Quotes Related To Time
Philosophical Reflections on Time
"Time is the wisest counselor of all." – Pericles
"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once." – Albert Einstein
"Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind." – Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Lost time is never found again." – Benjamin Franklin
"Time is what we want most, but what we use worst." – William Penn
Inspirational Thoughts
"Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." – Sam Levenson
"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot." – Michael Altshuler
"You may delay, but time will not." – Benjamin Franklin
"It’s not about having time, it’s about making time." – Unknown
"Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time." – Marthe Troly-Curtin
On the Value of Time
"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life." – Charles Darwin
"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
"Time and tide wait for no man." – Geoffrey Chaucer
"The way we spend our time defines who we are." – Jonathan Estrin
"Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time." – Jim Rohn
On the Passage of Time
"Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn." – Delmore Schwartz
"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time." – Leo Tolstoy
"Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time’ is to say ‘I don’t want to.’" – Lao Tzu
"Time brings all things to pass." – Aeschylus
"Time heals all wounds." – Geoffrey Chaucer
On Living in the Moment
"Forever is composed of nows." – Emily Dickinson
"Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more." – Mother Teresa
"The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion." – Thích Nhất Hạnh
"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." – Buddha
"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin." – Mother Teresa
On Time Management
"Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else." – Peter Drucker
"You can’t make up for lost time. You can only do better in the future." – Ashley Ormon
"The key is in not spending time, but in investing it." – Stephen R. Covey
"It’s not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?" – Henry David Thoreau
"The way you manage your time reflects the way you manage your life." – Unknown
On the Fleeting Nature of Time
"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all its pupils." – Hector Berlioz
"No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle." – Winston Churchill
"Time slips away like grains of sand, never to return again." – Robin Sharma
"We must use time creatively." – Martin Luther King Jr.
"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
On Time and Love
"Love is space and time measured by the heart." – Marcel Proust
"Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity." – Henry Van Dyke
"Time doesn’t take away from friendship, nor does separation." – Tennessee Williams
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." – Andy Warhol
"The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now." – Rick Warren
Humorous Takes on Time
"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by." – Douglas Adams
"Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once." – Ray Cummings
"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana." – Groucho Marx
"I wish I could turn back time, but I didn’t listen to Cher." – Unknown
"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday." – Don Marquis
On Regret and Time
"We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they’re called memories. Some take us forward, they’re called dreams." – Jeremy Irons
"Better three hours too soon than a minute too late." – William Shakespeare
"Lost time is never found again." – Benjamin Franklin
"You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it." – Charles Buxton
"The trouble is, you think you have time." – Jack Kornfield
On Patience and Time
"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Patience and time do more than strength or passion." – Jean de La Fontaine
"All great achievements require time." – Maya Angelou
"Time discovers truth." – Seneca
"To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time." – Leonard Bernstein
On Time and Success
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." – Henry David Thoreau
"You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The future depends on what you do today." – Mahatma Gandhi
"Time spent in self-reflection is never wasted – it is an intimate date with yourself." – Paul TP Wong
"In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity." – Sun Tzu
On Time and Change
"Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change." – Thomas Hardy
"Change your 24 hours, and you will change your life." – Eric Thomas
"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely." – Auguste Rodin
"Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them." – Marcel Proust
"Change takes time. Be patient." – Unknown
On Time and Wisdom
"Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and listen. No more is needed." – Eckhart Tolle
"Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre." – Warren Buffett
"Time, the devourer of all things." – Ovid
"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers." – Alfred Lord Tennyson
"It’s not the time in your life, it’s the life in your time." – Bruce Springsteen
On Time and Aging
"Time, which strengthens friendship, weakens love." – Jean de La Bruyère
"With age, comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone." – Oscar Wilde
"Growing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional." – Walt Disney
"You can’t turn back the clock, but you can wind it up again." – Bonnie Prudden
"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter." – Mark Twain
On Time and Dreams
"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up." – Paul Valery
"Dreams don’t work unless you do." – John C. Maxwell
"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." – Walt Disney
"Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand." – Napoleon Hill
"Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream." – Khalil Gibran
On Time and Mortality
"To die will be an awfully big adventure." – J.M. Barrie
"Time is the longest distance between two places." – Tennessee Williams
"The goal isn’t to live forever; the goal is to create something that will." – Chuck Palahniuk
"Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it." – Haruki Murakami
"We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever; the goal is to create something that will." – Chuck Palahniuk
On Time and Eternity
"Eternity is in love with the productions of time." – William Blake
"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." – Douglas Adams
"Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity." – Henry Van Dyke
"Eternity begins and ends with the ticking of the clock." – Christopher Hitchens
"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is." – C.S. Lewis
On the Power of Now
"Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life." – Eckhart Tolle
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present." – Alice Morse Earle
"Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over." – Richard Carlson
"Nothing ever happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now." – Eckhart Tolle
"If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present." – Roy T. Bennett
On Time and Opportunity
"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take." – Wayne Gretzky
"Don’t wait. The time will never be just right." – Napoleon Hill
"Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them." – William Arthur Ward
"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises." – Demosthenes
"The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live." – Flora Whittemore
On Time and Nature
"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." – Lao Tzu
"The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough." – Rabindranath Tagore
"Time spent amongst trees is never time wasted." – Katrina Mayer
"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." – Albert Einstein
"The sun is new each day." – Heraclitus
On Time and Patience
"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet." – Aristotle
"Good things come to those who wait." – Proverb
"Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste." – Benjamin Franklin
"Rivers know this: There is no hurry. We shall get there someday." – A.A. Milne
"To lose patience is to lose the battle." – Mahatma Gandhi
On Time and Creativity
"Time is the soil in which all creative efforts thrive." – Unknown
"Art is long, life is short." – Hippocrates
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures." – Henry Ward Beecher
"Creativity takes courage." – Henri Matisse
