Delay Quotes

If you always want to have whatever you want any time you want it with no delays, and denial of self, you would end up ruining your life.

Sometimes God doesn't deny, he delays.

Shannon L. Alder

Habitual procrastinators will readily testify to all the lost opportunities, missed deadlines, failed relationships and even monetary losses incurred just because of one nasty habit of putting things off until it is often too late.

Stephen Richards

Both positive and negative thinking are contagious.

Stephen Richards

The problem with procrastination is it’s been around since the beginning of time it seems.

Stephen Richards

How often do you find yourself saying, “In a minute”, “I’ll get to it” or “Tomorrow’s good enough” and every other possible excuse in the book? Compare it with how often you decide it’s got to be done, so let’s get on and do it! That should tell you just how serious your procrastinating problem really is.

Stephen Richards

With life, the absolute truth can be postpone for a while, looking at the daily problems of life but cannot be avoided.

Time is an imp—a pesky, little, hellish troll that hastens the clock when I smile but then delays the passing of minutes when I frown.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Urgency means paying the details the attention they deserve, with the respect they deserve, without delay.

Time is an excuse to delay.

Amitav Chowdhury

It is a sign of intellectual maturity to always crawl to conclusions.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is bad forever.

Shigeru Miyamoto

If you are a “now-person”, you reduce the time rate during which your success story is to be published; if you delay a bit, you are either prolonging the date of publishing or you are deleting it at all cost! Be a “now-person” and do it now!

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Don't rush in order to have things done early. Be prepared before you set off. That's the rule. However, this does not mean that you keep delaying the time for beginning. You must begin by all means! Go, get prepared!

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Be prepared before you begin. You save yourself from delay if you are fully prepared. Preparation sets you for excellence.

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Don’t cluster tasks on your way. Some tasks would definitely have to be postponed to the next day. You can’t do all things in one day. You can’t chase two rabbits at the same time. Both will escape.

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Where procrastination and excuses reign, success is highly missed than delayed. Opportunity they say comes but once. You must therefore be prepared to tap every good opportunity that appears on your way

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Decide to dream big dreams and make them happen. Never let procrastination and excuses squeeze your dreams to become small. Do it early and do it big!

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Excuses will not take you far, they will take you out. The success of your many excuses doesn’t mean you will run away from the work. It means the work will run away from you!

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Someday", you said you'd do it yesterday; Yesterday, you said you'll do it today. Today, if you push it to tomorrow, it's likely tomorrow, you'll shift it to "Someday"! Do it now!

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Q: When is the perfect time? A: Who can say, but probably somewhere between haste and delay - and it's usually most wise to start today.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

...be as fast as Usain Bolt, the winner is the winner, even if he crawls like a crab, his destiny is unshakable.

Michael Bassey Johnson

If hard work is the source of happiness, then we can conclude that the main job of procrastination is to delay that happiness for excuses to kill.

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In life you’ll face difficulties that postpone some of your dreams. Regardless, life goes fast by reminding us youth is finite and old age is stable. So you mustn’t stop dreaming and running while your strength is yet tough.

Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.

Dejan Stojanovic

There is no avoidance in delay.

Aeschylus

The truth which has been spoken too late is more damaging than a lie.

A beautiful woman should always have at the back of her mind that her ravishing appearance is only an ephemeral quality. When she wakes up in the morning, looks into the mirror, and notices that something is fading away, she knows that the time is ripe for marriage. She should be careful of who she takes into her life because the union is gonna be everlasting.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Perhaps the only reason why you worry in life, tarry your goals and bury your joy is that you are still bearing the untold story of you untouched, which seems to bang on the doors of your heart every time! Go and open the way, and fulfill your destiny!

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Leaders should know how fast time runs and how faster they can beat it. Poor leaders run slowly till time overtakes them.

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Ensure you have done each day’s portion of the heavy responsibilities resting on you. Never delay your success!

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

Simone de Beauvoir

Sometimes the only things preventing your dreams from becoming realities is the long time it is taking you to start.

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Keep your promises and never be late in acting. Act right and do the right things at the right time.

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Keep your promises and never be late in acting. Act right and do the right things at the right time.

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The first thing you need to know in order to properly measure your time is that you must not delay.

Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Do not delay your happiness, be glad in the moment.

Lailah Gifty Akita