Quotes About Time

French essayist Michel Eyquem de Montaigne wrote, "The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet live very little.

Most people tend to underestimate the time it takes to achieve something of value, but to be successful, you have to be willing to pay your dues. James Watt spent twenty years laboring to perfect his steam engine. William Harvey labored night and day for eight years to prove how blood circulated in the human body. And it took another twenty-five years for the medical profession to acknowledge he was right.

Focusing on the destination is not a good idea. Tomorrow may come; it may not. The only place we really have any power is in the present.

PUT FIRST THINGS FIRST TODAY AND NEGLECT THINGS THAT DON'T REALLY MATTER.

Procrastination is the fertilizer that makes difficulties grow.

Hurry, hurry, hurry," she said, for it was dark then, and she knew that we are bound, one to another, in licentious benevolence for only a single day, and that day was nearly over.

He might have been compared to a summer's day, particularly the last hours of one.

Oh, God, you bore me this morning," my wife said. "I've been bored for the last six years," I said. I took a cab to the airport and an afternoon plane back to the city. We had been married twelve years and had been lovers for two years before our marriage, making a total of fourteen years in all that we had been together, and I never saw her again.

since these are hours and days out of one's life, can there be any other course but to look back into them, even though at times they seem like waste?

WE TRAVEL with such velocity these days that the most we can do is to remember a few place names. The freight of metaphysical speculation will have to catch up with us by slow train, if it catches up with us at all.

Only an obsessional procrastinator would cry, 'Let's run for our lives, but not till Wednesday afternoon.' Back

It is easier to do trivial things that are urgent, than it is to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking.

The general principle is this: the bigger the leap, the longer the creative period is likely to be.

Sorry this is such a long letter, but I didn't have time to write a shorter one.

It is not often given to human beings to be able to treat a fragment of time that can never return again with the intense and ritualistic concentration appropriate to a moment irretrievably slipping away into an everlasting impossibility of repetition.

Wolf Solent was able to indulge in such an orgy of concentrated thought, that these three or four hours lengthened themselves out into something beyond all human measurement.

First, I had time, but no money; then I had money, but no time. Finally, I had time and money, but no health to make use of my wealth.

They say all good things come to those who wait. What they don't say is how much crap you have to go through while your waiting!!

There are some things in life that you can never get back... Memories that eventually fade away... People that leave you behind with a priceless lesson.... But through all this.. there's a glimpse of Hope for something Real.. Something that will never leave or fade away... Something to always... Hold on to...

Love? It's good. But, as you go on living, it changes. After time passes, all gets forgotten.

Love is like an hourglass, when the mind is empty, the heart is full.

If you can't be together with someone you love, dying is not the solution. Love is all about patience, keep calm and wait for your moment to come.

The hardest thing about knowing you don't love me is that you spent so much time pretending that you did.

Love doesn't start in the morning and end in the evening. it starts when you don't need it and sometimes ends when you need it the most.