Dinah Maria Mulock Quotes

The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.

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 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 not me- who?, If not now- when?

The time to begin most things is ten years ago.

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

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

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

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

Time wears all his locks before,Take thy hold upon his forehead;When he flies he turns no more,And behind his scalp is naked.Works adjourn'd have many stays,Long demurs breed new delays.

You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions.

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 such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

Life teaches you that you need to make decisions in the right time - not too early, not too late.

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.

There is not only a right thing to do. There is a right time to do it.

doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate indecision!

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

If not now, then when ? If not you, then who ?

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