"The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind." – Albert Einstein
On the Paradoxes of Time
"Time is a game played beautifully by children." – Heraclitus
"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 more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it." – Niccolò Machiavelli
"Time is the longest distance between two places." – Tennessee Williams
"Time is a storm in which we are all lost." – William Carlos Williams
On Time and Productivity
"Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort." – Paul J. Meyer
"If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done." – Bruce Lee
"Do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of." – Benjamin Franklin
"It’s not about having time. It’s about making time." – Unknown
"The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do." – Michael Porter
On Time and Legacy
"What we do in life echoes in eternity." – Marcus Aurelius
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." – Winston Churchill
"Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago." – Warren Buffett
"The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it." – William James
"We are time’s subjects, and time bids be gone." – William Shakespeare
On Time and Resilience
"Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'" – Mary Anne Radmacher
"Fall seven times and stand up eight." – Japanese Proverb
"The darkest hour has only sixty minutes." – Morris Mandel
"Time is the wisest of all counselors." – Pericles
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Time and Learning
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." – Mahatma Gandhi
"Time spent learning is never time wasted." – Catherine Pulsifer
"He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger." – Confucius
"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today." – Malcolm X
"The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you." – B.B. King
On Time and Action
"Well done is better than well said." – Benjamin Franklin
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step." – Lao Tzu
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." – William James
"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." – Walt Disney
"Time spent in action beats time spent in thought." – Unknown
On Time and Forgiveness
"Time is the healer of all wounds." – Menander
"Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom." – Hannah Arendt
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." – Mahatma Gandhi
"It takes one moment to forgive, but sometimes a lifetime to heal." – Unknown
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." – Paul Boese
On Time and Relationships
"The best gift you can give someone is your time." – Unknown
"Time makes it easier to know who matters most in your life." – Unknown
"The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships." – Tony Robbins
"Relationships take time, effort, and patience." – Unknown
"True love doesn’t have a happy ending, because true love never ends." – Unknown
On Time and Freedom
"The time is always right to do what is right." – Martin Luther King Jr.
"Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity." – Herbert Hoover
"You can have anything you want in life, but you can’t have everything you want. At least, not at the same time." – Peter McWilliams
"Time and freedom are two of the most valuable things we have." – Unknown
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." – George Bernard Shaw
On Time and Discipline
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment." – Jim Rohn
"We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret." – Jim Rohn
"The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day." – Henry Ward Beecher
"Self-discipline begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don’t control what you think, you can’t control what you do." – Napoleon Hill
"You will never always be motivated, so you must learn to be disciplined." – Unknown
On Time and Success (Extended)
"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out." – Robert Collier
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." – Theodore Roosevelt
"Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm." – Winston Churchill
"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going." – Beverly Sills
"Don’t count the days, make the days count." – Muhammad Ali
On Time and Adventure
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all." – Helen Keller
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do." – Mark Twain
"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." – John Muir
"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page." – Saint Augustine
"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore." – André Gide
On the Power of Time
"Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend." – Theophrastus
"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent." – Carl Sandburg
"Time waits for no one." – Folklore
"Time is the scarcest resource, and unless it is managed, nothing else can be managed." – Peter Drucker
"The future starts today, not tomorrow." – Pope John Paul II
On Time and Effort
"The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph!" – Marvin Phillips
"Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit." – Napoleon Hill
"Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger." – Dale Carnegie
"Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard." – Tim Notke
"Success is dependent upon the glands – sweat glands." – Zig Ziglar
On Time and Gratitude
"Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." – Melody Beattie
"Take time to be thankful for everything you have. You can always have more, but you could also have less." – Unknown
"Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well." – Voltaire
"The more you are in a state of gratitude, the more you will attract things to be grateful for." – Walt Disney
"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life." – Melody Beattie
On Time and the Universe
"For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven." – Ecclesiastes 3:1
"Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures." – Henri Frederic Amiel
"The universe is made of stories, not of atoms." – Muriel Rukeyser
"Time is an illusion." – Albert Einstein
"We are all connected; to each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe, atomically." – Neil deGrasse Tyson
On Time and Perseverance
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." – Confucius
"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th." – Julie Andrews
"Through perseverance, many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure." – Benjamin Disraeli
"The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying." – John C. Maxwell
"Victory belongs to the most persevering." – Napoleon Bonaparte
On Time and Simplicity
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." – Leonardo da Vinci
"Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going too fast – you also miss the sense of where you are going and why." – Eddie Cantor
"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor." – Seneca
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." – William James
"The best things in life are simple and free." – Unknown
On Time and Reflection
"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life." – Steve Jobs
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." – Søren Kierkegaard
"Self-reflection is the school of wisdom." – Baltasar Gracián
"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity." – Albert Einstein
"Look back in forgiveness, forward in hope, down in compassion, and up with gratitude." – Zig Ziglar
On Time and Adventure (Extended)
"To live would be an awfully big adventure." – J.M. Barrie
"Adventure is worthwhile in itself." – Amelia Earhart
"Life is short and the world is wide." – Unknown
"One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure." – William Feather
"Blessed are the curious, for they shall have adventures." – Lovelle Drachman
On Time and Hope
"Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness." – Desmond Tutu
"Once you choose hope, anything is possible." – Christopher Reeve
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul." – Emily Dickinson
"We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope." – Martin Luther King Jr.
"Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles." – Samuel Smiles
On Time and Faith
"Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase." – Martin Luther King Jr.
"Time is the brush of God, as he paints his masterpiece on the heart of humanity." – Ravi Zacharias
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us." – J.R.R. Tolkien
"Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible." – Corrie Ten Boom
"God’s timing is always perfect." – Unknown