Time Quotes

"Time is the great physician."

Benjamin Disraeli

"How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stol'n on his wing my three and twentieth year!"

John Milton

"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, old Time is still a-flying."

Robert Herrick

"But at my back I always hear Time's wingèd chariot hurrying near."

Andrew Marvell

"The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit shall lure it back to cancel half a Line."

Omar Khayyam

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."

Annie Dillard

"Life is short, and art long, opportunity fleeting, experience perilous, and decision difficult."

Hippocrates

"Opportunity is a bird that never perches."

Claude McDonald

"There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune."

"Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow."

Horace

"Time is the measure of movement."

"We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever."

Carl Sagan

"Is there anything too hard to achieve if one acts with the right means at the right time?"

Thiruvalluvar

"Those who aim to win the world wait for the right time, unperturbed."

Thiruvalluvar

"Do not be proud, says Kabir; Time holds you by the hair. Who knows where it will strike – at home or in a foreign land."

Kabir

"Look to this day! For it is life, the very life of life. In its brief course lie all the verities and realities of your existence."

Kalidasa

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

Victor Hugo

"One always has time enough, if one will apply it well."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination."

Lord Chesterfield

"Ask me for anything but time."

"Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness."

Jean de La Bruyère

"If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of."

"Time is all you have. And you may find one day that you have less than you think."

Randy Pausch

"Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days."

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