116 Time Goes By Quotes

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Famous Time Goes By Quotes

People say that time goes by; time says that the people go by. — Vietnamese Proverbs

The years go by one after the other; time slips past us with out our being aware of it; we grow old like ordinary men and we shall end like them. — Louis XIV

Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go. — Henry Austin Dobson

Tempus fugit (time flies). — Ovid

Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly. — Ivan Turgenev

Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away. — Proverbs

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. — Marcus Aurelius

Time means little; I never notice its passing. — Stephenie Meyer

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting. — Haruki Murakami

The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever. - Friedrich von Schiller

The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever. — Friedrich von Schiller

Time flies, dreams die, people lose faith, Tryna hide behind a lie with a straight face. — Xzibit

Time passes so slowly if you are unaware of it and so quickly if you are aware of it. — Marc Bolan

Time is a river of passing events — a rushing torrent — Greek Proverbs

I've been aware of the time passing by they say in the end it's the wink of an eye and when the morning light comes streaming in you'll get up and do it again — Jackson Browne

Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away. - Ben Hecht

Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away. — Ben Hecht

Short Time Goes By Quotes

  • While we are postponing, life speeds by. — Seneca
  • While we are postponing, life speeds by. — Seneca
  • How time flies when one has fun! — Samuel Beckett
  • Time stays long enough for those who use it. — Leonardo da Vinci
  • The happier time, the quicker it passes — Pliny The Younger
  • time is a terrible thing because it erases joys and pains at the same time. — Gosho Aoyama

Time Goes By Image Quotes

Time goes by quote One day, you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the thing you've always wanted. Do
One day, you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the thing you've always wanted. Do it now.

Time Goes On Quotes

Life is a carousel. It goes up and down. All U gotta do is just stay on. — Pharrell Williams

We shall steer safely through every storm, so long as our heart is right, our intention fervent, our courage steadfast, and our trust fixed on God. If at times we are somewhat stunned by the tempest, never fear. Let us take breath, and go on afresh. — Saint Francis de Sales

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday. — Wilma Rudolph

Time goes on. So whatever you're going to do, do it. Do it now. Don't wait. - Robert De Niro

Time goes on. So whatever you're going to do, do it. Do it now. Don't wait. — Robert De Niro

You are the sky. The clouds are what happens, what comes and goes. — Eckhart Tolle

How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart, you begin to understand, there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep...that have taken hold. — J. R. R. Tolkien

Time goes by quote Don't compare your life to others. There's no comparison between the sun and the moon. They shine wh
Don't compare your life to others. There's no comparison between the sun and the moon. They shine when it's their time.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. — Henry Ford

Watch your thoughts as you watch the street traffic. People come and go; you register without response. It may not be easy in the beginning, but with some practice you will find that your mind can function on many levels at the same time and you can be aware of them all. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss, A sigh is just a sigh; The fundamental things apply, As time goes by. — Herman Hupfeld

I have made a sculpture … you will never be finished with it – when you pass around it or see it against the sky… something new goes on all the time… together with the sun, the light and the clouds, it makes a living thing. — Jørn Utzon

Time Passes Quotes

You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count. — Nancy Reagan

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. — Earl Nightingale

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. — Mother Teresa

Time goes by quote Every time you judge someone else, you reveal an unhealed part of yourself.
Every time you judge someone else, you reveal an unhealed part of yourself.

Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back. — Harvey Mackay

Beware of every hour and how it passes, and only spend it in the best possible way, do not neglect yourself, but render it accustomed to the noblest and best of actions, and send to your grave that which will please you when you arrive to it. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

When life is good do not take it for granted as it will pass. Be mindful, be compassionate and nurture the circumstances that find you in this good time so it will last longer. When life falls apart always remember that this too will pass. Life will have its unexpected turns. — Ajahn Brahm

Time goes by quote Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is
Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.

Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken. Take heed, do not squander your life. — Dogen

Mosquito [...] had asked Ear to marry him, whereupon Ear fell on the floor in uncontrollable laughter. "How much longer do you think you will live?" she asked. "You are already a skeleton." Mosquito went away humiliated, and any time he passed her way he told Ear that he was still alive. — Chinua Achebe

Let's just say I'm like a ship passing through storms, resting in ports now and then until it's time to continue the journey. I once told a friend, `I'm just looking for an angel with a broken wing - one that couldn't fly away.' — Jimmy Page

At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent. — Barbara Bush

Time Flies Quotes

Everything will eventually come to an end, So try to savor the moment, cause time flies, don't it? The beauty of life, you gotta make it last for the better, Cause nothin' lasts forever. — Nas

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Some people have the disease of criticising all the time. They forget the good about others and only mention their faults. They are like flies that avoid the good and pure places and land on the bad and wounds. This is because of the evil within the self and the spoiled nature. — Ibn Taymiyyah

Time goes by quote Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass away.

I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question. — Harun Yahya

Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us. — Jean Paul

Time goes by quote Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it's now or never.
Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it's now or never.

