Quotes About Time

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.

We possess nothing certainly except the past

Tis long ere time can mitigate your grief; To wisdom fly, she quickly brings relief.

I have always known that at last I would take this road, but yesterday I did not know that it would be today.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find someone's hand and squeeze it, while there's still time.

Time perfects all living beings as well as kills them; it alone is awake when all others are asleep. Time is insurmountable.

Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials.

No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.

Land of Heart's Desire Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.

My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.

I studied adab for thirty years and I studied knowledge for twenty years.

Prosperity isn't defined by money alone; it encompasses time, love, success, joy, comfort, beauty, and wisdom.

Act quickly, think slowly.

God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.

If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?

Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time.

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation. I never yet talked to the man who wanted to save time who could tell me what he was going to do with the time he saved.

The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.

To have time for what is valuable, you have to stop giving time to what isn't.

Will you love me in December as you do in May?

I'm trying to grow older with wisdom.