Quintilian Quotes

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

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

Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

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

While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.

He who hesitates is poor.

There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.

People who think too much before they act don't act too much.

The only risk we run is by doing nothing.

If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the 'right' thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It's like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.

If you temporize, you are lost.

Better reap two days too soon than one day too late

General McClellan argues indefinite procrastination.

If you wait until you have all the facts, then it will be too late..

While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.

The best time to do something significant is between yesterday and tomorrow.

"When are we going to get going?" Chris says. "What's your hurry?" I ask. "I just want to get going." "There's nothing up ahead that's any better than it is right here."

Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or think you can, begin it! Only engage, and then the mind grows heated; Begin it, and the work will be completed.

The time to begin most things is ten years ago.

of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.

Withholding a decision is a decision.

The time to hesitate is through.

It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.