Quotes About Time

And though the years before I die Stretch out interminably, I Shall only count my life in truth As that brief hour of happy youth.

Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge... At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

It is notorious that the desire to live increases as life itself shortens.

Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.

Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed.

Human life [is] ... a process of filling in time until the arrival of death, or Santa Claus, with very little choice, if any, of what kind of business one is going to transact during the long wait.

If people tell you that you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe them. Real Life is found only in the present.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

Life is a game board. Time is your opponent. If you procrastinate, you will lose the game. You must make a move to be victorious.

This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.

At the time I did not know that stories of life are often more like rivers than books.

When we postpone the harvest, the fruit rots, but when we postpone our problems, they keep on growing.

The best advice I could give anyone is to spend your time working on whatever you are passionate about in life.

Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.

Gather the roses of life today.

Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai Whose portals are alternate Night and Day, How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp Abode his destin'd Hour and went his way.

Call immediately. Time is running out. We both need to do something monstrous before we die.

Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.

Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.

Present opportunities are not to be neglected; they rarely visit us twice.

If I really want an unrushed life, I must underwhelm my schedule so God has room to overwhelm my soul.

You need to make time for family no matter what happens in your life.