Delay Quotes

Delay has always been injurious to those who are prepared.

Lucan.

Defer no time; delays have dangerous ends.

Shakespeare.

It is one of the illusions, that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write is on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly until he knows and feels that every day is doomsday.

Carlyle.

O, how many deeds of deathless virtue and immortal crime the world has wanted had the actor said. “I will do this tomorrow.

Lord John Russell.

God keep you from “It is too late.” When the fool had made up his mind the market has gone by.

Spanish Proverb.

No mna ever served God by doing things tomorrow. If we honor Christ, and are blessed, it is by the things which we do today.

Procrastination is the thief of time; year after ear if steals till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves the vast concerns of an eternal scene.

Young.

He that takes time to resolve, gives leisure to deny, and warning to prepare.

Quarles.

The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak but commonly false too; most of the weak are false.

Lavater.

In delay we waste our lights in vain; like lamps by day.

Shakespeare.

Tomorrow I will live, the fool does say: today itself’s too late; the wise lived yesterday.

Martial.

Tomorrow and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time; and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.

Shakespeare.

Every delay is hateful, but it gives wisdom.

Publius Syrus.

Some one speaks admirably of the well ripened fruit of sage delay.

Balzac.

Shun delays, they breed remorse; take thy time while time is lent thee. Creeping snails have weakest force; fly their fault, lest thou repent thee. Good is best when soonest wrought; lingering labors come to nought.

Southwell.

Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety.

Tryon Edwards.

Time drinketh up the essence of every great and noble action which ought to be performed but is delayed in the execution.

Veeshnoo Sarma.

The surest method of arriving at a knowledge of God’s eternal purpose about us is to be found in the right use of the present moment. Each hour comes with some little fagot of God’s will fastened upon its back.

F.W. Faber.