“To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven.”
Ecclesiastes 3:1 · The Bible, King James Version
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Time Quotes
62 quotes on time and how we spend it — from the classics to the everyday.
“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
“The body is borrowed. What you do with the time inside it is the only thing that's actually yours.”
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