no time like the present
Seize this moment
No time like the present urges immediate action rather than delay—the present moment is the best opportunity to do something.
Usually offered as encouragement or gentle pressure: You've been meaning to call her for weeks. No time like the present.
The phrase implies that waiting gains nothing and may cost opportunity.
- momentBrief period of time
- actionProcess of doing
- make it happenCause something to occur
- act nowUrgent call to proceed
- nowThe present moment
time · instant · carpe diem · initiative · take the plunge · resolve · courage · impermanence · decisiveness · seize the day · transience · opportunity · golden opportunity · today · spontaneity · mindfulness · promptness · immediacy
- time sayingstime flies, time is money, time heals all wounds, time will tell, carpe diem
- Urgency phrasesact now, take action, act fast, now or never, seize the day
no time like the presentall in good time
Patience brings results
maybe later · not now · some other time · put it off · wait and see
no time like the presentprocrastination
Habitual task avoidance
drag one's feet · kick the can down the road · dilly-dally · hem and haw · sleep on it
no time like the presentpatience is a virtue
all in good time · haste makes waste · slow and steady wins the race · Rome wasn't built in a day · patience
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