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Motivational Delay Quotes

May these quotes about Delay inspire and motivate you.

Delay is preferable to error.
- Thomas Jefferson

Ambition is like love,
impatient both of delays and rivals.
- The Buddha

A right delayed is a right denied.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

There are no right answers to wrong questions.
- Ursula K. Le Guin


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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is no "right", there is no "wrong" -
there are only points of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- Carl Jung


 

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain

Ordinary people seem not to realize
that those who really apply themselves
in the right way to philosophy
are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death.
- Socrates

Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford

What is, is right.
- Alexander Pope

The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau

The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff

We can always choose to perceive things differently.
You can focus on what's wrong in your life,
or you can focus on what's right.
- Marianne Williamson

The right to do something doesn't mean that doing it is right.
- William Safire

On life's journey, faith is nourishment,
virtuous deeds are a shelter,
wisdom is the light by day
and right mindfulness is the protection by night.
If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.
- The Buddha

Whatever you do, you need courage.
Whatever course you decide upon,
there is always someone to tell you
that you are wrong.
There are always difficulties arising
that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am not interested in power for power's sake,
but I'm interested in power that is moral,
that is right and that is good.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Sometimes it is better to lose
and do the right thing
than to win and do the wrong thing.
- Tony Blair

Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov

Whether you think you can,
or think you can't,
you're right.
- Henry Ford

No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual,
you have an obligation to be one.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

You only live once, and once is enough
if you play your cards right.
- the movie Interiors (1978)

When people get caught up with that which is right
and they are willing to sacrifice for it,
there is no stopping point short of victory.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker

The time is always right to do what is right.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Confidence comes not from always being right
but from not fearing to be wrong.
- Peter T. Mcintyre

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears,
when benevolence is lost right conduct appears,
when right conduct is lost, expedience appears.
Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth;
it is the beginning of disorder.
- Lao Tzu

It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
- Abraham Lincoln

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller

Walk on road, hmmm?
Walk left side, safe. Walk right side, safe.
Walk middle, sooner or later get squish just like grape.
Here, karate, same thing.
Either you karate do "yes" or karate do "no."
You karate do "guess so," squish just like grape. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right,
than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill

It is a fine thing to be honest,
but it is also very important to be right.
- Winston Churchill

We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela

Let reason trump tradition and the opinions of others,
but let your own sense of what is Right trump even reason.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind.
The time is always right to do the right thing.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
- Napoleon Hill

If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden

Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker

To have a right to do a thing
is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus

It's not the situation that's causing your stress,
it's your thoughts,
and you can change that right here and now.
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now.
Peace is a choice,
and it has nothing to do with
what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky

We all have a social mask, right?
We put it on, we go out, put our
best foot forward, our best image.
But behind that social mask is a personal truth,
what we really, really believe
about who we are and what we're capable of.
- Phil McGraw

If you think you can,
or you think you can't,
you're probably right.
- Henry Ford

It is not desirable to cultivate
a respect for the law,
so much as for the right.
- Henry David Thoreau

You only live once -
but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis

Let's have faith that right makes might;
and in that faith let us, to the end,
dare to do our duty as we understand it.
- Abraham Lincoln

Nothing can stop the man with the right
mental attitude from achieving his goal;
nothing on earth can help the man
with the wrong mental attitude.
- Thomas Jefferson

Would you rather be right or happy?
- A Course in Miracles

Courage is not always about action,
and it doesn't always involve danger,
but courage is always doing what is right.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do what you feel in your heart to be right.
You'll be criticized anyway.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller

Is freedom anything else than the right
to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- Epictetus

I follow my intuition,
and it leads me along the Right Path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When I eventually met Mr. Right
I had no idea that his first name was Always.
- Rita Rudner

Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want.
It is the belief that God will do what is right.
- Max Lucado

Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago?
Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy
on account of most of them?
Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?
- Dale Carnegie

Always aim high, work hard, and care deeply
about what you believe in.
When you stumble, keep faith.
When you're knocked down, get right back up.
And never listen to anyone who says
you can't or shouldn't go on.
- Hilary Clinton

Stand with anybody that stands right,
stand with him while he is right
and part with him when he goes wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln

Still, things could be a lot worse.
Oh, that's right... I'm falling to my death. Guess they can't.
- the movie Megamind (2010)

Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing.
You don't win once in a while,
you don't do things right once in a while,
you do them right all the time.
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
- Vince Lombardi

The proper office of a friend is to side with you
when you are in the wrong.
Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
- Mark Twain

To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the wedding cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up.
- Ogden Nash

EVERYONE has the right to make an ass out of themselves.
- Harold and Maude (The movie )

Do you prefer that you be right or happy?
- A Course in Miracles

The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung

To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono


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