1,020 Quotes Regarding Time


I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
Thomas Paine

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
Henry David Thoreau

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
Steve Jobs

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
Coco Chanel

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
George Bernard Shaw

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.
Aristotle

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Margaret Thatcher

In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time.
Tupac Shakur

For a competitive junkie like me, golf is a great solution because it smacks you in the face every time you think you have accomplished something. That to me has taken over a lot of the energy and competitiveness for basketball.
Michael Jordan

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
Norman Vincent Peale

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Henry David Thoreau

Time and tide wait for no man.
Geoffrey Chaucer

I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?
Charlie Sheen

I read poetry to save time.
Marilyn Monroe

For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother.
Marilyn Monroe

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night's date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn't think of looking at another woman.
Marilyn Monroe

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.
Chanakya

The only time I have problems is when I sleep.
Tupac Shakur

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo

Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.
Eminem