Postponement: The father of failure.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

— Harry S Truman

For Trump, success always has a single father - himself. Failure has a hundred - everyone and anyone else. The media. The Democrats. The…

— George T. Conway III

A fictionalised memoir of my father would be a failure as a novel.

— Richard Flanagan

We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its urgency, 'here and now' without any possible…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Stop putting it off! Procrastination breeds guilt, guilt breeds depression, and depression breeds failure.

— Barbara Corcoran

Indecision is debilitating; it feeds upon itself; it is, one might almost say, habit-forming. Not only that, but it is contagious; it transmits itself…

— Anonymous

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“POSTHUMOUS POSTPONEMENT FACT: Unlike airplanes, many dreams take off after the pilot's departure Kamil Ali”

— Kamil Ali

One of the ideals [Margaret Thatcher] grew up with was self-denial and postponement of gratification, and yet she went about to create a greedy,…

— Hilary Mantel

“This isn't how sickness was in childhood. A postponement. An excuse to grow up.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Education itself is a putting off, a postponement; we are told to work hard to get good results. Why? So we can get a…

— Tom Hodgkinson

“The INEC postponement is an obnoxious odoriferous political crinkum-crankum aimed at exposing Nigerians to emotional hullabaloo.”

— Olawale Daniel

I had a mother who taught me there is no such thing as failure. It is just a temporary postponement of success.

— Buddy Ebsen

Being an adult is the ability to postpone a want for the sake of a family need.

— Chris Hogan

To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off. It is only a postponement of the real payment, a bribe paid for silence,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson