Time Quotes

“Look back and smile on perils past.”

— Walter Scott

“Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.”

— Mark Twain

“Life is short, the art long.”

— Hippocrates

“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”

— Jane Austen

“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”

— Douglas Adams

“There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.”

— Henry Kissinger

“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.”

— Hector Berlioz

“This must be Thursday; I never could get the hang of Thursdays.”

— Douglas Adams

“The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.”

— Stephen Hawking

“Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.”

— Hermann Hesse

“Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.”

— Victor Hugo

“Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.”

— Jim Rohn

“I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.”

— Stephen Hawking

“Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.”

— Leo Buscaglia

“I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.”

— Golda Meir

“You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it; those that inspire us shrink it; and habit fills it.”

— Marcel Proust

“Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.”

— Neil Armstrong

“Just remember, once you're over the hill, you begin to pick up speed.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“It takes a long time to become young.”

— Pablo Picasso

“Everyone has his day, and some days last longer than others.”

— Winston Churchill

“Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.”

— Horace

“I believe time wounds all heels.”

— John Lennon

“Perhaps even these things one day will be pleasing to remember.”

— Virgil

“Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.”

— Don Marquis

“Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“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 time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”

— Bertrand Russell

“The big picture doesn’t just come from distance; it also comes from time.”

— Simon Sinek

“Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.”

— Horace

“If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?”

— John Wooden

“Life is half spent before we know what it is.”

— George Herbert

“You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.”

— George Burns

“Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.”

— Igor Stravinsky

“Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.”

— Tennessee Williams

“A man's as old as he's feeling, a woman as old as she looks.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“We do not say 'Being is time' is, but rather 'There is Being' and 'There is time.'”

— Martin Heidegger

“Tis always morning somewhere in the world.”

— Richard Henry Horne

“We should all start to live before we get too old.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?”

— Satchel Paige

“There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval.”

— George Santayana

“Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.”

— Khalil Gibran

“I get up at the same time every morning.”

— Mehmet Oz

“And know that I am with you always, yes, to the end of time.”

— Jesus Christ

“Millions long for immortality, who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.”

— Susan Ertz

“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.”

— Will Rogers

“Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift—that's why it's called the present.”

— Bil Keane

“The distinction between the past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”

— Albert Einstein

“The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.”

— William Butler Yeats

“We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.”

— William Shakespeare

“The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.”

— Fridtjof Nansen

“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”

— Seneca

“Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.”

— John Ruskin

“Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.”

— Hippocrates

“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.”

— Albert Einstein

“If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”

— Bruce Lee

“If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.”

— Theophrastus

“Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.”

— Horatio Nelson

“When you are courting a nice girl, an hour seems like a second; when you sit on a red-hot cinder, a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.”

— Albert Einstein

“Silence is as deep as eternity; speech is shallow as time.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.”

— Mark Twain

“Everything happens to everybody sooner or later, if there is time enough.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Youth is wasted on the young.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”

— Emily Dickinson

“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”

— Douglas Adams

“The years teach much, which the days never know.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.”

— William E. Gladstone

“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”

— Socrates

“The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.”

— Jean-Paul

“Eternity is not something that begins after you're dead; it is going on all the time; we are in it now.”

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.”

— Albert Einstein

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

“I existed from all eternity and behold, I am here and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.”

— Khalil Gibran

“We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.”

— Voltaire

“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.”

— William Penn

“What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is; if I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.”

— Saint Augustine

“The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“Observe due measure; for right timing is in all things the most important factor.”

— Hesiod

“If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.”

— Adam Duritz

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”

— Buddha

“Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted.”

— John Lennon

“That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.”

— Emily Dickinson

“You may delay, but time will not.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“Lose not yourself in a far-off time; seize the moment that is thine.”

— Friedrich Schiller

“Youth has no age.”

— Pablo Picasso

“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“Faith is the response to something which is calling us from the timeless part of our reality.”

— Sydney Carter

“The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on; nor all thy piety, nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.”

— Omar Khayyam

“No man is rich enough to buy back his past.”

