Urgency Quotes

I don't think you should wait. I think you should speak now.

People say it takes 10 years to change your life. It's bullshit. It takes a moment, a second. But it may take you 10 years to get to the point of finally saying, "Enough."

We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there "is" such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and postive action.

The problem with waiting until tomorrow is that when it finally arrives, it is called today.

Travelers, it is late. Life's sun is going to set. During these brief days that you have strength, be quick and spare no effort of your wings

Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now.

Success requires both urgency and patience. Be urgent about making the effort, and patient about seeing the results.

If not now then when, if not me then who?

Act now, for now is all you have.

It is possible to depart from life at this moment. Have this thought in mind whenever you act, speak, or think.

If you are killing time, it's not murder. It's suicide.

The window is closing.

I think as an intelligent person you would agree that when you are teaching among oppressed people that they should be relieved of their oppression not 100 or 10 years from now, but right now, you're going to find your talk is going to fall upon sympathetic ears.

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

I don't have much patience for anyone who denies that this challenge is real.

Now that we are, as you say, 'in the same boat,' would it not be wise for us to have another conference ... and the sooner the better.

Climate change is one of the issues I worry most about because its impacts are enormous. But they're gradual, they're not immediate.

Your Honour, unless your Honour, without a moment's loss of time, makes sail for the nearest shore, this is a doomed ship, and her name is the Coffin!

If I go home and someone, and my child has blood running down her leg and someone tells me that a snake bit her, I'm going out and kill the snake. And when I find the snake, I'm not going to look and see if he has blood on his jaws.

I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.

Our patience is not infinite. We're not willing to let this go on forever.

I will live this day as if it is my last

The opportunity will not remain open indefinitely.

Generally you should act somewhere between P40 and P70, as I call it. Sometime after you have obtained 40 percent of all the information you are liable to get, start thinking in terms of making a decision. When you have about 70 percent of all the information, you probably ought to decide, because you may lose an opportunity in losing time.

If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.

The most important 'speed' issue is often not technical but cultural. It's convincing everyone that the company's survival depends on everyone moving as fast as possible.

We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us.

Good ideas have expiration dates. You need to act before they become dated, irrelevant or otherwise spoiled.

Justice too long delayed is justice denied.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

Who loses a day loses life.

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now.

Every day that goes by, I mean, if you don't react to Pearl Harbor for a week or two weeks or three weeks, you're behind in the war that you otherwise would have fought.

Life is so short that it is not wise to take roundabout ways, nor can we spend much time in waiting.... We have not got half-way to dawn yet.

One’s objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out and get it over. Your problem won’t improve with age.

You have a race problem that must be solved, or else you will alienate every non-white person on this earth within the next few years, or within the next few months.

In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.

Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques.

Those who are already feeling the effects of climate change don't have time to deny it - they're busy dealing with it.

We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words ‘Too Late’.

Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.

We are not going to keep the window open forever.

We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.

I feel that the time is always right to do what is right. Where progress for the Negro in America is concerned, there is a tragic misconception of time among whites. They seem to cherish a strange, irrational notion that something in the very flow of time will cure all ills.

We must press on then, in haste; not simply because every hour brings us nearer to death, but because even before then our powers of perception and comprehension begin to deteriorate.

Let's take the instant by the forward top;For we are old, and on our quick'st decreesThe inaudible and noiseless foot of TimeSteals ere we can effect them.

Do Something Now. If not you, who? If not here, where? If not now, when?

Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Cherish each hour of this day for it can NEVER return.

A right delayed is a right denied.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

We all have a short period of time on this earth-We probably only have the opportunity to do a few things really great and do them well. None of us has any idea how long we're going to be here nor do I, but my feeling is I've got to accomplish a lot of these things while I'm young.

Three simple words can describe the nature of the social revolution that is talking place and what Negroes really want. They are the words "all," "now," and "here."

The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.

Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.

Time is passing, ... We have to look at the reality of the situation and ... redouble our efforts and get on with it.

The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.

I mean, if we said right now, there's somebody in the next room who's dying, let's all go save their life, you know, everybody would just get up immediately and go get involved in that.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.