170 Lateness Quotes

Following is our list of lateness quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about before it's too late.

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It is too late to spare when all is spent — Irish Proverbs

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

It is not too late. It is never too late. — Brianna Wiest

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

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

There's no such thing as 'too late!' That's why they invented death! — Walter Matthau

It's never too late to start. It's always too late to wait. — Jeff Olson

If you see a bandwagon, it's too late. — James Goldsmith

It's too late to fall in love with Sharon Tate / But it's too soon to ask me for the words I want carved on my tomb. — Jim Carroll

Hell is Truth Seen Too Late. - Thomas Hobbes

Hell is Truth Seen Too Late. — Thomas Hobbes

It is never too late to be wise. — Daniel Defoe

Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. — Ivan Turgenev

It's never too late to change your luck — Diplo

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late. — Agatha Christie

It's never too late -- never too late to start over, never too late to be happy. — Jane Fonda

That's the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back. — Bill Bryson

Short Lateness Quotes

  • It is never too late to be what you might have been. — George Eliot
  • Better three hours too soon than a minute too late. — William Shakespeare
  • Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open. — Alexander Graham Bell
  • God is never late, we're just impatient. — LeCrae
  • If you don't have the balls to brake late, that's your problem. — Lewis Hamilton
  • When you're dying of thirst it's too late to think about digging a well. — Japanese Proverbs
  • Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day. — Franz Liszt
  • Courage, my friend, it's not too late to make the world a better place. — Tommy Douglas
  • The second best decision in time is infinitely better than the perfect decision too late. — Omar N. Bradley
  • You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lateness Image Quotes

The idea is to die young as late as possible. - Ashley Montagu quote

The idea is to die young as late as possible. — Ashley Montagu

Looks like you've been missing a lot of work lately. - Bob Porter quote

Looks like you've been missing a lot of work lately. — Bob Porter

Come, butterfly It's late- We've miles to go together. - Matsuo Basho quote

Come, butterfly It's late- We've miles to go together. — Matsuo Basho

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences. - Robert Louis Stevenson quote

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early. - Charles Lamb quote

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early. — Charles Lamb

I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky. - Sharon Olds quote

I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky. — Sharon Olds

I'm a late-night guy. - Dane Cook quote

I'm a late-night guy. — Dane Cook

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex. - Katharine Hepburn quote

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex. — Katharine Hepburn

Lateness quote For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're
For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and, if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

Its Too Late Quotes

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

I don't do regrets. Regrets are pointless. It's too late for regrets. You've already done it, haven't you? You've lived your life. No point wishing you could change it. — Lemmy Kilmister

Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do. — Byron Katie

Lateness quote I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love and a little drunk.
I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love and a little drunk.

There is no more ridiculous custom than the one that makes you express sympathy once and for all on a given day to a person whose sorrow will endure as long as his life. Such grief, felt in such a way is always present, it is never too late to talk about it, never repetitious to mention it again. — Marcel Proust

Love is all a matter of timing. It's no good meeting the right person too soon or too late. — Wong Kar-wai

A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late. — Frank Sinatra

Lateness quote When opportunity comes, it is too late to prepare.
When opportunity comes, it is too late to prepare.

I want to get a vending machine, with fun sized candy bars, and the glass in front is a magnifying glass. You'll be mad, but it will be too late. — Mitch Hedberg

It is never too late to become reasonable and wise. — Immanuel Kant

If you're driving down a highway at fifty-five miles per hour and suddenly see a squirrel a few meters in front of you, it's too late for you to do anything about it, because you've already run it over! Your consciousness lives in the past. — Max Tegmark

You are still young, free.. Do yourself a favor. Before it's too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Before It's Too Late Quotes

The Mother's knowledge of unity, her powers of sensitivity, humility, and balance, and her infinite respect for the miracle of all life have now to be invoked by each of us and practiced if the 'masculine' rational imbalance of our civilization is to be righted before its too late. — Andrew Harvey

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

Make sure you tell the people you love that you love them. Loudly and often. You never know when it might be too late. — Tom Hiddleston

Lateness quote It's better to be late, than to arrive ugly
It's better to be late, than to arrive ugly

I got the message. All of us get the message, sooner or later. If you get it before it's too late or before you're too old, you'll pull through all right. — Nat King Cole

Got a proper job at 28. Gave it up to try comedy at 38. Decided to get fit and healthy at 48. It's never too late. But do it now — Ricky Gervais

Before it's too late, we need to make courageous choices that will recreate a strong alliance between man and Earth. We need a decisive 'yes' to care for creation and a strong commitment to reverse those trends that risk making the situation of decay irreversible. — Pope Benedict XVI

Lateness quote Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late.
Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late.

