Time Quotes

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Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

William Faulkner

You may delay, but time will not.

Benjamin Franklin

Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark-spattered wheels and a hoarse roar of power or terror.  It's passing, yet I'm the one who's doing all the moving.

Martin Amis

Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Jim Rohn

Time! the corrector when our judgments err. 

Lord Byron

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of lightning, at once exists and expires.

Charles Caleb Colton

Leonardo da Vinci Quote: Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Leonardo da Vinci

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between
Sunrise and Sunset, two golden hours,
each set with sixty diamond minutes
No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.

Horace Mann

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

John F. Kennedy

There is no present or future, only the past, happening over and over again, now.

Eugene O’Neill

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

What we call our future is the shadow which our past throws in front of us

Marcel Proust

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

Dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of. 

Benjamin Franklin

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.

A. A. Milne

One can live for years sometimes without living at all,
and then all life comes crowding into one single hour 

Oscar Wilde

Virgil Quote: Time meanwhile flies, never to return.

Time meanwhile flies, never to return.

Virgil

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.

Plutarch

Time discovers truth.

Seneca

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.

Denis Waitley

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.

Thomas Henry Huxley

A man who dares waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Charles Darwin

Time is the wisest counsellor of all.

Pericles

One moment is worth more than a thousand gold pieces.

Korean Proverb

Nothing lasts forever - not even your troubles.

Arnold H. Glasgow

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.

Jeremy Irons

The habit of looking to the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts.

Bertrand Russell

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