Deferred Quotes

56 quotes by 46 authors

• Rewards for good service should not be deferred a single day. — Sun Tzu
• The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be better and cheaper… — Charles Dudley Warner
• A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred. — James Ellis
• The criterion of action is that todays work should not be deferred till the following day. — Umar
• A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last. — Joseph Fort Newton
• To wait so long/And want a man refined and strong/Is not at all uncommon. And yet to wait one hundred years/Without a tear, without a… — Charles Perrault
• Hope isn't destiny. Left passive its nothing more than disappointment deferred — Bill Willingham
• The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds. — Steven Rattner
• What is deferred is not avoided. — Thomas More
• Spend less than you make; always be saving something. Put it into a tax-deferred account. Over time, it will begin to amount to something. This… — Charlie Munger
• Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred. — Pico Iyer
• Though my mom had too many of her own dreams denied, deferred and destroyed, she instilled in me that I could have dreams. And not… — Chris Gardner
• Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? • • • • You think It's a happy beat? — Langston Hughes
• A truly great work of art breaks beyond the bounds of the period and culture in which it is created, so final judgement on a… — Madeleine L'Engle
• There's a dark underside to philanthropy. People who give a bunch of money are deferred to, even when they are wrong. The emperor cannot be… — Michael Eric Dyson
• I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage... What is at the summit… — Paula Giddings
• It follows that acceleration in the rate of change will result in an increasing need for reorganization. Reorganization is usually feared, because it means disturbance… — Niccolo Machiavelli
• Instead, the Nationals will pay Scherzer $15 million per season, but do so for 14 years; essentially, they’ve deferred half of each season’s salary seven… — Max Scherzer
• What happens to a dream deferred? — Langston Hughes
• Better hope deferred than none. — Samuel Beckett

Who Wrote These Deferred Quotes

46 authors contributed a total of 56 Deferred Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 6 Deferred Quotes by Langston Hughes
• 2 Deferred Quotes by Charlie Munger
• 2 Deferred Quotes by Niccolo Machiavelli
• 1 Deferred Quote by Emma Roberts
• 1 Deferred Quote by Pico Iyer
• 1 Deferred Quote by Bible
• 1 Deferred Quote by Chris Gardner
• 1 Deferred Quote by Kal Penn
• 1 Deferred Quote by John Bevere
• 1 Deferred Quote by Madeleine L'Engle
• 1 Deferred Quote by Winston Groom
• 1 Deferred Quote by Michael Eric Dyson
• 1 Deferred Quote by Paula Giddings
• 1 Deferred Quote by Max Scherzer
• 1 Deferred Quote by Samuel Beckett
• 1 Deferred Quote by Carol Gilligan
• 1 Deferred Quote by Diane Watson
• 1 Deferred Quote by Ben Marcus
• 1 Deferred Quote by Evan Bayh
• 1 Deferred Quote by Heather Donahue
• 1 Deferred Quote by Chuck Palahniuk
• 1 Deferred Quote by Arthur Laffer
• 1 Deferred Quote by Bill O'Reilly
• 1 Deferred Quote by Portia de Rossi
• 1 Deferred Quote by Charles Frazier