Top 225 Too Late Quotes

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.
Epicurus
I think it’s never too late to learn – or it’s a lesson that’s good to continue learning – that you need to treat everyone on a set with respect.
Alison Brie
It may be too late for West Virginia to save itself from the ravages of Big Coal. But it’s not too late for America.
Jeff Goodell
These guys are playing checkers. I'm out here playing c

These guys are playing checkers. I’m out here playing chess. When they figure it out, it’s too late.
Max Holloway
To me, Ennis stands for the conservative side of America. He’s the biggest homophobe in the whole movie – culturally and psychologically – but by the time he admits his feelings, it’s too late.
Ang Lee
I heard about ‘GLOW,’ but I found out a little too late. I kind of made a run of getting a role training the actresses to show them how to wrestle.
Gail Kim
Apologizes are pointless, regrets come too late. What matters is you can move, on you can grow.
Kelsey Grammer
Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.
Mark Twain
It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.
Pearl S. Buck
There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.
Og Mandino
I love going out dancing. There is nothing better than letting your hair down and staying up far too late, is there?
Liberty Ross
I would rather stop too soon than too late.
Luc Besson
If we want our kids to learn about the true essence of life, we have to take time out of our busy schedule and teach them the values before it is too late.
Ravi Kishan
I don’t have a game plan. I never did, and it’s too late to have one even if I wanted to.
Diane Lane
Johnny Blaze was my character at OVW. I had all these fancy fire catchphrases: ‘Call the fire department,’ ‘Get your fire extinguishers out, ladies.’ ‘By the time you hear the thunder, it’s going to be too late because the lightning will have already struck.’ That was all my thing.
John Morrison
We are often too late with our brilliance. We are on time delay. The only instant gratification comes in the form of potato chips. The rest will find us by surprise somewhere down the road maybe as we sleep and dream of other things.
Richard Schiff
Books are so cheap and easy to get that people don’t bother stealing them, which is the essential rule of piracy that the music business learned much too late.
Tucker Max
I am doing my best to find it. I will find it before the public finds it. I will get out of it before it’s too late. The reason I will do that is because that’s what I’m paid to do.
Jim Cramer
The thought of someone I love getting sick and dying, and me never getting a chance to see them before it’s too late? That is truly my worst nightmare.
Danilo Gallinari
Is it too late to institute a leap year and mandate that the holidays fall on regular, convenient dates – so that Id al-Fitr will come, say, in the spring and Id al-Adha in early summer?
Sayed Kashua
If you say something in advance – if you describe a problem as it arises, people always turn on you because they don’t want to hear about it. But when it’s too late to do anything, they will then turn around and say that you were right. That’s human nature.
Roger Scruton
I’ve been on television since I was about 17. I had opportunities – one major opportunity I blew in my 20s. Once I started down this pathway, it was a case of not letting anyone stop me. Not my wife, not my family. It was getting too late to give it a small percentage. I had to give it one hundred percent.
Paul Eenhoorn
The time to worrying about flying is when you’re on the ground. When you’re up in the air, it’s too late. No point in worrying about it then.
Denzel Washington
What I learned, a little too late, was that the ‘traditional’ Martin Short target viewer weighs under 300 pounds. Unfortunately, I was on during daytime.
Martin Short
I don’t care about my legacy. It’s too late. My enemies will create it, and they’ll push it.
Roger Ailes
Black people dance well because we start early – there’s music being played everywhere. White people? They don’t start dancing until they get to college, and by then, it’s too late; the bottom don’t move with the top no matter how hard they try.
Tracy Morgan
A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it’s too late to let her know that he sees it.
William Dean Howells
Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.
Branch Rickey
A man doesn’t know what happiness is until he’s married. By then, it’s too late.
Frank Sinatra
Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself.
Shirley MacLaine
That’s one thing that I’ve always wanted: to make my own decisions and not to be pushed. That has happened in my career, and I wanted to leave football, not football to leave me. I wanted to enjoy it as much as I could and to leave it a little bit earlier than too late.
Xabi Alonso
I didn’t want the responsibility, I didn’t know how to handle the responsibility of speaking for the gay community. I always felt like I owed them a huge apology for coming out too late.
Sean Hayes
If you have been vaccinated for polio, mumps, measles, chicken pox, hepatitis, or rabies, it may be too late for you to stand your ethical ground: You have already benefited from fetal-tissue research. This is, after all, a practice that’s been legal since the 1930s.
Katha Pollitt
I get the headlines for being slick and different things like that – which is part of my game – but it’s just amazing to me that a lot of times, the people don’t see the other things that go on in that ring. But a lot of times, when my opponents figure it out, the fight is over. It’s too late.
Andre Ward
We are trying to motivate Christians everywhere with th

We are trying to motivate Christians everywhere with the love of Christ for the lost and to help them sense the urgency we must have to reach unbelievers everywhere, before it is too late for them.
Reinhard Bonnke
Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Jean-Paul Sartre
My goal as a novelist is to create smart entertainment, books that keep bright people up too late, that make them want to read just one more chapter. Books that have ideas threaded in amidst the thrilling bits, ideas that I hope linger even after people close the book.
Marcus Sakey
Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late.
Jean de la Bruyere
The youth are very important to me, they’re the next generation, but I want to instill in kids, even in playing, that it’s never too late and there’s no right or wrong way to do anything.
Sheila E.
We think till the last minute that nothing can happen to us. But cancer will grab you by surprise, and then it’s too late.
Manisha Koirala
You get to show that, sometimes, it’s not too late to do what many might’ve done decades before.
Daryn Kagan
When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
Oliver Goldsmith
There’s no such thing as too late. There are different roles for different ages, assuming an actress has something to offer. There aren’t many Helen Mirrens and Meryl Steeps, and it takes a lot of talent to get to that level. I hope I have it. That’s the model I aspire to if I’m lucky enough. It’s all about luck.
Ayelet Zurer
Springsteen’s ‘Thunder Road’ and Carole King’s ‘It’s Too Late’ are examples of why I am a singer/songwriter. I practice these songs every day. The melodies are timeless in the rock world, the lyrics are words that I need to say, and they need to be heard again.
Alice Ripley
Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
Andre Maurois
A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other… maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever.
Dave Matthews
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
William Shakespeare
If you wait for customers to tell you that you need to do something, you’re too late. Good business leaders should be half a step ahead of what customers want, i.e. they don’t actually quite know they want it. That’s what innovation’s about. With Plan A, we didn’t wait for the consumers to tell us.
Stuart Rose
It’s never too late to reclaim your inner diva and reclaim your inner strength.
Michelle Visage
I don’t think it’s too late for ‘The War of the Worlds’ to come true. I’m talking about it from the standpoint that which you need to have and own things – to breed, to think, to create – is going on everywhere, not just on this planet or in the space around it.
Dwight Schultz
Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.
Marcus Aurelius
Nokia and Research in Motion needed a modern operating system. They could have bought Palm or Android before Google did, but they didn’t. Today, it’s probably too late, and at the time they would have been criticized for overpaying, but as they say – shift happens.
Marc Andreessen
I don’t drink alcohol too late in the evening; I read a good book.
Michael Rosbash
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
Quintilian
I know someone young whose husband left her for another woman. He later came back and wanted to rekindle the relationship. It was too late. His ex-wife had found someone else. Good for her.
Alicia Villarreal
We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth – then it’s far too late when they pass away.
George Harrison
With ‘Batman,’ I actually had a really bad period when we started ‘Zero Year,’ right at the beginning, I just wasn’t taking care of myself at all. I was up too late all the time, I was working too hard. I wasn’t exercising.
Scott Snyder