Too Late Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Too Late Quotes from famous persons: Alok Nath, John Paulson, Seth Berkley, Shirley MacLaine, Oscar Wilde. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Too Late Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

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It's too late in life to reinvent myself. I am just rep

It’s too late in life to reinvent myself. I am just repackaging myself now.
2
The housing market has bottomed. It’s not too late to get involved.
3
Now, when you get a viral infection, what normally happens is it takes days or weeks for your body to fight back at full strength, and that might be too late. When you’re pre-immunized, what happens is you have forces in your body pre-trained to recognize and defeat specific foes. So that’s really how vaccines work.
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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.
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.
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Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.
7
‘Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Douglas Southall Freeman
8
Our world needs to move from managing crises to preventing them in the first place. Too often, the world responds too late and too little.
9
I don’t think I was a year too late or a year too early in retiring. If the Seahawks had been in the playoffs a year later, I might have had some regrets.
10
I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back.
Eli Whitney
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A number of major companies – from PepsiCo to Walmart to U.P.S. – have recognized that corporations have a responsibility to address the causes of climate change before it is too late. We do not have to wait for an international treaty or new regulations to act.
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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
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Once the attacks occur, as we learned on Sept. 11, it is too late. It makes little sense to deprive ourselves of an important, and legal, means to detect and prevent terrorist attacks while we are still in the middle of a fight to the death with al Qaeda.
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I never watched ‘The Godfather‘ and it seems too late now. The same happened with ‘The Sopranos,’ ‘The Wire‘ and ‘Peaky Blinders.’ I don’t know if they can be compared but they feel to me like they had a lot of male violence that I’m not massively into.
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It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
16
I’ve seen too many sunrises, as far as the walk of shame, staying out too late doing very bad things.
17
I only halfway paid attention in high school Spanish class, and it may be too late now to catch up, no matter how many levels of Rosetta Stone I order.
18
If you’re overbooked, you can’t manage pressing problems or even recognize they’re pressing until too late.
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It is a very brave choice to go against traditional medicine and embrace the alternative route. It’s easier to try the traditional route and then, if it fails, go to the alternatives, but often it can be too late.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, ‘What can we do, it’s too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.’ But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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Acting is always something I thought I could do, and I thought I would be pretty good at it, but I thought that I missed the opportunity, that it was too late.
Greg Poehler
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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.
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At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.
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There’s a part of me that wishes I’d never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there’s so much mileage in that. But it’s too late to stop now.
Richard Thompson
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If mountain gorillas are to survive and propagate, far more active conservation measures urgently need to be undertaken. The question remains, is it already too late?
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I don’t see this planet being… they’re talking about how they’re turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it’s already too late.
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I probably will not live to see Turkey become an exemplary democracy, but I pray that the downward authoritarian drift can be stopped before it is too late.
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My father was a doctor in Moravia, in the south of the country. There were a number of Jewish doctors in the hospital there, and at a certain pointalmost too late, really, but in time – they were all sent overseas by their employer.
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Massages are my favorite. Sometimes just getting myself outside for a walk if I’m really busy can be an indulgence. I love taking naps. I love to stay up too late with close friends. I believe in everything in moderation. I take what I like and leave what I don’t.
30
Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
31
It’s not too late actually to speak to somebody about psychology, it’s never too late.
32
I was much too late when I found out about my passion for motor racing. I was 18.
33
I don’t look back in hindsight. It’s too late.
34
They told me that the hotels had maybe two rooms set up for people with disabilities, but if they got there too late, and didn’t get one of these rooms, they couldn’t take a shower. The room wasn’t hooked up for them, or maybe the sink was too high.
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A lot of people you think you know you don’t know until you find out you don’t know then it may be too late to know.
Kenneth Clark
36
In Hollywood, you serve no wine before it’s time, give the haters no time to hate until it’s too late.
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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.
38
When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don’t want to marry too late. Around 31?
39
It’s never too late to be great.
40
I think if you play music and you join a scene you’re already too late.
41
So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it’s mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners eventually give up crime.
42
Right after the Six Day War, Arafat launched a series of guerrilla operations from East Jerusalem and the West Bank. Acting on a tip, Israeli soldiers stormed the house where he was based, minutes too late. They found his food still warm on the table.
43
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.
44
It’s too late for me to get married before I’m famous. You never know people’s intentions.
Carmelo Anthony
45
Like gods, we have created a new universe called cyberspace that contains great good and ominous evil. We do not know yet if this new dimension will produce more monsters than marvels, but it is too late to go back.
46
Everybody just uses the one-move rule without realising when it is too late to actually move and cross over and when it is actually being dangerous.
47
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
48
I don’t read reviews because by then it’s too late – whatever anyone says, the book won‘t change. It is written.
49
It’s not too late to stop the Lisbon Treaty.
50
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.
51
Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
52
The danger of leaving overwhelming wealth and power in the grasp of a small minority is a lesson that leaders such as ousted Tunisian president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak have learned a little too late, as the demonstrations across the Arab world indicate.
53
I don’t sleep too late.
54
It’s never too late to go out and get that feeling back.
