Henri Cartier-Bresson Quotes

If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentence you'll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go You can never wipe off the tears of woe.

When the time comes in which one could, the time has passed in which one can.

He who will not when he may, may not when he will.

This moment and this chance, they are the same, and they are mine if I choose them,and I do. I want them. Now and as long as I can have them they are both precious and fleeting and gone in the blink of an eye, don't waste them. A moment and an opportunity and a life, all in the unseen tick of a clock holding me nowhere. My heart is beating. The walls are pale and quiet. I am surviving.

It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment.

Remember, there is no perfect time for anything. There is only now.

If you wait for perfect conditions to seize an opportunity, you'll be waiting till the day you die.

There’s only two times in life, there’s now and there’s too late.

Miss not the occasion; by the forelock take that subtle power, the never-halting time.

Deliberando saepe perit occasio [The opportunity often slips away while we deliberate on it].

You better lose yourself in the music, the moment You own it, you better never let it go You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo

It is all very well to be cautious, but if we are too cautious we will miss our opportunity.

He that will not whan he may,Whan he would, he shall haue nay.

A wise man who has the moment in his hand should not let that moment slip.

It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.

What's your hurry?" Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia.

I don't know whether this is the best of times or the worst of times, but I assure you it's the only time you've got. You can either sit on your expletive deleted or pick a daisy.

People permit life to slide past them like a deft pickpocket, their purse-not yet missed and now too late-in his hand.

Sometimes you don’t get a second chance. You need to take a chance when you have the opportunity. Always.

That was the one thing she knew now. Some chances came and went, and if you missed them, you could spend the rest of your life standing alone, waiting for an opportunity that had already passed you by.

It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.

When opportunity comes it is too late to prepare.

If I never have anything from him except this one moment I am going to take it. Take it now, or drown in regret later.

When Fortune comes, seize her in front with a sure hand, because behind she is bald.

Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.