Life is flying by. You don't have time to waste another minute being negative, offended or bitter. If someone did you wrong, get over it and move forward. — Joel Osteen

We must uphold the fighting of tigers and flies at the same time, resolutely investigating law-breaking cases of leading officials and also earnestly resolving the unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems which happen all around people. — Xi Jinping

Time and tide wait for no man. - Geoffrey Chaucer

Time and tide wait for no man. — Geoffrey Chaucer

They say time flies, but you keep breaking it’s wings. - Tablo

They say time flies, but you keep breaking it’s wings. — Tablo

Passage Of Time Quotes

The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it. — Esther Williams

90% of what is considered "impossible" is, in fact, possible. The other 10% will become possible with the passage of time & technology. — Hideo Kojima

Only the passage of time will we know what long term damage may occur to these children. These vaccines can damage your children. They may damage their brains, their heart, their immune system, and their ability to have children in the future. — Robert W. Malone

Time goes by quote Life has a way of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having every
Life has a way of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen at once.

Every positive change - every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness - involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception. — Dan Millman

Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time. — Andrei Tarkovsky

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. — Thomas Mann

Time goes by quote Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations bui
Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.

Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Do not despair if the answers don't come immediately. Some answers are only revealed with the passage of time. — Rainer Maria Rilke

A busy mind accelerates the perceived passage of time. Buy more time by cultivating peace of mind. — Naval Ravikant

Natural disasters in Bolivia have been getting worse with the passage of time. It's brought about by a system: the capitalist system, the unbridled industrialization of the resources of the Planet Earth. — Evo Morales

A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and the passage of time which inexorably changes us. — Rowan Williams

How Time Flies Quotes

How do geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans know when it is time to move on? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within if only we would listen to it, that tells us certainly when to go forth into the unknown. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

How many times have you been on the freeway and had someone fly by you at 100 mph then end up two cars ahead of you at the off ramp? What's the point? — Mark Harmon

- and how time flies! What, has it already been twenty years, already forty years that we are together? Why, how terrible! We haven't yet said all we wanted to say to each other... May we have a little respite, or else may we be allowed to begin all over again! — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Time goes by quote Live your life. Take chances. Be crazy. Don't wait. Because right now is the oldest you've ever been
Live your life. Take chances. Be crazy. Don't wait. Because right now is the oldest you've ever been and the youngest you'll ever be again.

I ask people who don't fly, "How can you not fly when you live in a time in history when you can fly?" — William Langewiesche

Time flies when you are having fun. — Albert Einstein

Time flies, though, huh? But I feel young. And do you know how I stay feeling young, ladies and gentlemen? I'll share my secret with you: I live in a senior citizen retirement community. — Carol Leifer

Time goes by quote Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different.
Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different.

Time flies on restless pinions - constant never. — Friedrich Schiller

Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

When there are lines upon my face from a lifetime of smiles, When the time comes to embrace for one long last while, We can laugh about how time really flies, We won't say goodbye 'cause true love never dies,You'll always be beautiful in my eyes. — Joshua Kadison

But how do you wait for heaven And who has that much time And how do you keep your feet on the ground When you know, that you were born, you were born to fly — Sara Evans

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More Time Goes By Quotes

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. — Albert Schweitzer

Are you too busy for improvement? Frequently, I am rebuffed by people who say they are too busy and have no time for such activities. I make it a point to respond by telling people, look, you’ll stop being busy either when you die or when the company goes bankrupt. — Shigeo Shingo

Time goes by quote Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

Has it ever struck you ... that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going? It’s really all memory ... except for each passing moment. — Eric Kandel

Just the other day, it seems, the kids were running through the house, slamming doors, breaking glass, making noise. Time goes by so quickly. Sometimes everything seems so fleeting. — Perry Como

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us. — Albert Schweitzer

I bought a piano once because I had the dream of playing As Time Goes By as some girl's leaning on it drinking a martini. Great image. But none of it worked out. I can't even play Chopsticks. But I've got a nice piano at my house! — George Clooney

The mark of a life governed by the Holy Spirit is that such a life is continually and ever more and more occupied with Christ, that Christ becomes greater and greater as time goes on. — Theodore Austin-Sparks

It's still the same old story, A fight for love and glory, A case of do or die! The world will always welcome lovers As time goes by. — Herman Hupfeld

Bitcoin exchanges are run by people who learned fiat finance. Gambling with depositors' money is normal & healthy for them, because in the fiat system the central bank destroys the currency to bail them out every time it goes wrong. — Saifedean Ammous

Going on with life, it only gets more and more intense as time goes by - and the challenges only multiply. — Martha Reeves

As the time goes by, you change, your learn new things, your attitude is different. For the moment, I'm still enjoying ski racing so much that it would be difficult for me to think about ending my career. — Hermann Maier

As time goes by people will see who I am for who I am. — Justin Timberlake

The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements. — George Bernard Shaw

