Quotes about Time
I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily
- CS Lewis
How short is human life! the very breath Which frames my words accelerates my death.
- Hannah More
Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.
- Henry David Thoreau
So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.
- Henry David Thoreau
Live, for this is the time of your life.
- William Saroyan
We die every day; every moment deprives us of a portion of life and advances us a step toward the grave; our whole life is only along and painful sickness.
- Jean Baptiste Massillon
You have your season, and you have but your season; neither can you lie down in peace, until you have some persuasion that your work as well as your life is at an end.
- John Owen
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
- Philip James Bailey
Already, it is later than you think for your earthly life at best, is only a blink of an eye between two eternities.
- Og Mandino
Time is your most precious gift, because you only have a set amount of it.
- Rick Warren
Life is what happens when we are busy doing other things. Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are and something you give away.
- John Lennon
All over America, churchgoers chafe at a Sunday morning service that runs an hour and ten minutes, but have no problem with three-hour football games on television.
- Jim Cymbala