78 Short and Wise Quotes about Time
Time is one of the most valuable things we have, so we have put together a list of the best quotes about time for your next post.
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Short Quotes about Time
“All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.” — Baltasar Gracian
“No use thinking of the past for it’s gone, don’t think of the future because it has to come, think of the present because that’s where you are.” — Kazi Shams
“Time is what we want most, but… what we use worst.” — William Penn
“If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.” — Maria Edgeworth
“Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.” — Theophrastus
“Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.” — Philip Stanhope
“Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne
“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.” — C.S. Lewis
“The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.” — Schopenhauer
“Time = life; therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.” — Alan Lakein
“Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week’s value out of a year while another man gets a full year’s value out of a week.” — Charles Richards
“We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they’re called memories. Some take us forward, they’re called dreams.” — Jeremy Irons
“Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.” — Dion Boucicault
“Time is like the wind, it lifts the light and leaves the heavy.” — Dominico Cieri Estrada
“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
“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much can be done if we are always doing.” — Thomas Jefferson
“A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.” — Charles Darwin
“The world was made, not in time, but simultaneously with time. There was no time before the world.” — Augustine of Hippo
“Time goes, you say? Ah no! Alas, time stays, we go.” — Austin Dobson
“Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.” — Jesse Jackson
“The passing years are like a mist sweeping up from the sea of time so that my memories acquire new aspects.” — W. Somerset Maugham
“There is a rhythm inside a year of time, like a great mainspring that keeps it ticking from spring to summer to fall to winter.” — Borden Deal
“We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.” — John F. Kennedy
“Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.” — Mason Cooley
“Lost time is never found again.” — Benjamin Franklin
“Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.” — Thomas Hardy
“Better three hours too soon, than one minute too late.” — William Shakespeare
“Time is the wisest counselor of all.” — Pericles
“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.” — Rodin
“The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.” — Stephen R. Covey
“Time brings all things to pass.” — Aeschylus
“You can’t make up for lost time. You can only do better in the future.” — Ashley Ormon
“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” — Mother Teresa
“We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.” — Nelson Mandela
“The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.” — Art Buchwald
“If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” — Bruce Lee
“The present time has one advantage over every other – it is our own.” — Charles Caleb Colton
“You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.” — Charles F. Kettering
“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
“Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.” — Henry Ford
“Every second is of infinite value.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The way we spend our time defines who we are.” — Jonathan Estrin
“There’s only one thing more precious than our time and that’s who we spend it on.” — Leo Christopher
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” — Leo Tolstoy
“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” — Leonardo da Vinci
“Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.” — M. Scott Peck
“The more your know yourself, the more you understand life, the more you value your time.” — Maxime Lagacé
“All great achievements require time.” — Maya Angelou
“Time isn’t the main thing. It’s the only thing.” — Miles Davis
“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” — Napoleon Hill
“Time, the devourer of everything.” — Ovid
“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.” — Rabindranath Tagore
“Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time.” — Richard Warren
“Time slips through our hands like grains of sand never to return again. Those who use time wisely are rewarded with rich, productive and satisfying lives.” — Robin Sharma
“Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.” — Rose Kennedy
“Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.” — Samuel Smiles
“It’s not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it.” — Seneca
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” — Steve Jobs
“Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose.” — Thomas A. Edison
“Time is non-refundable, use it with intention.” — Unknown
“It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.” — Vincent Van Gogh
“People often complain about lack of time when lack of direction is the real problem.” — Zig Ziglar
“Time stays long enough for those who use it.” — Leonardo da Vinci
“Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves.” — Lord Chesterfield
“Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.” — Louisa May Alcott
“There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.” — Mahatma Gandhi
“If one has no time, one has also lost oneself.” — Marc Wittmann
“There’s time enough, but none to spare.” — Charles W. Chesnutt
“Time is the least thing we have of.” — Ernest Hemingway
“You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.” — Charles Buxton
“Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.” — Dale Carnegie
“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.” — Earl Nightingale
“If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.” — Maurice Chevalier
“Your success will be in direct proportion to how you spend your ‘free’ time.” — Mike Dunlap
“Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.” — Eckhart Tolle
“There are two types of patience. One is exercised in hard work and the other in idleness. Patience with hard work is the one that moves mountains. Patience in idleness moves nothing, not even cobwebs.” — Israelmore Ayivor
