Quotes About Urgency

The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion.

Delay not to seize the hour!

Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.

We don't have enough time to premeditate all our actions.

Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

I expect to pass though this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

There's no use in doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, who am I for? And if not now, when?

I don't want it good. I want it Tuesday.

If you're on your way to meet your maker, you are not, are you, going to stop en route for a foot-long tuna sub?

It's always difficult, when you have such a quick turnaround and a long flight, to try to get ready for a game so quickly.

You don't ease off until your horses are saddled and on the track. Until then, I'm like a snapping turtle. I snap at almost everybody with impatience.

I'm turning 58, and you get that kind of weird, old-guy feeling of you don't have an infinite number of years left and if there's anything you want to say or represent, it's time to try it.

Bold words and bolder deeds are what we want. Awake, awake, great ones! The world is burning with misery. Can you sleep?

Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets, for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.

A great moment of clarity when I realized I'm dying. There's no reason to wait to do the things we want to do.

I've heard doctors say that before the crisis hits, people don't want prolonged measures, but then in the middle of the crisis they want everything.

If you want something done, ask. If you want something done quickly, ask, and then begin counting down from ten with no explanation.

Everything is about to disappear. You've got to hurry up if you still want to see things.

You realize that we only have so much time, and whatever you want to do in life, you need to do it now. There's no time to wait.

Why did you destroy Manny's office, then?" "I--can't breathe--" "That is the point of choking you," I pointed out. "Haste, please, if you want to live." -Cassiel

What's purple mean?" Adrian put his hand on the door. "Gotta go, Sage. Dont want to keep Dorothy waiting

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

**** it, holler them across.