Quotes about Delay
A right delayed is a right denied.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
- Livy
To many, Heathrow in August is a paradigm of Hell.
- Paul Johnson
For he who can wait, everything comes in time.
- Francois Rabelais
Most of us need time to work through pain and loss. We can find all manner of reasons for postponing forgiveness. One of these reasons is waiting for the wrongdoers to repent before we forgive them. Yet such a delay causes us to forfeit the peace and happiness that could be ours.
- James Faust
Better never than late.
- George Bernard Shaw
Foulgrin: If you can keep Fletcher from saying a definitive no to a temptation, you've won. Whatever is not a no is merely a postponed yes. (advice to the tempter Squaltaint)
- Randy Alcorn
Delay. Procrastinate. Postpone. This is our evangelism strategy.
- Randy Alcorn
The loiterer often imputes delay to his more active friend.
- Aesop
Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it.
- Tertullian
Patience is a bitter plant that produces sweet fruit.
- Charles Swindoll
Everything comes if a man will only wait.
- Benjamin Disraeli