Richard Baxter Quotes

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

A little too late, is much too late.

The right decision is the wrong decision if it's made too late.

You may delay, but time will not.

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

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

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

There's no wrong time to make the right decision.

Those who stand at the threshold of life always waiting for the right time to change are like the man who stands at the bank of a river waiting for the water to pass so he can cross on dry land.

Do it now. Not next week. Not tomorrow. Not later this afternoon. Now.

It is better to start doing what one has to late than not at all.

History punishes those who come too late.

Sometimes it is better to delay.

The less you want to do about something, the more you have to talk about it

Don't be so foolish as to ask for more time: calamities will not wait.

To delay action until there Is one hundred percent certainty Is always to postpone political action forever.

Postponed is not abandoned.

Sometimes inaction is worse than action.

If you are waiting for this thing that might happen tomorrow, it probably will never happen. You need to activate it now! No one else is going to do it for you, and ten years are going to go by before you even know it.

If you fight you might lose, if you don't you have already lost.

The interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?

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

If we wait until we're ready, we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives.

Postponing action is only postponing achievement.