Richard L. Evans Quotes

What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.

Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we must do that which is of greatest importance. Let us not procrastinate those things which matter most.

Whatever can be done another day can be done today.

There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

Do it now. Not next week. Not tomorrow. Not later this afternoon. Now.

Delay is not our friend. Delay is our enemy.

He that will not whan he may,Whan he would, he shall haue nay.

Learn to differentiate between what is truly important and what can be dealt with at another time.

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

Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all

No man ever served God by doing things tomorrow.

Goals help you keep in perspective what's really important so you don't spend all of your time doing what seems urgent.

The future started yesterday, and we're already late.

If you are facing a difficult task don’t put it off. If you do it will just keep tormenting you.

Don't just put it off and think about it!

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

The best time to do something significant is between yesterday and tomorrow.

We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words ‘Too Late’.

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.