It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients. — Ivan Pavlov

Strengths are not activities you're good at, they're activities that strengthen you. A strength is an activity that before you're doing it you look forward to doing it; while you're doing it, time goes by quickly and you can concentrate; after you've done it, it seems to fulfill a need of yours. — Marcus Buckingham

Despite our differences, we are all in this together. No act of kindness or compassion goes unnoticed. To change the world, take compassionate action within your immediate sphere of influence. To change yourself, start by being still and making time just to listen. — Edmund Bourne

Girl I don't wanna share you We could be together, but you scared to I ain't gonna leave you My people tell me I should And when I blow I hope you know That I could have any girl I choose But as time goes by, baby all I'm gonna want is you — Mac Miller

When I have a match to play, I begin to relax as soon as I wake up. Everything I do, I do slow and easy. That goes for stroking the razor, getting dressed, and eating my breakfast. I'm practically in slow motion. By the time I'm ready to tee off, I'm so used to taking my time that it's impossible to hurry my swing. — Walter Hagen

Absolutely. If a Muslim who has-who is-a practicing Muslim who believes the word of the Koran to be the word of Allah, who abides by Islam, who goes to mosque and prays every Friday, who prays five times a day-this practicing Muslim, who believes in the teachings of the Koran, cannot be a loyal citizen to the United States of America. — Brigitte Gabriel

You may think I'm doing this without taking the time to really think it through, and you're absolutely right. It would take me the rest of my life to think this thing through. But it's while you're thinking, while you're weighing the pros and cons, that life goes on. It passes by you while you're doing nothing. - Arthur — Marc Levy

During those days when you're exhausted and during those days when you're frustrated, during those days when you're being attacked by your own people for doing what you think is right, remember you're part of a progression that goes back a long time of ordinary people who are doing their best to make it a better world. — Cleve Jones

As time goes on we become old, the future contracts, the past expands...But by future we don't just mean the years ahead; we always mean as well the plenitude of possibilities which challenge our creativity...In confrontation with the future we can become young if we accept the future's challenges. — Jürgen Moltmann

And yet the real success goes to those who obsess. The focus that leads you through the Dip to the other side is rewarded by a marketplace in search of the best in the world. A woodpecker can tap twenty times on a thousand trees and get nowhere, but stay busy. Or he can tap twenty-thousand times on one tree and get dinner. — Seth

The curve of your eyes goes around my heart, A round of dance and sweetness, Halo of time, nocturnal and safe cradle, And if I don't know any more all that I've lived through It's because I haven't always been seen by you. — Paul Eluard

Whoever you are, be that person with all your might. Time goes by faster than we thought. It is a thief so quiet. You must let yourself be loved and you must love, parts of you that never loved must open and love. You must announce yourself in all particulars so you can have yourself. — Barry Hannah

You breathe in and out; you breathe in and you breathe out, and you live one moment into the next moment, and then time goes by, and you find you're able to put one foot in front of the other. — Gloria Vanderbilt

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it. — Charles Caleb Colton

I don't feel negative emotions. I feel calm, composed and ready. And as it goes on I get better at it. By the time the fight is on, I don't feel any emotions at all. — Conor McGregor

It is painful to comprehend how the mind becomes fixed little by little as time goes by. The mind is the executioner of reality, the slayer of the true; the mind is the destroyer of love. — Samael Aun Weor

Don't spend a lot of time imagining the worst-case scenario. It rarely goes down as you imagine it will, and if by some fluke it does, you will have lived it twice. — Michael J. Fox

There comes a point in your life when you realize how quickly time goes by, and how quickly it has gone. Then it really speeds up exponentially. With that, I think you start to put a lot of things into context; you start to see how huge the world is, and really, the universe. — Michael Keaton

If you have a kid who goes to kindergarten and doesn't know what a circle is, doesn't know what red and green are, and doesn't know what right and left are, by the time he learns those things, the rest of the class is far ahead of him. — C. Everett Koop

Time goes by so fast and worry is really wasted time and energy. — Dana Perino

The greatest gift you will ever have is your life, and the second greatest gift-which you give yourself-is courage to live it to the fullest. Time goes by quickly, and you cannot take it for granted. — Sonia Friedman

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. life with ups and downs is better than a flat life or one that goes in circles. Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time. — Marabel Morgan

It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction. — E. T. A. Hoffmann

Life goes by really fast, and it seems that there are times when you're burying a lot of friends and family. And then there are times that feel really precious and everybody is doing okay. This is one of those times. — Amy Grant

It's been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don't suppose anybody really understands yet. — Jane Goodall

I can't tell you that I like getting older, but I think I can cope with it because everybody gets older. Sometimes it's a little upsetting because time goes by and you want to do more and you have to accept life for what it is and find some new motivation that gives you drive and enthusiasm. — Sophia Loren

I'm gonna live my life. I won't watch the time go by. I won't keep it inside. Freak out, let it go. — Avril Lavigne

You must remember this, a kiss is just a kiss. — Herman Hupfeld

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