Quotes about Time

The best and most abiding success is that which is made before eight o'clock in the morning.

I should mention something that nobody ever thinks about, but proofreading takes a lot of time. After you write something, there are these proofs that keep coming, and there's this panicky feeling that 'This is me and I must make it better.'

I feel like every day, every minute I have to make the most of.

Thus we are sucked away into the future—and we are incapable of actually living one minute of life.

Angry in the ultimate dimension I close my eyes and look deeply. Three hundred years from now Where will you be and where shall I be?

We may spend our lives chasing after wealth, status, influence, and sensual pleasures, thinking they will improve the quality of our life. And yet we end up not having any time left to live.

My life for yours: it may mean three seconds of my time to redeem some thoughtless bit of self-indulgence on the part of someone else, or it may mean, or did mean, Golgotha, where My Life for Yours was supremely dramatized and entails our eternal joy.

Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.

Delay is preferable to error.

A machine for making revolutions is doing precisely the wrong thing at just the right time.

There is a ripeness of time for death, regarding others as well as ourselves, when it is reasonable we should drop off, and make room for another growth. When we have lived our generation out, we should not wish to encroach on another.

Hurry ruins saints as well as artists.