Quotes about Time
Yesternight the sun went hence,And yet is here today.
— John Donne
Now God comes to thee, not as in the dawning of the day, not as in the bud of the spring, but as the sun at noon to illustrate all shadows, as the sheaves in harvest, to fill all penuries, all occasions invite his mercies, and all times are his seasons.
— John Donne
Only our love hath no decay; This no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, Running it never runs from us away, But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
— John Donne
Love is a growing, or full constant light, And his first minute, after noon, is night.
— John Donne
O how feeble is man's power, That if good fortune fall, Cannot add another hour, Nor a lost hour recall! But come bad chance, And we join to'it our strength, And we teach it art and length, Itself o'er us to'advance.
— John Donne
Methinks I lied all winter, when I swore My love was infinite, if spring makes it more.
— John Donne
I sing the progress of a deathless soul, Whom Fate, which God made, but doth not control, Placed in most shapes; all times before the law Yoked us, and when, and since, in this I sing. And the great world to his aged evening, From infant morn, through manly noon I draw.
— John Donne
Though she were true when you met her. and last till you write your letter, Yet she Will be False, ere I come, to two, or three.
— John Donne
The nature o' things doesn't change, though it seems as if one's own life was nothing but change.
— George Eliot
Your life is too valuable to waste being distracted.
— Joel Osteen
Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy five and yet not ever truly to have lived.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.
— John Maxwell