Time Quotes: Inspirational, Educational and Funny
These time quotes are not for once in a blue moon. Don’t wait for the eleventh hour. Rather, there’s no time like the present. Clock in. It’s now or never.
It’s your day in the sun. So, please review these insights, and beat the clock. You’ll learn about the importance of each precious minute.
Quotes About Time
Time flies over us but leaves its shadow behind.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Perfection is the child of time.
Joseph Hall
Time is money.
Benjamin Franklin
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Warren Buffett
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Leo Tolstoy
The bad news is that time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.
Michael Altshuler

Best Time Quotes
Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.
Zig Ziglar
I want to take all our best moments, put them in a jar, and take them out like cookies and savor each one of them forever.
Crystal Woods
You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I’m there now.
George Clooney
Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true, and our happiness is assured.
Ambrose Bierce
Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.
Philip Roth
Good Time Quotes
The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration but its donation.
Corrie Ten Boom
The span of life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable matters.
Mary Astell
History is representational, while time is abstract.
Robert Smithson
While nothing is more uncertain than a single life, nothing is more certain than the average duration of a thousand lives.
Elizur Wright

Wasted Time Sayings
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
Seneca
If time be of all things, the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
Benjamin Franklin
Spare moments are the gold dust of time.
Bishop Hail
I’ve always believed in savoring the moments. In the end, they are the only things we’ll have.
Anna Godbersen
To do two things at once is to do neither.
Publilius Syrus
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
Marcus Aurelius
When you spend time worrying, you’re simply using your imagination to create things you don’t want.
Shannon L. Alder
If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
Bruce Lee
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Better Late Than Never Quotes
I guess they’re called moments because they don’t last very long.
Sarra Manning
Lost time is never found again.
Benjamin Franklin
Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.
Carl Sandburg
In any case, you can’t turn back the clock.
Michel Patini
Timing Quotes
Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration.
Baltasar Gracian
To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.
Eva Young
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

Inspirational Time Quotes
If the world’s a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it.
Lucy Larcom
The present moment is a powerful goddess.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
William Shakespeare
Nothing is permanently perfect. But there are perfect moments and the will to choose what will bring about more perfect moments.
Mary Balogh
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
Mother Theresa
If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.
Maria Edgeworth
You are not important because of how long you live; you are important because of how effective you live.
Myles Munroe
Beat the Clock
The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough.
Rabindranath Tagore
You can’t let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.
Dale Earnhardt
Time discovers truth.
Lucius Annaeus
Use your precious moments to live life fully every single second of every single day.
Marcia Wieder
The key is in not spending time but in investing it.
Stephen R. Covey
We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
John F. Kennedy

Time Quotes
Ask what time is, it is nothing else, but something of eternal duration becomes finite, measurable, and transitory.
William Law
It’s not the intensity of the man but the duration of his intensity that makes the man great.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Time is the wisest counselor of all.
Pericles
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
We never remember days, only moments.
Cesare Pavese
Life is a cruel teacher. She loves to give you the test first and the lesson later.
Daymond John
Time is a file that wears and makes no noise.
English Proverb
Funny Time Quotes
There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.
Bill Watterson
Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.
Art Buchwald
How did it get so late so soon? It’s the night before it’s afternoon. December is here before it’s June. My goodness, how the time has flown. How did it get so late so soon?
Dr. Seuss
Every moment is the paradox of now or never.
Simon Van Booy
Time Flies Quotations
There is no present or future-only; the past happening over and over again now.
Eugene O’Neill
Time is what we want most, but… what we use worst.
William Penn
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
Steve Jobs
At the end, one didn’t remember life as a whole but as just a string of moments.
David Levien
Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.
Bil Keane
By Mike O’Halloran
Mike is the founder and editor of Greeting Card Poet.
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