Quotes About Urgency

We did not lack modesty—on the contrary—but something urgently drove us to defy modesty together as immodestly as possible.

Come quickly. You mustn't miss the dawn. It will never be just like this again.

If you are drowning in a sewer, your first concern might be that you are drowning, not how vile you smell.

Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

Seize the hour.

The clock upbraids me with the waste of time.

We shall never have more time. We have, and have always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until to-morrow. Keep going. ... Concentrate on something useful.

Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party.

There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent. Flamed desires, impassioned, unwearied insistence delight heaven. God would have His children incorrigibly in earnest and persistently bold in their efforts. Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls. Our whole being must be in our praying.

Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat, not to count the times, but to gain the prayer. We cannot quit praying because heart and soul are in it. We pray "with all perseverance." We hang to our prayers because by them we live. We press our pleas because we must have them, or die.

There is a time for all things; a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times have passed away; there is a time to fight, and that time has come!

Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.

Now is the only time we own; give, love, toil with a will. And place no faith in tomorrow, for the clock may then be still.

The word "now" is like a bomb thrown through the window, and it ticks.

You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.

Do not manage as if you had ten thousand years before you. Look you, death stands at your elbow; make the most of your minute, and be good for something while it is in your power.

And if not now, when?

We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always urgent, "here and now," without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.

You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.

Our latest moment is always our supreme moment. Five minutes delay in dinner now is more important than a great sorrow ten years gone.

Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Tomorrow life is too late: live today.