55
In online learning environments, it is often hard to tell whether a student is struggling. By the time test scores are lagging, it’s often too late – the student has already quit.
56
My trainer don’t tell me nothing between rounds. I don’t allow him to. I fight the fight. All I want to know is did I win the round. It’s too late for advice.
57
It’s never too late to try authenticity.
58
I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it’s too late now, I’m afraid. Much, much too late.
Hoagy Carmichael
59
No one wants to know I set my alarm and get up 8, but I think it’s too weird to sleep in too late.
David Spade
60
Once colon cancer becomes symptomatic, nine times out of ten it is too late.
61
The Bible says today is the accepted time, today is the day of salvation… But there will come a time when it will be too late for you.
62
Golf is just for fun. I have no time to be a pro golfer, not even after F1. I think it’s too late and I’m too old to learn now. Golf is just a hobby and maybe I can improve a little bit more.
Heikki Kovalainen
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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
64
It’s too late for that – trying to second guess it. It’s over. I’m worried about how to get the kids through school and still write and practice law and take power of attorney.
65
I was born too late to have any temptation with communism, or at least Soviet-type communism. Travelling in Eastern Europe and the ex-Soviet Union, you clearly don’t want to defend a system that would have empty shops and a totalitarian regime and internal passports.
66
Never… never… whether you are five or 100, never give up. It’s never too late.
67
It’s never too late to do the right thing, and America deserves much better than either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton can offer us. I humbly offer myself as a leader who can give millions of disaffected Americans a conservative choice for president.
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There’s no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.
Charles Kingsley
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Is it ever too late for a sequel?
Gary Goetzman
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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
71
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.
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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
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I am, you know, really fighting for myself and my life. And I think the message that I could give to anybody is that it’s never too late to start your life again and dream new dreams.
74
I’d like to have all of my losses back. But it’s too late for that.
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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
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I was not awesome at dancing. For a ballerina, I probably started too late. Plus I enjoyed entertaining people too much.
77
After Trump became president, it was really too late to investigate his dodgy investments in Azerbaijan or his links to Russian money laundering. Those stories should have eliminated him from business, and from public life, long before 2016.
78
It’s just too late to ban all guns. There are 300 million. We should’ve done that after the Civil War – that’s when we should’ve taken away guns and defined what militias were. But we didn’t do it then, and we can’t now.
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We’re not uncomfortable with it, and we’ve already been through enough of the music business where I’m not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way – we’re already past saving, you know what I mean? It’s too late for us.
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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.
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During the work, you have to be sure that you haven‘t left any holes, that you’ve captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
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My message is that it’s never too late. If it’s something you want to do or if it’s important to you, go for it.
83
I watched zero NBA basketball growing up. It was available but it was too late and I had school.
84
Fortunately, it’s still not too late to develop a comprehensive global strategy to eliminate our real enemy.
David Hackworth
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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.
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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.
87
We do not ask the right questions when we are young, so we miss the important answers. Now it is too late to ask, too late for the illuminating answers, and the unanswered questions haunt us for a lifetime.
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It’s not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people.
Morrie Schwartz
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It doesn’t matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It’s never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves.
90
I was born too late to experience Apollo 11, though I do trek to Dad‘s house every time there’s some space event. There’s something awesome about crossing your fingers and watching a tense Mission Control room do their thing.
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Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it’s too late.
Rita Coolidge
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Apologizes are pointless, regrets come too late. What matters is you can move, on you can grow.
93
Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
94
There’s a lot of women out there, some of whom are my age who’ve never been married and some who have been married and would like to be married again but think their ship has sailed, and I’m like, ‘Oh no, honey, let Miss Niecy show you it is never too late for love!’
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It’s never too late to do anything new when it comes to music.
Sivamani
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The language ‘It’s too late’ is very unsuitable for most environmental issues. It’s too late for the dodo and for people who’ve starved to death already, but it’s not too late to prevent an even bigger crisis. The sooner we act on the environment, the better.
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I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.
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I was born too late and missed the dream of empire. Its shadow, the Commonwealth, coincides with my life but rarely connected with it.
99
I’m very grateful for the other bands and artists that stood up for us with a view to our induction – that’s nice of them. But I wish that the Hall Of Fame had had the discretion to ask us first. It’s now become a debate in which we are too late to have the final word.
100
Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.
Marcus Valerius Martial
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It’s never too late. Don’t focus on what was taken away. Find something to replace it, and acknowledge the blessing you have.
102
It was almost an accident that I got into basketball at all but fortunately it wasn’t too late and I was able to be a part of a great generation for the sport.
103
You can certainly make the case that we’re devolving, that it may already be too late to save the rain forests, let alone the planet.
104
In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.
105
By the time you get to college, it’s much too late because you haven’t had the math or science that you would need and, therefore, you’re not prepared to really study engineering.
Judith Love Cohen
106
Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it’s usually too late?
107
Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It’s too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts.
108
I don’t try to get all the meat off the bone. When I get a good figure, I just move something. Too many people try to hit the peak price, and they hold on until it is too late.
