Time Quotes
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
1.) Time flies over us but leaves its shadow behind.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
2.) Perfection is the child of time.
Joseph Hall
3.) Time is money.
Benjamin Franklin
4.) Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Warren Buffett
5.) Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
6.) The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Leo Tolstoy
7.) The bad news is that time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.
Michael Altshuler
8.) We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.
John F. Kennedy
Best Time Quotes
9.) Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.
Zig Ziglar
10.) 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
11.) You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I’m there now.
George Clooney
12.) Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true, and our happiness is assured.
Ambrose Bierce
13.) Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.
Philip Roth
14.) Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time’ is to say, ‘I don’t want to.’
Lao Tzu
15.) Tough times never last, but tough people do.
Robert H. Schuller
Good Time Quotes
16.) The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration but its donation.
Corrie Ten Boom
17.) The span of life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable matters.
Mary Astell
18.) History is representational, while time is abstract.
Robert Smithson
19.) While nothing is more uncertain than a single life, nothing is more certain than the average duration of a thousand lives.
Elizur Wright
20.) Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose.
Thomas Edison
Wasted Time Sayings
21.) While we are postponing, life speeds by.
Seneca
22.) If time is of all things, the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
Benjamin Franklin
23.) Spare moments are the gold dust of time.
Bishop Hail
24.) I’ve always believed in savoring the moments. In the end, they are the only things we’ll have.
Anna Godbersen
25.) To do two things at once is to do neither.
Publilius Syrus
26.) Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
Marcus Aurelius
27.) When you spend time worrying, you’re simply using your imagination to create things you don’t want.
Shannon L. Alder
28.) 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
29.) I guess they’re called moments because they don’t last very long.
Sarra Manning
30.) Lost time is never found again.
Benjamin Franklin
31.) Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.
Carl Sandburg
32.) In any case, you can’t turn back the clock.
Michel Platini
33.) Four things come not back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, time past, and the neglected opportunity.
Arabian Proverb
34.) A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin
Timing Quotes
35.) 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.
36.) Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration.
Baltasar Gracian
37.) To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.
Eva Young
38.) 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
39.) 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
Inspirational Quotes
40.) If the world’s a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it.
Lucy Larcom
41.) The present moment is a powerful goddess.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
42.) Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
William Shakespeare
43.) Nothing is permanently perfect. But there are perfect moments and the will to choose what will bring about more perfect moments.
Mary Balogh
44.) Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
Mother Theresa
45.) If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.
Maria Edgeworth
46.) You are not important because of how long you live; you are important because of how effective you live.
Myles Munroe
47.) You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.
Maya Angelou
Motivational Quotes
48.) Punctuality is the thief of time.
Oscar Wilde
49.) It’s not that we have a little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it. Seneca
50.) 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
51.) Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Theophrastus
52.) Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four-hour days.
Zig Ziglar
53.) He who every morning plans the transactions of that day and follows that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.
Victor Hugo
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54.) The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.
Arthur Schopenhauer
55.) The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough.
Rabindranath Tagore
56.) You can’t let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.
Dale Earnhardt
57.) Time discovers truth.
Lucius Annaeus
58.) Use your precious moments to live life fully every single second of every single day.
Marcia Wieder
59.) The key is in not spending time but in investing it.
Stephen R. Covey
60.) We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
John F. Kennedy
Time Quotes
61.) Ask what time is, it is nothing else, but something of eternal duration becomes finite, measurable, and transitory.
William Law
62.) It’s not the intensity of the man but the duration of his intensity that makes the man great.
Friedrich Nietzsche
63.) Time is the wisest counselor of all.
Pericles
64.) It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
65.) We never remember days, only moments.
Cesare Pavese
66.) Life is a cruel teacher. She loves to give you the test first and the lesson later.
Daymond John
67.) Time is a file that wears and makes no noise.
English Proverb
Funny Time Quotes
68.) There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.
Bill Watterson
69.) Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.
Art Buchwald
70.) 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
71.) Every moment is the paradox of now or never.
Simon Van Booy
72.) Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
Anthony G. Oettinger
Time Flies Quotations
73.) There is no present or future-only; the past happening over and over again now.
Eugene O’Neill
74.) Time is what we want most, but… what we use worst.
William Penn
75.) Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
Steve Jobs
76.) At the end, one didn’t remember life as a whole but as just a string of moments.
David Levien
77.) Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.
Bil Keane
78.) The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
Chinese Proverb
79.) Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
Douglas Adams
80.) Seize the day, then let it go.
Marty Rubin
By Michael O’Halloran
Michael O’Halloran founded Greeting Card Poet in 2014 and has worked as its publisher and editor ever since. He has co-authored four books on kids’ trivia and four on coaching. Previously, Michael was the president of Magnetic Poetry. He has invented and brought to market over 75 new gift and toy products, most of which involve wordplay. Mike is married and a father of four daughters.
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