William Congreve Quotes

No time like the present

You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come.

Time and tide wait for no man.

The future started yesterday, and we're already late.

Everyone who is taken by death asks for more time, while everyone who still has time makes excuses for procrastination.

Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live.

To-day is the parent of to-morrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future.

Be wise to-day; 't is madness to defer.

Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.

If you plan to face tomorrow, do it soon.

We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?

There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we must do that which is of greatest importance. Let us not procrastinate those things which matter most.

Tomorrow never comes.

In all your dealings, remember that today is your opportunity; tomorrow some other fellow's.

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

Tomorrow is no man's gift.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

The illness, and the untimely death of my brothers, has made me conscious of the fact that - rather than just think about it - it's crucial that you do today what you want to do.

Time goes on. So whatever you're going to do, do it. Do it now. Don't wait.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

I don't think I'm going to live until I'm 70, no; I could die tomorrow. So there isn't a panic that time is running out, but there is an element that anything could happen.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow may be for us and it may not.

You'll have time to rest when you're dead.