Quotes About Time

An inch of time on the sundial is worth more than a foot of jade.

Perhaps time's definition of coal is the diamond.

Time is a river rolling into nowhere. We must live while we can, and we'll drink our cup of laughter.

Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine.

Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.

Violet will be a good color for hair at just about the same time that brunette becomes a good color for flowers.

Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, 'what is the most valuable use of my time right now?'

It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.

We don't grow older, we grow riper.

His finest hour lasted a minute and a half.

All the money in the world doesn't mean a thing if you don't have time to enjoy it.

If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.

These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.

It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all.

I don't need time. What I need is a deadline!

Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes.

I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.

Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.

Nothing can be rushed. It must grow, it should grow of itself, and if the time ever comes for that work, then so much the better!