Kirk Kerkorian
109
I don’t always have the best eating habits. I like butter and ice cream. There are days when I should work out and I don’t. But it’s never too late to change old habits.
Florence Griffith Joyner
110
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.
111
I’m single, and I think that by the time I met someone – if I were ever to meet the right person, which I don’t think I will, because I am too fussy – my biological clock means that it will be too late.
112
I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought came too late: a man of letters has become too wordy to write economically for the stage.
113
It’s never too late – never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.
114
The sudden death of the leading man will cause change, making another man leader. Soon, but too late, the young man will attain high office. By land and sea, he will be feared.
115
We often joke about men moaning about being ill, whether it’s man flu or anything else. We want them to be silent and strong about these things. And that’s quite dangerous when it comes to depression, because talking about it helps. People bottle it up until it’s too late.
116
I deeply apologize to the customer forcibly removed and to all the customers aboard. No one should ever be mistreated this way. I want you to know that we take full responsibility, and we will work to make it right. It’s never too late to do the right thing.
117
I’ve been using the same ‘I Ching’ since I was teenager when it was given to me by a fellow teenager; it seems too late to change now. I don’t use it often, but when I do, it really does help. You can fool yourself, but not the ‘I Ching.’
118
Courage, my friends; ’tis not too late to build a better world.
Tommy Douglas
119
We are losing our country and the freedoms we have enjoyed. As Bible-believing Christians, we are the ones who must take action before it’s too late.
120
A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
121
With a disaster like global warming, it’s too late to worry about when it’s looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
122
There comes a point when you’re writing a novel when you’re in it so deep that the life of the novel becomes more real to you than life itself. You have to write your way out of it; once you’re there, it’s too late to abandon.
123
You reach a time… when fact and fiction blend seamlessly. If you do it too soon, it’s journalism. If you do it too late, you forget, and it’s fantasy. There’s an optimum time.
Frank D. Gilroy
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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.
125
Life teaches you that you need to make decisions in the right time – not too early, not too late.
126
My father used to say that it’s never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, ‘You never know what you can accomplish until you try.’
127
Truly saying sorry is never easy to do, and when you are, you just hope it’s not too late.
128
Yeah, the first contract I signed, that was the first time I realized, Oh man, never mind, I don’t want to do this anymore, but it was too late. I realized it was a bad thing because I wanted to try out for ‘American Idol‘ and all these different things couldn’t do that because I was in this contract.
129
I don’t care about my legacy. It’s too late. My enemies will create it, and they’ll push it.
130
If the world gets a lot hotter in a hurry and the primary aim is to cool it down, then the current plan of carbon mitigation will almost certainly not be effective. It’ll be too little, too late, and too optimistic – in large part because the atmospheric half-life of CO2 is roughly 100 years.
131
One of my great regrets, and I don’t have many, is that I spent too long putting people’s status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities. I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone’s name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.
132
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?
133
I’m on the list that I thought I’d never be on. I’m not sitting here thinking, ‘God, I might get this part’ or ‘is it too late for me to play Hamlet?’ It’s really about: who do I get to work with? There’s so many people on that list.
134
It is never too late to change the way you eat – once you do, your body will thank you with a longer and healthier life.
135
It’s never too late in life to have a genuine adventure.
136
It’s risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.
Marcel Achard
137
There’s not enough awareness about healthcare and people don’t realize the importance of getting a timely health check-up until it is too late.
138
Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
139
One of my great regrets, and I don’t have many, is that I spent too long putting people’s status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities. I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone’s name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.
140
I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I’d never be an astronaut.
141
When you are around 60, there are certain things that are completely terrifying. One of them is that you have made the wrong choices in life, and now it’s too late to do anything about them.
142
Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.
Marcus Valerius Martial
143
It’s never too late – in fiction or in life – to revise.
Nancy Thayer
144
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late.
Seymour Cray
145
There’s so much burying of heads in sand going on in the U.S., people are finally beginning to recognize that the environment is dying, but it’s far too late, and I am conflicted.
146
It is never too late to regain our credibility around the world.
147
Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes.
Marcus Valerius Martial
148
Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it’s too late to become a musician afterwards.
149
To be stuck with that Kardashian label, that was so hurtful to me and to my career. I probably realized that too late – not that it would’ve affected my decisions in terms of who I dated, but it would’ve affected my decision to appear on the show.
150
Obama is not the messiah any longer. He is now your standard, ordinary, everyday politician who lies, who breaks promises, who’s in it for himself, who can’t do anything on his own. He’s not qualified. All of this is becoming known, sadly, too late.
151
I never learned to ride a bicycle, and it is too late now. I never learned to drive. I never learned to swim.
Marlene Dumas
152
It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.
153
Popular as Keynesian fiscal policy may be, many economists are skeptical that it works. They argue that fine-tuning the economy is a virtually impossible task, and that fiscal-stimulus programs are usually too small, and arrive too late, to make a difference.
154
I always say I was born too late in the world, too old.
155
I pray that this council, which will probably be too late to save Iraq, will do what it can, which will be immeasurably strong in what it does in trying to save our democracy.