Delayed Decisions Quotes

If you don't make a decision then time will make it for you and time will always side against you!

half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow.

When you face a problem, solve it then and there if you have the facts necessary to make a decision. Don't keep putting off decisions.

He marries best who puts it off until it is too late.

I put second things first, and then worry about first things.

There are books on our shelves we haven't read and doubtless never will, that each of us has probably put to one side in the belief that we will read them later on, perhaps even in another life.

Too many times we stand aside, and let the waters slip away. Til what we put off til tomorrow has now become today.

Next time!' In what calendar are kept the records of those next times which never come?

There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards: they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.

Postponed is not abandoned.

We all know of people who thought they could to it (whatever “it” is) tomorrow. We have all procrastinated on such a way, and often to our personal regret. It happens time and again, putting off things that we convince ourselves might be better, more meaningful, more appropriate for another time. So often that better time either never comes or really isn’t better or more appropriate after all. And then, sadly, the window of opportunity -to do something great- closes.

The things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision twice as difficult as it originally was.

I've got to that stage in my life where, difficult decisions I don't have to make, I push them into the future until such time I have to make them.

Every day, every week without taking decisions is a problem for us, is a very wrong message for the markets and increases the lack of credibility of our economies.

If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided. More often it is a crisis invited.

The people we keep standing in the anteroom of our favor either start fermenting or turn sour.

When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.

We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.

By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there's no more future left for them.