Quotes About Urgency

Just follow me and run like your life depends on it. Because it does.

It is notorious that the desire to live increases as life itself shortens.

This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.

I live my life with a sense of urgency that most people cant comprehend.

Call immediately. Time is running out. We both need to do something monstrous before we die.

My life has been a series of emergencies.

Don't let the urgent take the place of the important in your life... When you and I were putting out the fires of the urgent, the important was again left in a holding pattern.

Postpone not your life.

Death is promised. So what do you do with your life? How do you make the most of it? How do you make your voice the loudest?

No matter how organized your ducks are, life can turn on 2 seconds. So, you can't keep on waiting. Because, if you keep on waiting, it's gone.

Mortality means you don't have forever to work things out. You can live your life unexamined but then on the last day you're going to think: 'I've left things a little late.

If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.

This is the only leadership life I get, my one and only shot at following God the way I feel him prompting me to do so. This isn't some pre-game warm-up. It's the game, and the clock is ticking!

The only thing that has to be finished by next Tuesday is next Monday.

My good man, could we have one deadly issue to deal with at a time?

It's do or die. D-day.

And then he's kissing me; his mouth is urgent against mine, like he's searching for some sort of reassurance, some kind of promise only I can give.

Hear me out, just for a minute. Please. I'm begging you." He sounded strangled and hoarse.

Everyone is in a hurry; they all have plans and places to be.

Some Jews saw walls being built around the ghetto and thought they still had time. Don't be fooled by everyone else's calm. Get out even when nobody is even considering it yet. When you look at 2060, southern Argentina might be a good place for your children since it's close to the Antarctic peninsula, the place where the survivor colonies will be built. …

Sri Ramakrishna said, Do not seek illumination unless you seek it as a man whose hair is on fire seeks a pond.

There would be hell to pay (or purgatory to rent, at a minimum) if I did not act fast.

In such haste was she and so impatient of delay that you would fancy her on the eve of her departure. As she was always ready, death could not find her unprepared.

Even after all these years, I am not tired of reading, thinking and writing about this time and the stories people told, and did not tell themselves. I still haven't explored all its corners. I don't know everything. These days, I feel its conflicts and parables running beside us with a particular urgency, crashing over contemporary questions of immigration, religion, and climate change, swirling around our political leaders, demanding: Look at me.