Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

I am very, very conscious of time. I always wear two watches. People ask me, 'Why do you do that?' Because I was late once, and it cost me a huge opportunity.

In delay there lies no plenty.

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

Even a correct decision is wrong when it was taken too late.

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

The right time is always right now.

The time to change was yesterday; the time to wake up is now.

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

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

The time is 'now' to do something - don't drag your feet.

do it now. There may be a law against it tomorrow.

If you defer investing your time and energy until you see that you need to, chances are it will already be too late.

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

Now is almost always the better choice. You never know about later.

Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.

We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait.

Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime.

Sooner or later. It had better be sooner. Later is like the horizon; it recedes as you approach.

When you have to do something, you have to do it. Putting it off only makes it worse. Believe me, I know.

Sometimes one makes a distinction between urgency and importance. And while disasters are urgent, the basically most important thing is education. And that's what gives it ultimately urgency too, because unless you do it now, this important thing gets again and again postponed.

Why cannot one always do, not only the right thing, but at the right time?

It's only too late if you don't start now.

And while I at length debate and beate the bush, There shall steppe in other men and catch the burdes.

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