“If not now, when? If not you, who?”

Hillel the Elder

Explore This Quote Further

Quote by Hillel the Elder: “If not now, when? If not you, who?” - Image 1

Similar quotes

“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?”


“Let not where you come from stop you from where you must go.”


“When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?”


“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?”


“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?”


“Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.”