Postponing Quotes - Page 2

• There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Peace, Military, War

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolò Machiavelli, 1513.

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• Procrastinate now, don't put it off.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Life, Procrastination

  "Ellen DeGeneres: Here and Now". Comedy, Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• Being an adult is the ability to postpone a want for the sake of a family need.

  Chris Hogan

  Adults, Needs, Want

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• Preparing to live your dream is postponing it. You are either living it, or not.

  Alan Cohen

  Dream, Preparing, Live Your Dreams

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• People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now.

  Denis Waitley

  Moving, Procrastination, People

  Denis Waitley (1985). “The Winners Edge”, Berkley

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• When you resist doing what you know needs done, it is difficult. Find a mental way to enjoy it, and just do it, and it is easy.

  Joe Vitale

  Inspirational, Needs, Done

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• We gotta ditch conservatism and people that believe it, we gotta move on. Otherwise, if we don't, we're just delaying our nightmare, postponing the nightmare. That's Ford O'Connell.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Moving, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The worst thing you can do is nothing.

  Terry Pratchett

  Motivational, Change, Positive

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• The best thing you can do is follow your dreams

  The Rev

  Motivational, Change, Positive

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  Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

  Pope Paul VI

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Life, Motivational, Positive

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• Hesitation only enlarges, magnifies the fear. Take action promptly. Be decisive.

  David J. Schwartz

  Action, Hesitation

  David J. Schwartz (2014). “The Magic of Thinking Big”, p.42, Penguin

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• Happiness is something that you don't postpone. If you are postponing happiness - it is something you will probably never experience much of.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Ifs

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• The long days seduce all thought away, and we lie like the lizards in the sun, postponing our lives indefinitely.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Lying, Long, Lizards

  Elizabeth Smart (1945). “By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept ; And, The Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals”, Vintage

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• Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant.

  Henri Queuille

  Funny, Art, Decision

  The Bureaucrat Magazine, 1985.

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• Postponing happiness until "all your ducks are in order" means never because life is not that clean, fair or predictable. It isn't what happens to you that defines your life, it is what you do with it that does.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Happiness, Mean, Order

  Laura Schlessinger (2007). “The Proper Care and Feeding of Marriage”, p.59, Dr. Laura Schlessinger

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• We have been born once and there can be no second birth. Fir all eternity we shall no longer be. But you, although you are not master of tomorrow, are postponing your happiness.

  Epicurus

  Tomorrow, Birth, Eternity

  Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”

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• Prudence does not mean failing to accept responsibilities and postponing decisions; it means being committed to making joint decisions after pondering responsibly the road to be taken, decisions aimed at strengthening that covenant between human beings and the environment, which should mirror the creative love of God, from whom we came and towards whom we are journeying.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Taken, Mean, Responsibility

  Pope Benedict XVI's Message for The Celebration of The World Day of Peace, w2.vatican.va. January 1, 2008.

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• Why Do We Procrastinate? P - postponing life R - resisting change O - overly cautious C - contemplating course of action R - reasoning and justifying A - afraid of success S - summoning up some courage T - trouble moving forward I - inability to see the outcome N - not able to trust in your abilities to make decisions A - attempting to control the situation T - time to reflect on your motives E - erodes progress

  Samuel Richardson

  Moving, Decision, Progress

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• The U.S. and, to a certain extent, countries in Europe as well, have experienced growing inequality within their population for decades - a small group of people own the lion's share of the wealth. Populists take advantage of this, and their policies are extremely hard to predict. And this has serious consequences. Companies shy away from risk, postponing their investment decisions in times of uncertainty, the stock markets get nervous and unemployment threatens to increase.

  Nicholas Bloom

  Country, Europe, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I have a feeling that art is something you do for yourself, and that any time you turn your decisions over to someone else you're postponing at best, your own development. The atmosphere of the workshop should be that of trying out one's own work and accepting the signals from others but not accepting the dictation of others because that is a violation of the spirit of art. Art can't be done by somebody else, it has got to be done by the artist.

  William Stafford

  Art, Teaching, Decision

  William Stafford, Paul Merchant, Vincent Wixon (2003). “The answers are inside the mountains: meditations on the writing life”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• Postponing doing the really interesting things in life for later, when you don't have the energy.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Interesting, Energy

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• The secret of getting along with people is that of postponing quarrels.

  Murray Leinster

  People, Secret, Quarrels

  Murray Leinster (2007). “The Planet Explorer”, p.85, Wildside Press LLC

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• I was poisoning myself with alcohol and medicating myself. I was trying to numb things. I was trying not to feel things, and that's ridiculous. It's one of the dumbest things you can do, because all you're doing is postponing the inevitable. Someday you'll have to look all those things in the eye rather than try to numb the pain.

  Johnny Depp

  Pain, Eye, Alcohol

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• I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.

  Malcolm X

  Mean, Men, Black

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.374, Ballantine Books

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