#Urgency Quotes

“A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!”

“Haste is needful in a desperate case.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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”

“Postpone not your life.”

“The stations of uncensored expression are closing down; the lights are going out; but there is still time for those to whom freedom and parliamentary government mean something, to consult together. Let me, then, speak in truth and earnestness while time remains.”

“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.”

“Danger gathers upon our path. We cannot afford - we have no right - to look back. We must look forward”

“Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!”

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

“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."”

“Excitement must lead to immediate action or you will lose the power of momentum. More dreams die because we fail to seize the moment. Do it now!”

“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.”

“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.”

“The only question is whether you’re going to do it today or tomorrow. If you keep saying you’re going to do it tomorrow,you’ll never do it. You have to get on it today.”

“A life of fulfillment is one in which we put urgency in its place and remember that the ultimate target is to spend our lives doing the things we believe are most important to us.”

“Why wait to be memorable?”

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

“There is a time for silence. There is a time for waiting you turn. But if you know how you feel and you so clearly know what you need to say you'll know it. I don't think you should wait. I think you should speak now.”

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

“Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose.”

“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.”

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.”

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

“You knew the sweetness of now, now, TONIGHT! who cares for tomorrow, tomorrow is nothing, yesterday is over and done, tonight live, tonight!”

“When your dawn theater sounds to clear your sinuses: don't delay. Jump. Those voices may be gone before you hit the shower to align your wits. Speed is everything. The 90-mph dash to your machine is a sure cure for life rampant and death most real. Make haste to live. Oh, God, yes. Live. And write. With great haste.”

“If not us, who? And if not now, when?”

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

“Who loses a day loses life.”

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

“Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.”

“If this was the last day of your life, would you spend it the way you're spending today?”

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

“All of us have been dying, hour by hour, since the moment we were born. Realizing this, let all things be placed in their proper perspective. . . . Remember, it is always later than you think.”

“I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.”

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

“Act now, for now is all you have.”

“There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.”

“To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.”

“I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids.”

“Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.”

“Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.”

“I will live this day as if it is my last”

“Already, it is later than you think for your earthly life at best, is only a blink of an eye between two eternities.”

“Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all.”

“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.”

“No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!”

“I will act now. I will act now. I will act now.”

“A right delayed is a right denied.”