Time Quotes

We all get the same 24 hours. These quotes explore what we do with them and why it matters.

20900 quotes

"Time is the measure of business."
Daniel Defoe
"The weight of the past shapes the form of the future."
Daniel Defoe
"Time is the most precious commodity we possess."
Eliza Haywood
"Tomorrow is built upon today's choices."
Eliza Haywood
"Every second is a gift wrapped in possibility."
Eliza Haywood
J
"We are blind as to the future, clear-sighted as to the past."
Jonathan Swift
J
"The arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are formed and fashioned by the hands of time."
Jonathan Swift
"No time's too long when you have found the woman you love."
Aphra Behn
"Every moment lost is a moment never to be recovered."
Aphra Behn
"Time is the fire in which we burn."
Aphra Behn
M
"Life is a journey, not a destination."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
M
"Every moment is precious; waste none of it."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"Time does not heal all wounds; rather, it teaches us to live alongside them."
Eliza Haywood
S
"Time is the only critic without favor."
Samuel Johnson
P
"The past is now."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Time is the thief that steals even our most cherished memories."
Aphra Behn
W
"If you trap the moment before it's ripe, the fruit will never sweet be."
William Blake
W
"I see the Past, Present & Future existing all at once."
William Blake
M
"Every moment that we lose slips from us like a golden dream."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
M
"Time cannot heal what ambition has destroyed."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"Time is flying never to return."
Christina Rossetti
"Yesterday is past, tomorrow is uncertain, today is present."
Christina Rossetti
"Time is the most precious gift we possess."
Christina Rossetti
"I do not believe in the eternity of the present, only of the past and future."
Christina Rossetti
P
"Time is the fire in which we all must burn."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
P
"Time is the most precious commodity we possess."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
J
"No wise man ever wished to be younger."
Jonathan Swift
J
"No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train of reflection, whether we will or no."
Jonathan Swift
"Time is the thief that steals youth but grants the currency of experience."
Eliza Haywood
"Memory is both gift and curse, preserving what we wish to forget."
Eliza Haywood