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Quotes About Delay

I am the King's Fool. He is the King-In-Wating. Let him wait.
~ Robin Hobb
Fate rushes down upon us! The time drags and the days plod past, lulling us into thinking that the doom we fear will always so delay. Then, abruptly, the dark days we have all predicted are upon us, and the time when we could have turned dire fate aside has passed. How old must I be before I learn? There is no time; there is never any time. Tomorrow may never come, but todays are linked inexorably in a chain, and now is always the only time we have to divert disaster.
~ Robin Hobb
You poison today's ease, reaching always for tomorrow.
~ Robin Hobb
War later is almost always better than war now.
~ Robin Hobb
Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?
~ Robin Williams
All Good Things Comes To He Who Waits
~ Lisa Jackson ~ Lost Souls
I was thinking what everyone is thinking all of the time: How can I make this last just a little bit longer?
~ Lisa Lutz
For he had acquired a lore in his youth which taught him ever to avoid the aged when merry plans were afoot; for the aged would come with their wisdom and slowness of thought, and other plans would be made, and there would be, at least, delay.
~ Lord Dunsany
do it later. Guilt still gnawed on
~ Lorena McCourtney
be home for quite a while yet.
~ Lorena McCourtney
Love delayed is lust augmented.
~ Louis de Bernieres
Not until months afterwards did Jo understand how she had the strength of mind to hold fast to the resolution she had made when she decided she did not love her boy, and never could. It was very hard to do, but she did it, knowing the delay was both useless and cruel.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Not until months afterward did Jo understand how she had the strength of mind to hold fast to the resolution she had made when she decided that she did not love her boy, and never could. It was very hard to do, but she did it, knowing that delay was both useless and cruel.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Pierpont wanted to follow him, but he held back, awaiting word of Junius's plans.
~ Ron Chernow
The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.
~ John Piper
To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.
~ Joseph de Maistre
Things that are impossible just take longer.
~ Ian Hickson
Success is hastened or delayed by one's habits. It is not your passing inspirations or brilliant ideas so much as your everyday mental habits that control your life.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
When it comes to success, it will come when it comes. A delay does not mean a denial.
~ Les Brown
Impatience never commanded success.
~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Success is hastened or delayed by one's habits.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
~ Nadine Gordimer, Get a Life
However anxious one is to reach one's goal, one can excuse delays on the route when these are caused by ovations.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Delay only increases the sorrow of parting.
~ Alexandre Dumas