Quotes about Time
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years
— Abraham Lincoln
A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels.
— Abraham Lincoln
this too shall pass
— Abraham Lincoln
We cannot escape history.
— Abraham Lincoln
August] 26th. [1862] I am a patient man, always willing to forgive on the Christian terms of repentance; and also to give ample time for repentance.
— Abraham Lincoln
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count; it's the life in your years.
— Abraham Lincoln
One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: This too shall pass.
— Alain de Botton
Nature's kind trick is to make everything happen so slowly that we don't get as scared as we should.
— Alain de Botton
The feeling one has no time to get anything done provides the pressure that guarantees one does get some things done.
— Alain de Botton
Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly finished planting the shoot. But all too often the greedy eyes are only deceived; the fruit that seemed so precious is still green on the inside, and disrespected hands ungratefully toss aside what has so disappointed them.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer