English Proverb or Saying Quotes

Don't wish for someone else to do later what you can do now.

There comes a time where delay, to get a slightly better decision, is worse than action to get a pretty good decision.

There's a saying I remember from my grandmother: One today is worth two tomorrows.

While the grasse groweth the horse starveth.

Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.

The time to begin most things is ten years ago.

No time like the present

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.

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

Tomorrow never comes.

Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.

The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

Tomorrow is no place to place your better days.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

All urgent calls he shall hear at once, but never put off; for when postponed, they will prove too hard or impossible to accomplish.

Time drinketh up the essence of every great and noble action which ought to be performed, and which is delayed in the execution.

Tomorrow will be too late, it's now or never.

Live now. Procrastinate later.

No man ever served God by doing things tomorrow.

At this rate, we'll never get to the future.

All we have is here and now. That's why procrastination feels so right. Procrastination isn't the problem, it's the solution.

But dreams move on, if you wait too long.

You've got work to do. Don't put this off. And don't take the long view, here. You know? Life is today and tomorrow and - and if you're lucky, next week.

If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're pissing all over today.