1,020 Quotes Regarding Time


Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.
Clint Eastwood

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
Calvin Coolidge

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
Elvis Presley

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.
Wilma Rudolph

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
Charles Dickens

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later for another thing, they die earlier.
H. L. Mencken

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
James Allen

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
Henri Frederic Amiel

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
Margaret Thatcher

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes so with present time.
Leonardo da Vinci

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley

Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.
Mike Tyson

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

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
E. B. White

It takes a long time to become young.
Pablo Picasso

Mr. President, you were elected to lead. You chose to follow. And now it's time for you to get out of the way.
Mitt Romney

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.
H. L. Mencken

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
Charles Baudelaire

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
Napoleon Bonaparte