I have been dating someone that treats my heart like it's monkey meat. I feel like a delusional, invisible person half the time so I need to learn what it's like to be treated well before it's too late for me. — Hannah

Nokia and Research in Motion needed a modern operating system. They could have bought Palm or Android before Google did, but they didn't. Today, it's probably too late, and at the time they would have been criticized for overpaying, but as they say - shift happens. — Marc Andreessen

I'm also very fond of a light business jet, so I'd like to get it before it's too late. — Morgan Freeman

There is this sweet spot in time when we have an opportunity to stop killing sharks and tunas and swordfish and other wildlife in the sea before it's too late. — Sylvia Earle

Nothing Is Too Late Quotes

Nothing is too late to mend. — Thai Proverbs

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life. — Jean-Paul Sartre

There is nothing like the first hot days of spring when the gardener stops wondering if it's too soon to plant the dahlias and starts wondering if it's too late. — Henry Mitchell

Lateness quote It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.
It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.

Everything harmonizes with me, which is harmonious to thee, o Universe. Nothing for me is too early or too late, which is in due time for thee. — Marcus Aurelius

Hurry is a manifestation of fear; he who fears not has plenty of time. If you at with perfect faith in your own perceptions of truth, you will never be too late or too early; and nothing will go wrong. — Wallace D. Wattles

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday. — Marcus Aurelius

Lateness quote It is never too late to follow your dream.
It is never too late to follow your dream.

My trainer don't tell me nothing between rounds. I don't allow him to. I fight the fight. All I want to know is did I win the round. It's too late for advice. — Muhammad Ali

I love going out dancing. There is nothing better than letting your hair down and staying up far too late, is there? — Liberty Ross

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. — Pliny The Elder

All that is harmony for you, my Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time for you is too early or too late for me. Everything is fruit to me that your seasons bring, Nature. All things come of you, have their being in you, and return to you. — Marcus Aurelius

It's Too Late Quotes

It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s forgotten. — Anna Wintour

I'm too short to host a late-night talk show. It's like the bar at an amusement-park ride. You have to be six foot two or over. — Jon Stewart

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something. - Carl Sandburg

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something. — Carl Sandburg

Lateness quote It's never too late to do nothing at all.
It's never too late to do nothing at all.

My father used to say that it's never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, 'You never know what you can accomplish until you try.' — Michael Jordan

If my story stands for anything, it's that change isn't just possible, it's our mandate. And it's never too late. — Rich Roll

He's like a drug for you, Bella. I see that you can't live without him now. It's too late. But I would have been healthier for you. Not a drug; I would have been the air, the sun. — Stephenie Meyer

Lateness quote When a thing is done, advice comes too late.
When a thing is done, advice comes too late.

I have a motto: it's never too late to give up. It's never too late to give up what you are doing, and start doing what you realise you love. — Hans Rosling

Don't wait until there is tragedy in your life. Don't wait until you lose somebody. Don't wait until it's too late. Appreciate the beautiful people that you have in your life now. — Katie Piper

Falling in love is like eating mushrooms, you never know if it's the real thing until it's too late. — Bill Ballance

The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late. — Seymour Cray

Never Too Late Quotes

Never too old, never too bad, never too late, never too sick to start from scratch once again. — Bikram Choudhury

I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut. — Mark Haddon

The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late. — Seymoure Cray

Lateness quote It is never too late to be what you might have been
It is never too late to be what you might have been

The sad truth is that too many people delay gratification for too long, or indefinitely. They put off what they want to do until it’s too late, saving money for experiences they will never enjoy. — Bill Perkins

The path you take is up to you. Make good choices, dream BIG, it is never too late. — Chris Herren

It is never too late to go quietly to our lakes, rivers, oceans, even our small streams, and say to the sea gulls, the great blue herons, the bald eagles, the salmon, that we are sorry. — Brenda Peterson

Lateness quote Always remember it's better to arrive late than to arrive ugly.
Always remember it's better to arrive late than to arrive ugly.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

One of the wonderful things about being ALIVE is that it's never too late. — Phyllis A. Whitney

