Top 109 Postpone Quotes & Sayings

To fight fear, act. To increase fear - wait, put off postpone.

Being an adult is the ability to postpone a want for the sake of a family need.

The best way to deal with procrastination is to postpone it.

Postpone result/solution thinking until later; it's through connection that solutions materialize - empathy before education.

TV makes it so easy to postpone living for another half hour.

We do not postpone the participation of the lower classes of our people in the profits of economic enterprise, and in other countries, they do postpone it. In the long run, I think our policy is better, and we stand by it.

I checked my gear, my pockets, my shoelaces, and realized that I had crossed the line between making sure I was ready and trying to postpone the inevitable.

He does not however postpone making decisions.

belated maternity has had its compensations; small children have a habit of conferring persistent youth upon their parents, and by their eager vitality postpone the unenterprising cautions and timidities of middle age.

I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies.

When we unnecessarily elongate the process of "learning to read," we postpone "reading to learn learning itself - by years.

To postpone unpleasantness is human; to forget it is divine.

Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it.

Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?

He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not 'studying a profession', for he does not postpone his life, but lives already. He has not one chance, but a hundred chances.

The hope is that if we can increase youthfulness, we can postpone age-related diseases.

I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don't postpone your dreams.

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.

Happiness is something that you don't postpone. If you are postponing happiness - it is something you will probably never experience much of.

Always Postpone Meetings with Time-wasting Morons

The soundest strategy in war is to postpone operations until the moral disintegration of the enemy renders the delivery of the mortal blow both possible and easy.

People who postpone happiness are like children who try chasing rainbows in an effort to find the pot of gold at the rainbows end...Your life will never be fulfilled until you are happy here and now.

Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone until those smiling possibilities are dead... By neglecting the necessary concrete labor, by sparing ourselves the little daily tax, we are positively digging the graves of our higher possibilities.

Postpone not your life.

You can't postpone sorrow, so why would you postpone happiness?

It's one day at a time, that's all there is to it, and so I don't have to worry about it. All I do is, okay, I do not have to drink. And if I feel like it, I postpone it for ten minutes, and that way I find something else to do in the meantime.

Don't ever postpone things - that was very clear in our family.

The reconnection of society, economy and ethics is a project we cannot postpone.

Investing in living-wage jobs and reducing the inequities between local school districts would give young people more, not less, incentive to postpone childbearing and more possibilities for independence.

Death does not allow us to postpone all the things we can experience now.

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

If only I had more money is the easiest way to postpone the intense self-examination and decision-making necessary to create a life of enjoyment - now and not later.

You must avoid the investigation trap. You can't postpone tough decisions by studying them to death.

Nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia.

In view of the result of attained at the Washington Treaty which, my advisors believe, guarantee peace in the Pacific for some time to come, it is proposed to reduce the establishment of the navy and army, and postpone the expansion of the air force.

When I have spare time, I catch up on things I've had to postpone due to lack of time.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Immaturity means self-centeredness, inability to compromise, to rise above hurt feelings, to postpone immediate pleasures in favor of future benefits, or to do unpleasant chores when they need to be done.

What is the use of such terrible diligence as many tire themselves out with, if they always postpone their exchange of smiles with Beauty and Joy to cling to irksome duties and relations?

It's just a campy blast. I just want to do as little as I can and make it good, and try not to sell out. I'm sure I will, but I'm just trying to postpone it.

Face troubles from their birth, for 'tis too late to cure When long delay has given the evil strength. Haste then; postpone not to the coming hour: tomorrow He'll be less ready who's not ready now.

It is the denial of death that is partially responsible for people living empty, purposeless lives; for when you live as if you'll live forever, it becomes too easy to postpone the things you know that you must do.

The aim is to postpone frailty, postpone degenerative disease, debilitation and so on and thereby shorten the period at the end of life, which is passed in a decrepit or disabled state, while extending life as a whole.

Postpone joy, it will diminish. Postpone a problem, it will grow.

Lawyers-they get together all day and say to each other, "What can we postpone next?" The only thing they don't postpone, of course, is their bill, which arrives regularly. You've heard about the man who got the bill from his lawyer which said, "For crossing the street to speak to you and discovering it was not you, twelve dollars."

Since you're going to die anyway, why not go do whatever it is you are in the mood to do. To postpone anything is ridiculous, if it's important to you.

Age is the single largest risk factor for an enormous number of diseases. So if you can essentially postpone aging, then you can have beneficial effects on a whole wide range of disease.

If you have all the research, all the ground rules, all the directives, all the data - it doesn't mean the ad is written. Then you've got to close the door and write something - that is the moment of truth which we all try to postpone as long as possible.

Trips to the dentist - I like to postpone that kind of thing.

Why should we postpone our joy to another world? Let us get all we can of the good between the cradle and the grave, all that we can of the truly dramatic. If, when death comes, that is the end, we have at least made the best of this life.

If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.

Don't postpone your happiness until some perfect future date. Be happy now, tomorrow will take care of itself.

I have a tendency to postpone starting a piece until it's kicked around in my head a little bit.

We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.

When we postpone the harvest, the fruit rots, but when we postpone our problems, they keep on growing.

To ignore the Mussalman grievance as if it was not felt is to postpone Swaraj.

Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing, Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms, Strong and content I travel the open road.

Try as we might to postpone them, days of reckoning inevitably arrive.

Life is cruel. Why should the afterlife be any different? I offer you a choice. Join my crew...and postpone the judgment. One hundred years before the mast. Will ye serve?