Quotes with delay

  • The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.
  • If you act anxiously to hasten your results, you delay their arrival. Calm poise reveals the shortest route home.

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  • Publilius Syrus All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Ben Horowitz As a company gets big, the information that informs decision-making gets massive. Depending upon the prism through which you view the business, your perspective will vary. If two people are in charge, this variance will cause conflict and delay.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Simone de Beauvoir Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
    Simone de Beauvoir
    French writer and philosopher (1908 - 1986)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • John Ford Delay in vengeance delivers a heavier blow.
    John Ford
    American film director (1894 - 1973)
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  • Cyril Northcote Parkinson Delay is the deadliest form of denial.
    Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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  • Denis Waitley 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
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • John Cage 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
    American composer and music (1912 - 1992)
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  • Bobby McFerrin If I can delay that [pain] for a moment and bring a little joy... and help them to see things a little differently, then I'll be successful.
    Bobby McFerrin
    American jazz vocalist (1950 - )
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  • Alan Cohen If you act anxiously to hasten your results, you delay their arrival. Calm poise reveals the shortest route home.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • William Shakespeare In delay there lies no plenty.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ben Bernanke Many foreclosed homes are neglected or abandoned, as legal proceedings or other factors delay their resale. Deteriorating or vacant properties can, in turn, directly affect the quality of life in a neighborhood, for example, by leading to increases in vandalism or crime.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Aaron Burr 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
    American politician and lawyer (1756 - 1836)
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  • Archibald Alexander None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate.
    Archibald Alexander
    American Presbyterian theologian and professor (1772 - 1851)
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  • Horace Tear thyself from delay.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Milarepa The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.
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  • Seneca The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Seneca The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ban Kimoon The longer we delay, the more we will pay.
    Ban Kimoon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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