It’s never too late to start eating well. A good diet can reverse many of those conditions as well. In short: change the way you eat and you can transform your health for the better. — T. Colin Campbell

And, more importantly, reach for the stars. And realize that it is never too late – not now, not ever – for you to pursue your passion, your pursuit of perfection. And most importantly, your perseverance for making it happen. — Debbi Fields

It's Never Too Late Quotes

I've always loved butterflies, because they remind us that it's never too late to transform ourselves. — Drew Barrymore

It's never too late to have a happy childhood, and age only matters if you're a cheese. — Rick Steves

It's never too late to have a happy childhood. — Wayne Dyer

It's never too late for a coffee. After all it's morning somewhere in the world. — Zooey Deschanel

You're always better off if you quit smoking; it's never too late. — Loni Anderson

It’s never too late to do the right thing. — Nicholas Sparks

For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

I just want to show the world it's never too late to get your diploma, and show kids they should stay in school and not wait until you're old to get it. — Flavor Flav

It's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

It's never too late to start the day over. — Michael Franti

It's Not Too Late Quotes

The words are all gone, the time's been too long but it's not too late to say I'm sorry to a friend — Edwin McCain

It's not too late at all. You just don't yet know what you are capable of. — Mahatma Gandhi

you are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out it's own secret — Rainer Maria Rilke

It's not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people. — Morrie Schwartz

If it's not too late, make it a cheese-burger — Lyle Lovett

Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do. Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it. Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others. Don't assume that it's too late to get involved. — Mitch Albom

It's never too late - not now, not ever - for you to pursue your passion. — Debbi Fields

I love not rushing the process. Mind doesn't shift until it does, and when it does shift, it's right on time, not one second too late or too soon. People are like seeds waiting to sprout. We can't be pushed ahead of our own understanding. — Byron Katie

I've been thinking about that a lot too lately, These Days. I think it's becasue I grew up in retail, in costumer service. I grew up having to talk to everybody, having to sell to everybody so now that I can just sell me, it's fun. It's not even a sale, it's really just me being me. — Ab-Soul

Sebastian [ Vettel] can also learn to be more laid-back. It's never too late to learn. He's got some way to go. He's young and will turn out well. I'm not worried about that. He'll raise the bar ever higher. — Niki Lauda

Before Its Too Late Quotes

But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late! — Samuel Beckett

Every man must be made to realize that further retreat is impossible. He must realize with his mind and heart that this is a matter of life and death of the Soviet state, of the life and death of the people of our country...the Nazi troops must be stopped now, before it is too late. — Leonid Brezhnev

We must treat water as if it were the most precious thing in the world, the most valuable natural resource. Be economical with water! Don't waste it! We still have time to do something about this problem before it is too late. — Mikhail Gorbachev

White people, wake up before it is too late. Do you want Negroes working beside you, your wife and your daughters, in your mills and factories? Frank Graham favors mingling of the races. — Jesse Helms

Let us do something, while we have the chance! ... Let us make the most of it, before it is too late! Let us represent worthily for one the foul brood to which a cruel fate consigned us! — Samuel Beckett

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late. — Thomas Sowell

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late. — Pearl S. Buck

In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have consumed, and we have not been enlarged by the feasts but only diminished. — Pico Iyer

You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them. — Charles Kettering

We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me. — Charles Dickens

Too Late To Realize Quotes

When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can't eat money. — Alanis Obomsawin

In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone. — Bill Gates

Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life- and it was you. It is not too late to find that person again. — Robert Breault

If I'd understood back then that a guy could be in love with another one, it would have happened. But I didn't come to that realization for a few more years and then it was too late for Jimmy and me. — Sal Mineo

It's terrible to realize that you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die; and, then it's too late. — Edna Ferber

Try to be "good", you'll be judged. Try to be yourself, you'll be criticized. Therefore, choose the second option. Evil uses the "nice good people" as puppets. It appears dressed as a poor guy, telling them that he needs help...When these people realize they have been used, it is already too late. — Paulo Coelho

Maybe the most real thing the end. To realize when it's too late. — Peter Heller

'Life has meaning and we grown-ups know what it is' is the universal lie that everyone is supposed to believe. Once you become an adult and you realize that's not true, it's too late. — Muriel Barbery

Many people realize their hearts desires late in life. Continue learning, never stop striving and keep your curiosity sharp, and you will never become too old to appreciate life. — Unknown

Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life- and it was you. It is not too late to find that person again. — Robert Brault

Too Little Too Late Quotes

I am very glad, Anderson, that secretary Clinton discovered religion on this issue but it's a little bit too late. Secretary Clinton supported virtually every one of the disastrous trade agreements written by corporate America. — Bernie Sanders

The President has apologized for his activities with Monica Lewinsky. These were too little, too late, in my opinion. — Barbara Cubin

The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours. — William Wordsworth

There's a fine line between eccentrics and geniuses. If you're a little ahead of your time, you're an eccentric, and if you're too late, you're a failure, but if you hit it right on the head, you're a genius. — Thomas Watson, Jr.

