Urgency Quotes

“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“The life you have left is a gift. Cherish it. Enjoy it now, to the fullest. Do what matters, now.”
― Leo Babauta

“Would that thy love, beloved, had less trust in me, that it might be more anxious!”
― Héloïse, The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse

“Oh, sweet little boy, beloved little girl, you are so overwhelmed by life sometimes, I know, by the enormity of it all, by the vastness of the possibilities, by the myriad of perspectives available to you. You feel so pressed down sometimes, by all the unresolved questions, by all the information you are supposed to process and hold, by the urgency of things. You are overcome by powerful emotions, trying to make it all "work out" somehow, trying to get everything done "on time," trying to resolve things so fast, even trying not to try at all.
You are exhausted, sweet one, exhausted from all the trying and the not trying, and you are struggling to trust life again. It's all too much for the poor organism, isn't it? You are exhausted; you long to rest. And that is not a failing of yours, not a horrible mistake, but something wonderful to embrace!”
― Jeff Foster, The Way of Rest: Finding The Courage to Hold Everything in Love

“I worry that if we don’t act quickly, the delicate balance of nature will be lost.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“Yet human intelligence has another force, too: the sense of urgency that gives human smarts their drive. Perhaps our intelligence is not just ended by our mortality; to a great degree, it is our mortality.”
― Adam Gopnik

“Urgency and despair don't get along well.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Obelisk Gate

“You should be spreading the good word. You should be etching the good word onto the glass scanning beds of library photocopiers. You should be scraping the truth onto old auto parts and throwing them off bridges so that people digging in the mud in a million years will question the world, too. You should be carving eyeballs into tire treads and onto shoe soles so that your every trail speaks of thinking and faith and belief. You should be designing molecules that crystallize into poems of devotion. You should be making bar codes that print out truth, not lies. You shouldn't even throw away a piece of litter unless it has the truth stamped on it--a demand for people to reach a finer place!

...Your new life will be tinged with urgency, as though you're digging out the victims of an avalanche. If you're not spending every waking moment of your life living the truth, if you're not plotting every moment to boil the carcass of the old order, then you're wasting your day.”
― Douglas Coupland, Player One: What Is to Become of Us

“Though the urge to hurry was beginning to beat through my brain, I knew that was the one thing I couldn't do. Not of I wanted to save lives.”
― Keri Arthur, Full Moon Rising

“After the funeral, my life changed. I felt as if time were suddenly precious, water going down an open drain, and I could not move quickly enough.
No more playing music at half-empty night clubs. No more writing songs in my apartment, songs that no one would hear.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“Death is what gives our lives urgency, an awareness that time isn't infinite.”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights

“She hadn't signed on for this. She craved action. She wanted hard deadlines.”
― Duncan Ralston, How to Kill a Celebrity: a Novella

“Time always ran out for them. They’d spent years surviving on stolen moments.”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised

“Urgency never makes a good life, or a good death.”
― Adam McHugh

“Online privacy is not an abstract concept but a tangible right that demands our unwavering commitment. In a world where data is often commodified, the call to safeguard personal information becomes more urgent. It's about establishing a digital realm where individuals can traverse the internet without sacrificing the sovereignty of their personal identity.”
― James William Steven Parker

“I needed action, not words”
― Duncan Ralston, Where the Monsters Live

“Some people are so busy dealing with urgent matters that they fail to address the important ones.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, BECOME: Unleash the Power of Moral Character and Be Proud of the Life You Choose

“Be not rushed by the tide of life. Take life in sips and little portions.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Pour Like Rain

“Don't just answer to the name of a C.E.O. Answer also, to the pressing needs of your clients.”
― Utibe Samuel Mbom, Your Clients and You

“Give every task your whole heart today—the impact you shape begins now.”
― Farshad Asl

“Yeah shorten it. The original had an urgency that if you don’t practice creation time will run out.”
― Dustin Lee

“Yeah shorten it. The original had an urgency that if you don’t practice creation, time will run out.”
― Dustin Lee

“Yeah shorten it. The original had an urgency that if you don’t practice creation, time will run out.”
― Dustin Lee

“How bad are you?" she said.
"I am in something close to agony but we can talk about that later. Hurry now.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“Domine ad adjuvandum me festina, they sang.

O Lord, make haste to save me.

It was true, they felt that urgency now, the need to finally make things right, or as right as they could be. They had only so much time.”
― Stewart O'Nan, Evensong

“Jeff made a distressed sound deep in his throat. ‘I should be documenting this. Moments like this deserve documentation.’ He sighed, long and mournful. ‘But alas. I am tragically, catastrophically, unforgivably unable to write anything at all.”
― Belinda Kelderhouse, Summer Breeze: An Anthology of Summer Stories

“This is historic. This is generational,’ Dani said.
Leo stared at the collapsing rally with awe.
Jeff made a strangled noise. ‘I cannot document this either. I am missing everything.”
― Belinda Kelderhouse, Summer Breeze: An Anthology of Summer Stories

“The only way to avoid mistakes is to not do anything and that the final analysis is the ultimate mistake”
― Goh Keng Swee

“How common

the belief that each of us matters. How unfathomable the fact
that our urgent being ends.”
― Kathleen Graber, The River Twice: Poems

“There is humanity left on this planet
although it has been challenged
and is somewhat bedraggled,
and we are the ones who must know it and feel it
and save it.

Not just saving humanity, but saving
our humanity.

That, now, has become our purpose.”
― Shellen Lubin