Here are the best collection of time quotes from famous people. Time is a funny thing. One day, it seems to fly by so quickly that you barely have time to do anything.
The next day, everything you want to do seems impossible because you have no time. That’s why it’s always important to take advantage of your time. We often think of time as a concept that’s beyond our control.
We can’t stop the sun from setting or the hands on the clock from ticking. But, actually, time is something we can have the most power over of all. We just need to change our perspective. That’s what these quotes about time are all about.
Time Quotes
It is the quality of one’s thoughts that matters, not the quantity. – Lao Tzu
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind. – Nathaniel Hawthorne
There are no secrets that time does not reveal. – Jean Racine
Time is an illusion. – Albert Einstein
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late. – William Shakespeare
Time is money. – Benjamin Franklin
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. – Chinese proverb
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change. – Thomas Hardy
The moments are what make life so exciting. If you aren’t reaching for the moments, you’re not living life. – Unknown
You can’t go back and change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future. – Unknown
Every day, every hour, every minute, every second – the present is the only time we ever have. – Unknown
The best time to ‘set your goals is at the beginning of each new year, and the second-best time is now. – Brian Tracy
No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important. – Mary Kay Ash
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The past is behind us, the future is ahead of us, and the present is in our hands. – Priyanshu Singh
Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed. – Unknown
Most Popular Time Quotes
Time waits for no one. – Folklore
Lost time is never found again. – Benjamin Franklin
Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. – Marthe Troly-Curtin
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. – Leo Tolstoy
Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got. – Art Buchwald
It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. – Elizabeth Taylor
Time is the one thing we all have in common, but it is also the one thing that we all use differently. – Catherine Pulsifer
If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of. – Bruce Lee
You can’t make up for lost time. You can only do better in the future. – Ashley Ormon
Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present. – Bil Keane
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. – Anthony G. Oettinger
An inch of time is an inch of gold but you can’t buy that inch of time with an inch of gold. – Chinese Proverb
Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy. – Roy T. Bennett
In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these. – Paul Harvey
Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly. – Ivan Turgenev
Short Time Quotes
Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.
Time brings all things to pass.
Always in motion is the future.
Time and tide wait for no man.
How did it get so late so soon? – Dr. Seuss
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Time brings all things to pass. – Aeschylus
The present time has one advantage over every other – it is our own. – Charles Caleb Colton
Enjoy yourself. It’s later than you think.
Time is the wisest counselor of all.
The strongest of all warriors are these two – Time and Patience.
To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom.
There is no present or future, only the past, happening over and over again, now.
Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.
We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
Time: a great engraver, or eraser.
Inspirational Time Quotes
Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear. – Paulo Coelho
Time moves in one direction, memory in another. – William Gibson
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. – Thomas Paine
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin. – Mother Theresa
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. – Charles Darwin
Everything that you want to be good at requires time, patience, and lots of repetition and practice. – Rohen Phoenix
The key is in not spending time, but in investing it. – Stephen R. Covey
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. – Charles Buxto
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. – George Eliot
My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time. – Steve Jobs
The key is to have a balanced life. Set aside a fraction of your time to carry out your dreams and ambitions. – Michael Lee
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. – Carl Sandburg
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
The Best Quotes About Time
The trouble is, you think you have time. – Jack Kornfield
Time is a created thing. To say “I don’t have time” is to say “I don’t want to.”
Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go. – Roy T. Bennett
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. – Steve Jobs
Time isn’t the main thing. It’s the only thing. – Miles Davis
Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. – Coco Chanel
There are moments and days when I want to freeze time, and there are days I wish away. – Sarah Williams
Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings. – John Updike
Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away. – Ben Hecht
Waste no more time arguing about what a good person should be. Be one. – Marcus Aurelius
Punctuality is the thief of time. – Oscar Wilde
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The present time has one advantage over every other – it is our own. – Charles Caleb Colton
Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death. – Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
There is no time like the present to start making changes, but I have found that the best time is to start by going about your day differently as soon as you wake up. – Kevin Kerr
Everything takes time. Everything that hurts passes with time where each person heals on their own schedule. – Byron Pulsifer
Time Management Quotes
Time is the longest distance between two places. – Tennessee Williams
Don’t wait for desperate times! Take action now, only if only baby steps. – Catherine Pulsifer
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. – Andy Warhol
Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. – Stephen King
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done. – Bruce Lee
Time is flying never to return. – Virgil
The future is uncertain but the end is always near. – Jim Morrison
Time is a storm in which we are all lost. – William Carlos Williams
Each moment is perfect and heaven-sent, in that each moment holds the seeds for growth. – Suzan-Lori Parks
There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time. – Napoleon
Time does not change us. It just unfolds us. – Max Frisch
You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time. – Charles F. Kettering
We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. – Nelson Mandela
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. – Charles Darwin
People often complain about lack of time when lack of direction is the real problem. – Zig Ziglar
They say I’m old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast! – Dr. Seuss
Time is a precious commodity. If you have not been enlightened to this actuality in your youth, you most certainly will in old age. – Adam Jacobs
We need to determine what activities best utilize our time in order to achieve the results we desire in all areas of our life! – Catherine Pulsifer
Value of Time Quotes
Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn. – Delmore Schwartz
Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities. – Daniel J. Boorstin
Know how to live the time that is given you. – Dario Fo
The time to start is now. – ATGW
For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness. – Anonymous
We must use time as a tool, not as a couch. – John F. Kennedy
We all make time for what we feel is important in our lives. – Anonymous
Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters. – Anonymous
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. – Rodin
Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real. – Cormac McCarthy
Regret for wasted time is more wasted time. – Mason Cooley
Ordinary people think merely of spending time, great people think of using it. – Arthur Schopenhauer
The way we spend our time defines who we are. – Jonathan Estrin
The time is always right to do what is right. – Martin Luther King Jr
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst. – William Penn
The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately. – Seneca
When Time is spent, Eternity begins. – Helen Hunt Jackson
Balance your time expenditures so you can spend time with the people that you love. – Steve Brunkhorst
Waste your money and you’re only out of money, but waste your time and you’ve lost a part of your life. – Michael LeBoeuf
There’s only one thing more precious than our time and that’s who we spend it on. – Leo Christopher
How did it get so late so soon? It’s night before it’s afternoon. December is here before it’s June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon? – Dr. Seuss
I don’t think it is possible to contribute to the present moment in any meaningful way while being wholly engulfed by it. It is only by stepping out of it, by taking a telescopic perspective, that we can then dip back in and do the work which our time asks of us. – Maria Popova
Long Time Quotes
You may delay, but time will not. –
The past is never dead. It’s not even past. – William Faulkner
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. – Rabindranath Tagore
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity. – Jean De La Bruyere
If not now, when? – Anonymous
All great achievements require time. – Maya Angelou
All our sweetest hours fly fastest. – Virgil
Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short. – Adam Hochschild
There’s time enough, but none to spare. – Charles W. Chesnutt
Time is precious. Make sure you spend it with the right people. – Anonymous
Time is what prevents everything from happening at once. – John Archibald Wheeler
Either you run the day, or the day runs you. – Jim Rohn
It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning. – Vincent Van Gogh
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them. – Henry Ford
There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want. – Bill Watterson
Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time. – Mahatma Gandhi
It’s a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up. – J.K. Rowling
An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length. – Virginia Woolf
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year – and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade! – Tony Robbins
