One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
—Walter Scott (1771–1832) Scottish Novelist, Poet, Playwright, Lawyer
Realize life as an end in itself. Functioning is all there is.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841–1935) American Jurist, Author
Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
—Ben Hecht (1894–1964) American Screenwriter, Playwright
Time is the wisest of all counselors.
—Plutarch (c.46–c.120 CE) Greek Biographer, Philosopher
People who postpone happiness are like children who try chasing rainbows in an effort to find the pot of gold at the rainbow’s end… Your life will never be fulfilled until you are happy here and now.
—Ken Keyes Jr. (1921–95) American Personal Growth Author
Time is the moving image of eternity.
—Plato (428 BCE–347 BCE) Greek Philosopher, Mathematician, Educator
Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.
—Leo Buscaglia (1924–98) American Motivational Speaker
Life is now … this day, this hour … and is probably the only experience of the kind one is to have.
—Charles Macomb Flandrau (1871–1938) American Essayist, Travel Writer
Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
—Sam Levenson (1911–80) American Humorist, Writer, Teacher
Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
—Cicero (106BCE–43BCE) Roman Philosopher, Orator, Politician, Lawyer
Time is the greatest and longest established spinner of all … His factory is a secret place, his work noiseless, and his hands are mutes.
—Charles Dickens (1812–70) English Novelist
I cannot afford to waste my time making money.
—Louis Agassiz (1807–73) Swiss-American Naturalist, Glaciologist
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
—Marcus Aurelius (121–180) Emperor of Rome, Stoic Philosopher
Time is the arbitrary division of eternity.
—Unknown
The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb, for we have no word to speak about it.
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish Historian, Essayist
To fill the hour, that is happiness; to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
Timely service, like timely gifts, is doubled in value.
—George MacDonald (1824–1905) Scottish Novelist, Lecturer, Poet
I wish I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
—Bernard Berenson (1865–1959) American Art Critic, Historian
Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.
—Common Proverb
So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
—The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith
Simplicity is the glory of expression.
—Walt Whitman (1819–92) American Poet, Essayist, Journalist
Taking time to live is taking time to appreciate simple silence as better than any kind of talk, or watching a flower, or watching a guy wash the windows on a skyscraper and wondering what he is thinking.
—Douchan Gersi (1947–2015) Slovak Producer, Explorer
To save time is to lengthen life.
—Unknown
Time is a part of eternity, and of the same piece with it.
—Moses Mendelssohn (1729–86) German Jewish Philosopher, Theologian
Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.
—John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn (1838–1923) British Writer, Journalist, Political Leader, Editor
Each day, each hour, an entire life.
—Juan Ramon Jimenez (1881–1958) Spanish Lyric Poet
Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.
—Peter Drucker (1909–2005) Austrian-born Management Consultant
Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.
—Pericles (c.490–429 BCE) Athenian Statesman, General
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
—C. S. Lewis (1898–1963) Irish-British Academic, Author, Literary Scholar
The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.
—Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German Philosopher
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