Quotes about Time
Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
— Francois Rabelais
It's the way of all flesh, you know. Aging takes its toll. Like I said, it's the way of all flesh. When the time came and he finally had to step down, the thing that kept him going disappeared.
— Frank Sinatra Jr.
I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief.
— George Eliot
Time cannot bend the line which God has writ.
— Henry David Thoreau
The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable.
— Henry David Thoreau
Death is the Christian's vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
— Henry Ward Beecher
You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long time to say anything in Old Entish. And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say.
— JRR Tolkien
Your time is too valuable, your destiny is too great, and your future is too bright to waste a single moment. Be a now person.
— Joel Osteen
Time, that aged nurse, Rocked me to patience.
— John Keats
Through buried paths, where sleepy twilight dreams The summer time away.
— John Keats
I always adhered to the idea that God is time, or at least that His spirit is.
— Joseph Brodsky
I decided I can't pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it.
— Serena Williams