Quotes About Time and Timing

I am always quarreling with time!  It is so short to do something and so long to do nothing.

— Queen Charlotte

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

— Leontyne Price

We must use time creatively...and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute.  But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute — and it’s longer than any hour.  That’s relativity.

— Albert Einstein

Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.

— Hippocrates

I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.

— Bernard Berenson

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

— Lord Chesterfield

It takes a lot of time to be sentimental.

— Don Herold

Life is short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be gained.

— Stendhal

Time is the measure of business, as money is of wares.

— Francis Bacon

Time goes, you say?  Ah no! Alas, times stays, we go.

— Austin Dobson

Ah! The clock is always slow; it is later than you think.

— Robert W. Service

Time heals what reason cannot.

— Seneca the Younger

Time makes more converts than reason.

— Thomas Paine

Time is the greatest innovator.

— Francis Bacon

Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.

— Lord Chesterfield

One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.

— G. K. Chesterton

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

— Faith Baldwin

What is a ruin but time easing itself in endurance?

— Djuna Barnes

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.

— Ecclesiastes 3:1

Time — the devourer of all things.

— Ovid

You may delay, but Time will not.

— Benjamin Franklin

Time: that which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

— Herbert Spencer

The ripeness is all.

— William Shakespeare

Time wounds all heels.

— Jane Ace

Time is money.

— Benjamin Franklin