Too Late quotes
519 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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."
"It is never too late to become reasonable and wise."
"Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day."
"Very early in my life it was too late."
"It's not too late at all. You just don't yet know what you are capable of."
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"Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late."
"Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late."
"Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect."
"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!"
"It's not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people."
"All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty."
"It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late."
"Don't put things off till it's too late. You are the DJ of your fate."
"We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it's too late."
"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."
"Mozart died too late rather than too soon."
"Ah, Nothing is too late, till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate."
"For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be."
"Everything comes too late for those who only wait."
"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!"
"If you wait until you are ready, it is almost certainly too late."
"It's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be."
"It is never too late to be who you might have been. It is always possible"
"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."
"Now is the time. It is never too late to start something."
