Quotes About Delay

Too late... everything's always too late.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

No por mucho madrugar amanece más temprano [Dawn comes no sooner for the early riser].

If you're too lazy to start anything, you may get a reputation for patience.

The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown.

And do not say, regarding anything, "I am going to do that tomorrow," but only, "If God will."

Good things come to those who bait.

Plant carrots in January and you'll never have to eat carrots.

When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time.

Someday I will learn to stop procrastinating, but today is not that day.

There are no thanks for a kindness, which has been delayed.

The bookseller said it's in two parts, and this is the first. I thought that next year, if we keep saving, we can get the second—

I am quite gifted at waiting.

was kept waiting in an anteroom and was admitted only after a long delay.

he waited for one load of passengers to get off and another to get on, he would never see the

Well . . . I can come back in twenty years, if you like.

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.

I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.

Academia does not provide many opportunities for immediate gratification. You work for two years on a project, it takes two more years to get it published, and then you start hoping someone might read it.

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

I was supposed to be adopted when I was five, but then my adoption was pushed back by two years.

Sadly, I'm one of those people who emotionally puts things off and then gets caught very blindsided at the end.

If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.