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Time Quotes

18 quotes on time and how we spend it — from the classics to the everyday.

“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”

Leo Tolstoy · War and Peace, 1869

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”

Bill Keane · Family Circus, widely attributed

“There is a day in summer when the long nights begin, and they begin because the sun has swung as far north as it will go.”

Rachel Carson · The Edge of the Sea

“Every summer has a story.”

John Grisham · Sycamore Row

“Lose an hour in the morning and you will be all day hunting for it.”

Richard Whately · "Apophthegms", 1854

“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”

Karen Lamb · widely attributed to Karen Lamb

“To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven.”

Ecclesiastes 3:1 · The Bible, King James Version

“Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.”

Joseph Addison · The Spectator, 1711

“Dum differtur vita transcurrit.”

Seneca · Letters to Lucilius, Letter I

“Omnia, Lucili, aliena sunt, tempus tantum nostrum est.”

Seneca · Letters to Lucilius, Letter I

“Patience and time do more than strength or passion.”

Jean de La Fontaine · Fables, Book II, 1668

“Youth is like a long weekend on Friday night. Middle age is like a long weekend on Monday afternoon.”

Richard Nelson Bolles

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”

Chinese proverb

“The future depends on what you do today.”

Mahatma Gandhi

“Ars longa, vita brevis.”

Hippocrates · Aphorisms

“Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.”

Richard Whately · Apophthegms, 1854