“We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.”
Time is the one resource you cannot earn more of. These quotes explore how we spend it, waste it, treasure it, and try to slow it down — and the universal human experience of realizing too late that a particular moment mattered more than you thought.
“Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.”
“We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.”
“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.”
“I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?”
“Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.”
“I've spent too much time giving speeches, traveling the world.”
“Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.”
“When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.”
“Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.”
“No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.”
“When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.”
“It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.”
“I bought some instant water one time but I didn't know what to add to it.”
“Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.”
“Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.”
“Time makes more converts than reason.”