"If you wait until you are ready, it is almost certainly too late."
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"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."
"It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today."
"Perhaps the final secret of the Illuminati is that you don’t know you're a member until it’s too late to get out."
"It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords."
"It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be."
"In life, you learn lessons. And sometimes you learn them the hard way. Sometimes you learn them too late."
"It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is almost innocent."
"Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late."
"It's never too late to be who you were meant to be."
"It's never too late for those whose time has come."
"It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper."
"It is never too late to learn what is always necessary to know."
"So I'll wait for you... And I'll burn Will I ever see your sweet return? Oh, will I ever learn? Oh, Lover, you should've come over Cause it's not too late."
"Hope I die before I turn into Pete Townshend. It would look ridiculous to do what we're doing now when I'm 40. That's why I want to destroy my career before it's too late."
"Climate change has happened because of human behaviour, therefore it’s only natural it should be us, human beings, to address this issue. It may not be too late if we take decisive actions today."
"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."