Quotes About Time

Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent. – Carl Sandburg

They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. – Andy Warhol

It takes less time to do things right that to explain why you did it wrong. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire. – Jorge Luis Borges

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. – Andrew Jackson

Time is the wisest counselor. – Pericles

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time. – Dennis Waitley

It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about? – Henry David Thoreau

It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. – Earl of Chesterfield

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between Sunrise and Sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever. – Horace Mann

Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves. – Lord Chesterfield

Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide. – More Mark Twain Quotes

Time heals what reason cannot. – Seneca

Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got. – Art Buchwald

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity. – Henry David Thoreau

You can’t turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again. – Bonnie Prudden

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving. – Henry Ford

It’s not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted. – Mary O’Connor

Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions. – John Randolph

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot. – Michael Althsuler

It is never too late to become what you might have been. – George Elliot

When we are doing what we love, we don’t care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn’t exist and we are truly free. – Marcia Wieder

You may delay, but time will not. – Benjamin Franklin

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

Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away. – Ben Hecht

You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it. – Charles Bixton

Your greatest resource is your time. – Brian Tracy

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made; Our times are in his hand who saith, “A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: See all, nor be afraid! – Robert Browning

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

You’re writing the story of your life one moment at a time. – Doc Childre and Howard Martin

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. – Dr. Laura Schlessinger

Time is neither our friend or our enemy; it is something that gets measured out to us, to see what we will make of it. – Richard Gaylord Briley

If you want to make good use of your time, you’ve got to know what’s most important and then give it all you’ve got. – Lee Iacocca

Those who make the worse use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness. – Jean De La Bruyere

Everything comes to him that hustles while he waits. – Thomas Eddison Quote

Time and health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted. – Denis Waitley

If you haven’t got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over? – Jeffery J. Mayer

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. – Rabindranath Tagore

Success does not come to those who wait… and it does not wait for anyone to come to it. – Unknown

Never let yesterday use up today. – Richard H. Nelson

Time ripens all things, no man is born wise. – Miguel de Cervantes

Time is equal to life; therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life. – Alan Lakein

When the time is right, you just got to do it. – Jack Simplot

The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves. – Steven Covey

For disappearing acts, it’s hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work. – Doug Larson

What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time. – T.S. Elliot

One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us. – Michael Cibenko

The environment you fashion out of your thoughts, your beliefs, your ideals, your philosophy is the only climate you will ever live in. The key is in not spending time, but in investing it. – Steven Covey

Time is everything. Anything you want, anything you accomplish – pleasure, success, fortune – is measured in time. – Joyce C. Hall

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 send it. Once you’ve lost it, you can never get it back. – Harvey MacKay

I’m working to improve my methods, and every hour I save is an hour added to my life. – Ayn Rand

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking. – Sir John Lubbock

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little left of it. Every man’s greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life. – W. Litchfield

Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment. – Sara Paddison

Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it. – Unknown

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers. – Doug Larson

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. -Annie Dillard

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again. – Ovid

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that the stuff life is made of. – Benjamin Franklin

To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute. – Robert Updegraff

Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days. – Doug Larson

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. – More Mark Twain Quotes

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. – Will Rogers

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. – C.S. Lewis

Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods. – Japanese Proverb

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball. – Doug Larson

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it. – Leonardo Da Vinci

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing. – Eva Young

Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be, be one. – Marcus Aurelius

Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. – M. Scott Peck

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate. – Doug Larson

Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks. -Euripides

Today, be aware of how you are spending your 1,440 beautiful moments, and spend them wisely. – Unknown Quote

We always have time enough if we will but use it aright. – Goethe Quote

We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet. – Unknown Quote

Time is the explicable raw material of everything. – Arnold Bennett

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: “I did not have time.” – Robert J. Hastings

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch. – John F. Kennedy

Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it and spend it rather than invest it. – Jim Rohn

Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.- Josh Billings

We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand – and melting like a snowflake. – Marie B. Ray

Control your own time. Don’t let it be done for you. If you are working off the in-box that is fed you, you are probably working on the priority of others. – Donald Rumsfeld

Aside from Velcro, time is the most mysterious substance in the universe. You can’t see it or touch it, yet a plumber can charge you upwards of seventy-five dollars per hour for it, without necessarily fixing anything. – Dave Barry

There can’t be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. – Henry Kissinger

I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn’t do, if it were the last hour of my life. – Jonathan Edwards