Quotes about Delay
I have spent probably years of time waiting in studio lounges - waiting on a mix, waiting on my time to sing, waiting on, waiting on, waiting on. That's just the nature of life.
- Amy Grant
If I'd been older I would've asked what it was right away, but I didn't because I wanted to postpone the moment when I would know what it was. In stories I'd read, I'd come across the words nameless dread. They'd just been words then, but now that's exactly what I felt.
- Margaret Atwood
Just because something is good doesn't mean we should pursue it right now. We have to remember that the right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing.
- Joshua Harris
Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.
- Charles Dickens
Late is the first step to never.
- Seth Godin
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- St. Augustine
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
- St. Augustine
I decided a long time ago but sometimes it takes you 40 years to get around to doing something - and that's the truthful answer.
- Dustin Hoffman
Patience, my friend, patience! You will find in time that it has everything to do with it.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
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
By and by never comes.
- St. Augustine
A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.
- Mark Twain