"Indecision and delays are the parents of failure." — George Canning

"Indecision and delays are the parents of failure."

— George Canning

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16 Quotes by George Canning

George Canning has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.
A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own.
Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm.
I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.
In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are…
Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order; Bleak blows the blast-your…
So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides The Derby dilly, carrying three INSIDES.
Away with the cant of 'Measures not men!'-the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that…
Man, only - rash, refined, presumptuous man, Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan.
But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend!
There is nothing I know of so sublime as a fact.
If hush'd the loud whirlwind that ruffled the deep, The sky if no longer dark tempests deform; When our perils…

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More Delay Quotes

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay. — Simone de Beauvoir
All UK nuclear power stations should be shut down without delay. — James Buchan
Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it. — Miguel de Cervantes
The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight. — Natalie Clifford Barney
If a given scientist had not made a given discovery, someone else would have done so a little later. Johann… — Jean Rostand
Delay not to seize the hour! — Aeschylus
By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there's no more future left for them. — Roger L'Estrange
In delay there lies no plenty. — William Shakespeare
Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded. — Sandra Day O'Connor
Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary. — William Shakespeare
It is said that one should not hesitate to correct himself when he has made a mistake. If he corrects… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us… — A. J. Jacobs

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