On Time Quotes

We relegate God to our spare time—but end up never having any spare time! Jesus said, “Seek first his kingdom” [Matthew 6:33 NIV].

Now go stand in the corner and think about what you did.

Alas! with all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive feelings eight years may be little more than nothing.

Matter tells space how to curve, space tells matter how to move.

What exclusively determines the magnitude of the value of any article is therefore the amount of labour socially necessary, or the labour-time socially necessary for its production.

As exchange-values, all commodities are merely definite quantities of congealed labour-time.

Every moment is utterly unique and will not be continued in eternity. This fact gives life its poignancy and should concentrate your attention on what you are experiencing now.

Eventlessness has no post to drape duration on.

Time is the moving image of eternity.

…majority rule gives the ruthless strong man plenty of elbow room to oppress his fellows.

Morning seems to come earlier every year I live.

The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.

The true price of anything you do is the amount of time you exchange for it.

One day you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now.

Hi, ’ Jake said. ‘I met you earlier today, but you were a lot younger then.’ ‘I was a lot younger ten minutes ago.

Time shall unfold what pleated cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.

Common people are merely intent on spending time - whoever has some talent, on making use of it.

A day is a miniature eternity.

To a child love is spelled T-I-M-E.

The days were longer then (for time, like money, is measured by our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings.

I never took much, I never asked for your crutch, Now don't ask for mine.

the only thing that really gets hurt when you try and change time is yourself.

History doesn't repeat itself, but it harmonizes, and what it usually makes is the devil's music.

He who every morning plans the transactions of that day and follows that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.

He who knows most grieves most for wasted time.

Read the best books first, otherwise you’ll find you do not have time. - Henry David Thoreau

3 o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

The butterfly counts not months but moments And has time enough.

Time is a Test of Trouble - But not a Remedy - If such it proved it proves too There was no Melody.

Time is a great legalizer even in the fields of morals.

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute you think it's two hours. That's relativity.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance. And men must walk at least before they dance.

Great things are not done by impulse but by a series of small things brought together.

Many strokes though with a little axe hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.

Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

It is in trifles and when he is off his guard that a man best shows his character.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.

Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.

From a little spark may burst a mighty flame.

Start by doing what's necessary then what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.

Enjoy the present day trusting very little to the morrow.

The bird of time has but a little way To flutter - and the bird is on the wing.

Time is a great legalizer even in the field of morals.

O call back yesterday bid time return.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

I don't think there's any way it could have failed. We don't know failure in this band. We didn't know failure. We got to know it a little after awhile but at that time there was no such word.