Delay Quotes

Do not delay your happiness, be glad in the moment.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The first thing you need to know in order to properly measure your time is that you must not delay.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Keep your promises and never be late in acting. Act right and do the right things at the right time.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Sometimes the only things preventing your dreams from becoming realities is the long time it is taking you to start.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

~ Simone De Beauvoir

Ensure you have done each day’s portion of the heavy responsibilities resting on you. Never delay your success!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Whatever you are waiting for won’t come to you, you have to go for it.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders should know how fast time runs and how faster they can beat it. Poor leaders run slowly till time overtakes them.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Perhaps the only reason why you worry in life, tarry your goals and bury your joy is that you are still bearing the untold story of you untouched, which seems to bang on the doors of your heart every time! Go and open the way, and fulfill your destiny!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A beautiful woman should always have at the back of her mind that her ravishing appearance is only an ephemeral quality. When she wakes up in the morning, looks into the mirror, and notices that something is fading away, she knows that the time is ripe for marriage. She should be careful of who she takes into her life because the union is gonna be everlasting.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The truth which has been spoken too late is more damaging than a lie.

~ Amit Kalantri

Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

There is no avoidance in delay.

~ Aeschylus

In life you’ll face difficulties that postpone some of your dreams. Regardless, life goes fast by reminding us youth is finite and old age is stable. So you mustn’t stop dreaming and running while your strength is yet tough.

~ Darmie O-Lujon

If hard work is the source of happiness, then we can conclude that the main job of procrastination is to delay that happiness for excuses to kill.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

...be as fast as Usain Bolt, the winner is the winner, even if he crawls like a crab, his destiny is unshakable.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Q: When is the perfect time? A: Who can say, but probably somewhere between haste and delay - and it's usually most wise to start today.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Don’t waste time waiting for opportunity to surface, it may never happen that way. Spend time to create one and many more will unfold in series!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Excuses will not take you far, they will take you out. The success of your many excuses doesn’t mean you will run away from the work. It means the work will run away from you!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You can’t win without being patient. You know why? Success comes when you value time by using it profitably. It comes over time, delay is not denial!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Decide to dream big dreams and make them happen. Never let procrastination and excuses squeeze your dreams to become small. Do it early and do it big!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Not now” easily grows to become “never”, You either do it now or lose it forever!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Where procrastination and excuses reign, success is highly missed than delayed. Opportunity they say comes but once. You must therefore be prepared to tap every good opportunity that appears on your way

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Be prepared before you begin. You save yourself from delay if you are fully prepared. Preparation sets you for excellence.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Don’t cluster tasks on your way. Some tasks would definitely have to be postponed to the next day. You can’t do all things in one day. You can’t chase two rabbits at the same time. Both will escape.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Now-people” are winners, they say “now” and they do it “now”! Do not delay.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Don't rush in order to have things done early. Be prepared before you set off. That's the rule. However, this does not mean that you keep delaying the time for beginning. You must begin by all means! Go, get prepared!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If you are a “now-person”, you reduce the time rate during which your success story is to be published; if you delay a bit, you are either prolonging the date of publishing or you are deleting it at all cost! Be a “now-person” and do it now!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A delay want is never denial.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Procrastination and excuses are sour spices that spoil the sweet taste of an effective work. They must hence, not be prompted under desire, partly because they are strictly time-stripping and also because they have no known essence.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The deed is nothing. It is the thought that breeds fear, and we achieve little by lingering.

~ Alan Garner

A delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is bad forever.

~ Shigeru Miyamoto

It is a sign of intellectual maturity to always crawl to conclusions.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Time is an excuse to delay.

~ Amitav Chowdhury

Urgency means paying the details the attention they deserve, with the respect they deserve, without delay.

~ Richie Norton

Time is an imp—a pesky, little, hellish troll that hastens the clock when I smile but then delays the passing of minutes when I frown.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

With life, the absolute truth can be postpone for a while, looking at the daily problems of life but cannot be avoided.

~ Roshan Sharma

Both positive and negative thinking are contagious.

~ Stephen Richards

The problem with procrastination is it’s been around since the beginning of time it seems.

~ Stephen Richards