Quotes About Time

No great thing is created suddenly.

The way of progress is neither swift nor easy.

Slow motion gets you there faster.

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Who loses a day loses life.

If we only knew the real value of a day.

He who has lived a day has lived an age.

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of every day and hour.

A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty is worth a whole eternity in bondage.

Live mindful of how brief your life is.

Gladly accept the gifts of the present hour.

Everyone once, once only. Just once and no more. And we also once. Never again.

Most of us spend our lives as if we had another one in the bank.

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

You have got to own your days and live them, each one of them, every one of them, or else the years go right by and none of them belong to you.

Each day, each hour, an entire life.

The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.

Seize the hour.

Nothing in business is so valuable as time.

Possessions dwindle: I mourn their loss. But I mourn the loss of time much more, for anyone can save his purse, but none can win back lost time.

Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

All my possessions for a moment of time.