To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off. It is only a postponement of the real payment, a bribe paid… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Being an adult is the ability to postpone a want for the sake of a family need. — Chris Hogan Copy Share Image
I had a mother who taught me there is no such thing as failure. It is just a temporary postponement of success. — Buddy Ebsen Copy Share Image
Education itself is a putting off, a postponement; we are told to work hard to get good results. Why? So we can… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its urgency, 'here and now' without… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Stop putting it off! Procrastination breeds guilt, guilt breeds depression, and depression breeds failure. — Barbara Corcoran Copy Share Image
One of the ideals [Margaret Thatcher] grew up with was self-denial and postponement of gratification, and yet she went about to create… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“POSTHUMOUS POSTPONEMENT FACT: Unlike airplanes, many dreams take off after the pilot's departure Kamil Ali” — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
“Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Indecision is debilitating; it feeds upon itself; it is, one might almost say, habit-forming. Not only that, but it is contagious; it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let us remember that postponement of tapering is only that-a postponementLet's not lose the chance, the warning that we have been given,… — Raghuram Rajan Copy Share Image
Buddha says this is how one should be - no desire, because all desires are futile. They are about the future; life… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Genuine goodness isn’t discovered through postponement but must exist now or not at all. It cannot be based on what is not.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Chamberlain's visit to Hitler today may bring things to a head or may result in a temporary postponement of what looks to… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Nobody is responsible for your sorrows and poverty, not even the devil. It is the work of the enemies of time that… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Looking after children can be a subtle way of giving up... They become the whole ones, the well ones, the postponement of… — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
Mortality: not acquittal but a series of postponements is what we hope for. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Thus, true long-term change is brought about not by destructive passion of the moment but by well-reasoned constructive action. Violent shock of… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
The larger loneliness of our lives evolves from our unwillingness to spend ourselves, stir ourselves. We are always damping down our inner… — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Action cures fear. Indecision, postponement, on the other hand, fuel fear. — David J. Schwartz Copy Share Image
People who are not enjoying their lives in the present have lust for life in the future. Lust for life is always… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The child begins life as a pleasure-seeking animal; his infantile personality is organized around his own appetites and his own body. In… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies. When they fail to come off its clergy simply say… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Ever since man began to till the soil and learned not to eat the seed grain but to plant it and wait… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image