Quotes about time

Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies.

Elbert Hubbard

What exclusively determines the magnitude of the value of any article is therefore the amount of labour socially necessary, or the labour-time socially necessary for its production.

Karl Marx

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

Alice Walker

I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived – and dying I will tend to later.

Epictetus

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

John Ruskin

We have the time, we have the knowledge, and we have the wisdom to move out into the world with love and power.

Louise Hay

Except in very narrow cases, where there’s breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can’t out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you’re toast anyway.

Eric Ries

God replies every time we question him, but our flesh is bemired and almost deaf: we do not hear.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth.

John Burroughs

If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough always proves little enough. Let us then be up and doing, and doing to a purpose; so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity

Benjamin Franklin