Quotes about time

O, call back yesterday, bid time return.

— William Shakespeare

Wasted time means wasted lives.

— R. Shannon

When the time is right, you just got to do it.

— Jack Simplot

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

— Samuel Smiles

Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

— Herbert Spencer

Time is the only critic without ambition.

— John Steinbeck

Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

— Jim Steinman

The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

— Success Magazine

Don't serve time, make time serve you

— William Sutton

Time turns the old days to derision, our loves into corpses or wives; and marriage and death and division make barren our lives.

— A. C. Swinburne

If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

— A. B. Zu Tavern

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

— James Taylor

A day may sink or save a realm.

— Lord Alfred Tennyson

Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

— Henry David Thoreau

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

— Henry David Thoreau

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

— Henry David Thoreau

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

— Robert Townsend

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

— Brian Tracy

When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

— Henry Twells

Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

— Source Unknown

He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

— Source Unknown

An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

— Source Unknown

I am what you will be, I was what you are.

— Source Unknown

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

— Source Unknown

Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

— Source Unknown

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

— Source Unknown

Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

— Source Unknown

Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you are doing can be handled by someone else.

— Source Unknown

A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

— Source Unknown

A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

— Source Unknown

To save time is to lengthen life.

— Source Unknown

You love what you find time to do.

— Source Unknown

What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

— Source Unknown

Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

— Source Unknown

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

— Source Unknown

Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others.

— Source Unknown

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

— Source Unknown

The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

— Source Unknown

To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

— Robert Updegraff

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

— Marquis De Vauvenargues

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

— Denis Waitley

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

— John Wanamaker

Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

— Christine Warren

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

— H.G. Wells

Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.

— Walt Whitman

Time is waste of money.

— Oscar Wilde

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

— Thornton Wilder

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

— Tennessee Williams

For time is the longest distance between two places.

— Tennessee Williams

In politics a week is a very long time.

— Harold Wilson

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

— Thomas Wolfe

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

— William Butler Yeats

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

— Frank Zappa

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

— Rabindranath Tagore

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

— John Lennon

Time is never your friend but make good use out that bish, the snitch; only time will tell

— BPBEE

In time you'll find me... In time your relise I'm for you... In time you'll stop being such a child... (wait your a boy) In time you'll find love again... In time you'll think for yourslef... In time you'll see that the things you said I did I never did though... In time you'll see all I did was love you... Be youe friend... And in time you payed me back by throwing it in my face... So in time I'll show you...

— Kloe Farrugia

For everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven.

— Ecclesiastes

It exists hidden in one's thought.

— Tadj Abelkader

L’espace et le temps n’existent pour l’homme que de la façon qu’il les remplit et qu’aucun univers n’est immense pour lui, il suffit de tracer un chemin et de traverser tous les obstacles, et si jamais on n’est plus là c’est qu’un autre temps un autre espace existent ailleurs.

— Tadj Abelkader

Your time is as valuable as the dream you carry.

— Patrick Pinckney

If you value your dream, you will value your time. And if you value your time, you will not waste it. Every minute is precious.

— Patrick Pinckney

To jump over centuries in one step is impossible. Jump too high or far, you’ll be way too late.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Although all days are equally long regardless of the season, some days are long not only seasonally but by rewards they offer.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Time is money only if seeds of painful efforts are sown in the fertile land of time.~Anuj Somany

— Anuj Somany

When I waste minutes, hours take revenge.

— Muhammad Tariq Majeed

We can create rebuild everthing (strength stamina health wealth…) but not time so don’t waste it.

— garrysandhu

Time is the greatest thief in life.

— Mak Kazeronnie

We might lose the battle in rough time but its important to learn from those battles to win the war and get back the smooth time

— ranka dharam

Time moves in one direction. Memories in another.

— gibson, william