“ To fight fear, act. To increase fear — wait, put off postpone. ”
- David J. Schwartz- Copy
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“ Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ You need a plan for everything, whether it's building a cathedral or a chicken coop. Without a plan, you'll postpone living until you're dead. ”
- John Goddard- Copy
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“ Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed. ”
- Kin Hubbard- Copy
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“ Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values. ”
- Joshua Loth Liebman- Copy
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“ It is foolish to postpone enjoyment of your ordinary life until you are more successful, more secure, or more loved than you are today. ”
- Timothy Ray Miller- Copy
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“ If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you. ”
- Paul Newman- Copy
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“ War connot be avoided; it can only be postponed to the others advantage. ”
- Niccolo Machiavelli- Copy
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“ There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantages of others. ”
- Niccolo Machiavelli- Copy
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“ Golf, like the measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious. ”
- P.G. Wodehouse- Copy
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“ Failure is only postponed success as long as courage "coaches" ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. ”
- Herbert Kaufman- Copy
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“ Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. ”
- Jim Rohn- Copy
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“ I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. ”
- Anais Nin- Copy
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“ Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed. ”
- Walt Whitman- Copy
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“ The critics were asking that we postpone consideration of the causes of poverty until no one was poor. ”
- John Kenneth Galbraith- Copy
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“ There are many find things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is surely yours is the present, hence this is the time to speak the word of appreciation and sympathy, to do the generous deed, to forgive the fault of a thoughtless friend, to sacrifice self a little more for others… ”
- Grenville Kleiser- Copy
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“ Women often postpone their lives, thinking that if they're not with a partner then it doesn't really count. They're still searching for their prince, in a way. And as much as we don't discuss that, because it's too embarrassing and too sad, I think it really does exist. ”
- Jane Campion- Copy
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“ Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm. ”
- Peter Drucker- Copy
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“ I had realized from the outset that vanity was a fatal affliction and that the only life worth adhering to, was one representing a journey of struggle in the service of exalted values and noble aims, one that recognizes that every living soul will meet its destined end, for which there always is a good account… ”
- King Hussein I- Copy
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“ The effects of our actions may be postponed but they are never lost. There is an inevitable reward for good deeds and an inescapable punishment for bad. Meditate upon this truth, and seek always to earn good wages from Destiny. ”
- Wu Ming Fu- Copy
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“ The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing when they follow in a herd, or when they cater for their establishment…A man should learn to detect and foster that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within far more than the luster of the whole firmament without… ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Maturity is achieved with a person accepts life as full of tension; when he does not torment himself with childish guilt feelings, but avoids tragic adult sins; when he postpones immediate pleasures for the sake of long-term values… Our generation must be inspired to search for that maturity which will manifest itself in the qualities of tenacity, dependability, co-operativeness and the inner drive to work and sacrifice for a nobler future of mankind. ”
- Joshua Loth Liebman- Copy
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“ For I say unto you in all sadness of conviction that to think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. Only when you have worked alone — when you have felt around you are a black gulf of solitude more isolating than that which surrounds the dying man, and in hope and despair have trusted to your own unshaken will — then only can you gain the secret isolated joy of the thinker, who knows that a hundred years after he is dead and forgotten men who have never heard of him will be moving to the measure of his thought — the subtle rapture of postponed power, which the world knows not because it has no external trappings, but which to his prophetic vision is more real than that which commands an army… ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.- Copy
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“ People who postpone happiness are like children who try chasing rainbows in an effort to find the pot of gold at the rainbow's end… Your life will never be fulfilled until you are happy here and now. ”
- Ken Keyes Jr.- Copy
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