Delay Brings Danger

Don Quixote says, "Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it" (in Don Quixote, Part 1, Book 4, Chap 2). I am wondering if this is true. Been wondering around the big smoke all day now waiting for adventure, seeking it out, standing ready...but nothing...will this quest come to nought? Anyone out there? Anything out there, or are we sinking further into the belly of this beast called life, never to reappear?