesleyan University Press

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• The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• When your dawn theater sounds to clear your sinuses: don't delay. Jump. Those voices may be gone before you hit the shower to align your wits. Speed is everything. The 90-mph dash to your machine is a sure cure for life rampant and death most real. Make haste to live. Oh, God, yes. Live. And write. With great haste.

  Ray Bradbury

  Real, Writing, Mph

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• Peace is no mere matter of men fighting or not fighting. Peace, to have meaning for many who have known only suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health, and education, as well as freedom and human dignity - a steadily better life. If peace is to be secure, long-suffering and long-starved, forgotten peoples of the world, the underprivileged and the undernourished, must begin to realize without delay the promise of a new day and a new life.

  Ralph Bunche

  Education, Peace, Freedom

  "Some Reflections on Peace in Our Time". Ralph Bunche's Nobel lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1950.

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• For the world order to be one of peace and justice, for the global village to be a theater of right livelihood, it is imperative that a new and proactive spiritual vision commensurate to the challenges of the emerging world order be enunciated without delay.

  Agnivesh

  Spiritual, Order, Justice

  Agnivesh's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2004.

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• A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and spouses.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Jobs, Sleep, Insomnia

  A. J. Jacobs (2012). “Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection”, p.264, Simon and Schuster

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• The affairs of the world will go on forever, do not delay the practice of meditation.
  Once you have met with the profound instructions from a meditation master,
  with single pointed determination, set about realizing the Truth.

  Milarepa

  Determination, Practice, Profound

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• The more in vibrational sync you are with who you really are, then the more you are allowing only those things that you're wanting, and the less resistance there is. And the less resistance there is, then the less delay between the idea of the thought and the receiving of it.

  Esther Hicks

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Being Yourself

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• Let him that desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction.

  Samuel Johnson

  Giving, Desire, Haste

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An essay on his life and genius”, p.174

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• But to procrastinate and prevaricate simply because you're afraid of erring, when others - I mean our brethren in Germany - must make infinitely more difficult decisions every day, seems to me almost to run counter to love. To delay or fail to make decisions may be more sinful than to make wrong decisions out of faith and love.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Running, Mean, Decision

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