Quotes About Postponement

#1. I had a mother who taught me there is no such thing as failure. It is just a temporary postponement of success.

Buddy Ebsen

#2. People will vote for someone who [they perceive] is strong and wrong before they will vote for someone who appears weak but is right.

William J. Clinton

#3. The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.

Norman O. Brown

#4. Perhaps the postponement in modern culture of the historically relevant challenges of adolescents,

Louis Cozolino

#5. POSTHUMOUS POSTPONEMENT
FACT: Unlike airplanes, many dreams take off after the pilot's departure
Kamil Ali

Kamil Ali

#6. No gentleman ever has any money.

Oscar Wilde

#7. When I first started, my message was about joy, but I didn't really have the vocabulary and life experience to fully deliver it.

Jason Mraz

#8. And if we were another country being analyzed by America, we would conclude that this country is ripe for stealing elections and for fraud.

DeForest Soaries

#9. This isn't how sickness was in childhood. A postponement. An excuse to grow up.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#10. How beautiful the days, They come and go.

Frank Loesser

#11. I'll worry about tomorrow tomorrow.

Soseki Natsume

#12. Poetry, Shakespeare and opera, are like mumps and should be caught when young. In the unhappy event that there is a postponement to mature years, the results may be devastating.

Dimitris Mita

#13. The Singularity is at once an escape and a birth fantasy. I said to him: A Zeus dream that avoids the organic body altogether. Brand-new creatures burst forth from men's heads. Presto! The mother and her evil vagina disappears.

Siri Hustvedt

#14. To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off. It is only a postponement of the real payment, a bribe paid for silence, a creditsystem in which a paper promise to pay answers for the time instead of liquidation. We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. The larger loneliness of our lives evolves from our unwillingness to spend ourselves, stir ourselves. We are always damping down our inner weather, permitting ourselves the comforts of postponement, of rehearsals

Carol Shields

#16. Let us remember that postponement of tapering is only that-a postponementLet's not lose the chance, the warning that we have been given, because this is going to come back and what we need to do is put our house in order before.

Raghuram Rajan

#17. Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.

Henry Miller

#18. We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always urgent, 'here and now,' without any postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#19. Nobody is responsible for your sorrows and poverty, not even the devil. It is the work of the enemies of time that lives in some men, and their names are, 'Laziness and Procrastination'.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#20. Wealth is a gift from God, and pride is bequeathed to us from the devil.

Douglas Wilson

#21. Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.

Moliere

#22. At some point in their life, everyone thinks they should go to law school. You may in fact think you want to go to law school now.

Tucker Max

#23. Ever since man began to till the soil and learned not to eat the seed grain but to plant it and wait for harvest, the postponement of gratification has been the basis of a higher standard of living and of civilization.

S.I. Hayakawa

#24. So long as you have faith in your Guru, nothing will be able to obstruct your way.

Swami Vivekananda

#25. Then, without postponing anything, build a structure that will allow you to transform this vision into reality

Sunday Adelaja

#26. Life's only choosing when to die. Life's a big postponement because the choice is so difficult. It's a tremendous relief not to have to choose.

Anthony Burgess

#27. Nothing but God ever completely satisfies, because the soul was made for God. Don't starve your soul.

Billy Graham

#28. Postponement: The father of failure.

Elbert Hubbard

#29. Chamberlain's visit to Hitler today may bring things to a head or may result in a temporary postponement of what looks to me likean inevitable conflict within the next five years.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#30. Action cures fear. Indecision, postponement, on the other hand, fuel fear.

David J. Schwartz

#31. The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others.

Eric Hoffer

#32. Intentional suffering and the postponement of happiness is not yoga or Buddhism. It will not lead to a better incarnation.

Frederick Lenz

#33. First we become the best, then we'll become first.

Lou Holtz

#34. When you're about to be turned down, go for a postponement.

Ken Follett

#35. Mortality: not acquittal but a series of postponements is what we hope for.

Mason Cooley

#36. This is one of my favorite pick up strategies: I'm constantly giving women my keys. So far, none of them have shown up. Matter of time. And I've been robbed twice.

Aziz Ansari

#37. Never check email first thing in the morning. Instead, complete your most important task before 11:00 A.M. to avoid using lunch or reading email as a postponement excuse.

Tim Ferriss

#38. was passed authorizing the appointment of a commission to select a site for an additioual lunatic asylum and to commence its erection. A site was selected three miles from Morristown, and 430 acres of land were purchased. An extensive building was erected, at a cost, including land,

Monroe Howell

#39. Genuine goodness isn't discovered through postponement but must exist now or not at all. It cannot be based on what is not. We must find it in what is and what we truly see.

H.E. Davey