Better late than never” is an ancient proverb with a deep hidden meaning. Time and again all of us are told to complete the tasks assigned to us on time and being lazy most of us fail to do any assigned work on time. The result is we completely avoid the work and stop doing it further. Yes it is essential to finish a work on time but what is more important is finishing the work. Here comes the significance of the proverb “better late than never” which means that it is all right to be late in completing an activity than never doing it. What is essential is doing the work. This proverb can be best explained with the example of the story of the rabbit and the tortoise. Once upon a time, a rabbit and a tortoise decided to compete for a race. The rabbit laughed at the tortoise for even thinking about competing with him and therefore he was confident that he will win. They started the race and the rabbit started running. After a few miles, he turned back and saw that the tortoise was completely out of sight. He thought that the tortoise can never win the race and since it was out of his sight, he decided to take a nap. While he was sleeping the tortoise surpassed him and won the race. Because of the ability of running fast, the rabbit was obviously going to win. But the tortoise very well knew the importance of the phrase “better late than never” and thus it started competing slowly, but steadily and thus won the race.