Florence Scovel Shinn Quotes

Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.

While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.

When you are under time pressure for a decision, you need to follow intuition.

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds.

If you are not ready today, you will be even less so tomorrow.

Tomorrow is always the sluggard's working day; today is his holiday

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

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

To help [people] understand that what you shortcut today, cannot be made up tomorrow. So it's like, I'm not going to do anything today, and I'm going to do the wrong thing today and somehow tomorrow it will get a lot better."

Too many times we stand aside, and let the waters slip away. Til what we put off til tomorrow has now become today.

if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.

I said to myself, 'If you don't sit down to it today, when will you ever sit down to it?'

He who prorogues the honesty of today till to-morrow will probably prorogue his to-morrows to eternity.

My head is buried in the sands of tomorrow, while my tail feathers are singed by the hot sun of today.

Do today what you want for your tomorrows

What is it that makes us suppose that we can more easily do twice tomorrow what we didn't do once today!

I never think of things rationally or intellectually. I swear, every single decision I make is just instinct and my instincts tend to be accurate.

Delay not till tomorrow to be wise; tomorrow's sun to thee may neve rise.

Let us save the tomorrows for work.

Don't put things off till it's too late. You are the DJ of your fate.

That's always the way in life: the longer you leave things, the harder they are to do.

Your life~the way it looks today is a result of your choices...What will you choose today for your tomorrows?

There are many fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is yours is the present.

Most people spend their entire lives on a fantasy island called 'Someday I'll.'