It's a little too late. I'm a little too gone. A little too tired of just hanging on. — Wiz Khalifa

Once the attacks occur, as we learned on Sept. 11, it is too late. It makes little sense to deprive ourselves of an important, and legal, means to detect and prevent terrorist attacks while we are still in the middle of a fight to the death with al Qaeda. — John Yoo

Oh dear me - it's too late to do anything but accept you and love you - but when you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said "hush" just once! — Mrs. Patrick Campbell

You’ve got to be crazy! It’s too late to be sane, too late. You’ve got to go full tilt bozo... ‘Cause you’re only given a little spark of madness... and if you lose that, you’re nothing — Robin Williams

God alone created marriage. Adam slept through the entire ceremony. Eve came in late. It seems to me men are still sleeping through marriage, and women are still coming to their senses a little too late. God alone performed that ceremony, and He alone can hold it together. — Beth Moore

I never meant to call you Mudblood, it just-" Lily: "Slipped out? It’s too late. I’ve made excuses for you for years. None of my friends can understand why I even talk to you. You and your precious little Death Eater friends ... You’ve chosen your way, I’ve chosen mine. — J. K. Rowling

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More Lateness Quotes

The hardest lesson of my life has come to me late. It is that a nation can win freedom without its people becoming free. — Joshua Nkomo

Safe sex is great sex, better wear a latex, cause you don't want that late text, that 'I think I'm late' text. — Lil Wayne

I write a lot of my best music in the car, like late night. Three, four in the morning. I'm in the passenger seat, I got my driver, my getaway driver. My Bonnie, I'm Clyde. That's when everything is just settled. In the daytime it's chaotic. Everybody just goin' nowhere fast. In a rush to go nowhere. — Kevin Gates

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon? — Dr. Seuss

Don't you quit. You keep walking, you keep trying, there is help and happiness ahead. Some blessings come soon. Some come late. Some don't come until heaven. But for those who embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ, they come. It will be alright in the end. Trust God and believe in Good Things to Come. — Jeffrey R. Holland

Safe sex, safe music, safe clothing, safe hair spray, safe ozone layer. Too late! Everything that's been achieved in the history of mankind has been achieved by not being safe. — Lemmy Kilmister

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night. — Marie Corelli

The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can whistle. It doesn't seem like there's anything happening like that. — Merle Haggard

It is never late to ask yourself “Am I ready to change my life, am I ready to change myself?”. However old we are, whatever we went through, it is always possible to reborn. If each day is a copy of the last one, what a pity! Every breath is a chance to reborn. But to reborn into a new life, you have to die before dying. — Shams Tabrizi

I’m not good-looking. I used to be, but not anymore. Not like Robert Taylor. What I have got is I have character in my face. It’s taken an awful lot of late nights and drinking to put it there. When I go to work in a picture, I say, ‘Don’t take the lines out of my face. Leave them there.’ — Humphrey Bogart

There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my dove, my dear; She is coming, my life, my fate; The red rose cries, "She is near, she is near;" And the white rose weeps, "She is late;" The larkspur listens, "I hear; I hear;" And the lily whispers, "I wait." — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested. — Hunter S. Thompson

We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there "is" such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and postive action. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Hungry is a word that I've been analyzing here of late. It's not hunger that drives me, it's not hunger that needs to drive our football team. Hunger and thirst are things that can be quenched. We have to be a driven group, we have to seek greatness. — Mike Tomlin

Inspection with the aim of finding the bad ones and throwing them out is too late, ineffective, and costly. Quality comes not from inspection but from improvement of the process. — W. Edwards Deming

He would use amphetamines to stay awake because he would have late night maneuvers that would go way into the early morning hours and he was given pills to stay up for the long hours. — Priscilla Presley

If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late. — Henny Youngman

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