Andre Maurois Quotes

Better a good decision quickly than the best decision too late.

The second best decision in time is infinitely better than the perfect decision too late.

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

The value of actions lies in their timing.

Nothing is of greater importance in time of war than in knowing how to make the best use of a fair opportunity when it is offered.

Or is there no such thing as 'too late'? Is there only 'late' and is 'late' always better than 'never'? I don't know.

If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well. It were done quickly.

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

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

It is no matter what you teach them first, any more than what leg you shall put into your breeches first. You may stand disputing which is best to put in first, but in the mean time your breech is bare. Sir, while you are considering which of two things you should teach your child first, another boy has learned them both.

If you wait until you are ready, it is almost certainly too late.

I think the biggest problem we have is taking too long over things. Not in terms of getting it right, but sometimes we do things quickly that are really good.

It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.

Unfortunately the trick to great execution is to say no a lot.

If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.

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

Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.

Rest assured, for every piece of business the most businesslike thing is to choose the right moment.

If there is something that you have to do, resist the temptation to do it under duress. Ask yourself, "What's the worst thing that would happen if I didn't do this?" And if you can get away with not doing it at all, don't do it. And then imagine what would it feel like to have this done. Spend a day or two, if you can, just 15 minutes here, 5 minutes here, 2 minutes here, here and here, imagining it completed in a way that pleases you! And then, the next time you decide that you're going to take action about it, the action is going to be a whole lot easier.

And of all glad words of prose or rhyme, The gladdest are Act while there yet is time

He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation.

He who puts off nothing till tomorrow has done a great deal.

Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation.

You've got to make haste while it's still light of day.