Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.

You've got to make haste while it's still light of day.

I think the biggest problem we have is taking too long over things. Not in terms of getting it right, but sometimes we do things quickly that are really good.

In delay there lies no plenty.

Be quick without hurrying.

If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well. It were done quickly.

Business is business, that is, you must do everything promptly; delay and shuffling won't do.

One should make his decisions within the space of seven breaths.

The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important and give in to the urgent.

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.

Be quick but do not hurry.

Shun delays, they breed remorse;Take thy time while time is lent thee;Creeping snails have weakest force,Fly their fault lest thou repent thee.Good is best when soonest wrought,Linger'd labours come to nought.

Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it.

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.

Life is so short that it is not wise to take roundabout ways, nor can we spend much time in waiting.... We have not got half-way to dawn yet.

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

You have all the time in the world, but don't waste a moment.

The criterion of action is that todays work should not be deferred till the following day.

Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.

Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

Better start rushing before the rush begins!

Don't take too long, Mrs. Cullen

Eat that frog! If you have to eat 3 frogs, eat the biggest and uggliest one first.

We're burnin' daylight!