Inspirational Sayings

Sayings About Time

Here you can find sayings about time that are inspirational in nature and that depict how much time is valued or in some cases not valued. If you squander it, or never put it to good use you can never get it back again. Make use of your time for it is a commodity that is not without limit. You can't steal it, borrow it, beg for it; time is to be used wisely not squandered as if a resource that is unlimited. "You can waste a lot over a lifetime and still get things back but time once wasted is never recoverable."
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Henry David Thoreau

Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark-spattered wheels and a hoarse roar of power or terror. It's passing, yet I'm the one who's doing all the moving.
Martin Amis

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
Dion Boucicault

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
Benjamin Disraeli

Time is the fire in which we burn.
Delmore Schwartz

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
James Matthew Barrie

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Annie Dillard

There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.
Brian Tracy

We get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.
Paul Bowles

The years teach much which the days never know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever begins, also ends.
Seneca

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
William Faulkner

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
C.S.Lewis


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