— Oscar Wilde

“When you are courting a nice girl, an hour seems like a second; when you sit on a red-hot cinder, a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.”

— Albert Einstein

“Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.”

— Albert Einstein

““Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.””

— Benjamin Franklin

“From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.”

— Sydney J. Harris

“Forever is composed of Nows.”

— Emily Dickinson

“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Time goes on, so whatever you're going to do, do it. Do it now. Don't wait.”

— Robert De Niro

“Comedy is tragedy plus time.”

— Carol Burnett

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.”

— Joan Rivers

“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

“I am not young, but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there.”

— Coco Chanel

“Time and the hour run through the roughest day.”

— William Shakespeare

“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”

— Charles Darwin

“The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“The person who doesn’t scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

“But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained.”

— Virgil

“Anticipation is the essence of the experience.”

— Anonymous

“Even God cannot change the past.”

— Agathon

“But time, growing old, teaches all things.”

— Aeschylus

“We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.”

— Pindar

“A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.”

— Edward de Bono

“The time has come," the Walrus said, "to talk of many things: of shoes and ships and sealing-wax, of cabbages and kings.”

— Lewis Carroll

“Time moves in one direction, memory in another.”

— William Gibson

“Time itself comes in drops.”

— William James

“There is only one day left, always starting over. It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Time and tide wait for no man.”

— Geoffrey Chaucer

“Friends are thieves of time.”

— Francis Bacon

“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”

— Charles Darwin

“Life is about timing.”

— Carl Lewis

“Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories; and the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.”

— Stevie Wonder

“Time is money.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“The net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.”

— William Gibson

“Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”

— Evelyn Waugh

“Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.”

— Luis Buñuel

“Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.”

— Faith Baldwin

“It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.”

— Tom Lehrer

“All our sweetest hours fly fastest.”

— Virgil

“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”

— C.S. Lewis

“Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.”

— D.H. Lawrence

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

“Either you run the day, or the day runs you.”

— Jim Rohn

“Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”

— Jane Austen

“History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Time, the devourer of all things.”

— Ovid

“Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.”

— Leon Trotsky

“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.”

— William Penn

“We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.”

— Vince Lombardi

“Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.”

— Euripides

“Time and tide wait for no man.”

— Geoffrey Chaucer

“Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Lost time is never found again.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“I have wasted my hours.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Time brings all things to pass.”

— Aeschylus

“Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for the past and fear of the future.”

— Fulton Oursler

“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”

— Bertrand Russell

“If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.”

— Mark Twain

“There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.”

— Charles Baudelaire

“Think in the morning, act in the noon, eat in the evening, sleep in the night.”

— William Blake

“Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.”

— Alan Lakein

“I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.”

— Julius Caesar

“Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.”

— William Shakespeare

“Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.”

— Don Marquis

“Time is the king of all men; he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.”

— Pericles

“I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.”

— Steven Wright

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”

— Zora Neale Hurston

“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.”

— Hector Berlioz

“It gets late early out there.”

— Yogi Berra

“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.”

— Bruce Lee

“Time is my greatest enemy.”

— Evita Perón

“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time, like dew on the tip of a leaf.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

“The point of power is always in the present moment.”

— Louise L. Hay

“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.”

— Will Rogers

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

“There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.”

— homer

“Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.”

— Denis Waitley

“We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.”

— John F. Kennedy

“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”

— Pablo Picasso

“I have made this letter longer than usual only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.”

— Blaise Pascal

“The rule is jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.”

— Lewis Carroll

“Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.”

— Colin Powell

“Life, if well lived, is long enough.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today, today is a gift; that's why we call it the present.”

— Babatunde Olatunji

“It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.”

— Voltaire

“Age is just a number; it's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.”

— Joan Collins

“Christmas is the day that holds all time together.”

— Alexander Smith

“The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.”

— Bill Watterson

“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.”

— William Shakespeare

“I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere.”

— George Burns

“There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation; the challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.”

— James A. Baldwin

“Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say thank you?”

— William Arthur Ward

“Light tomorrow with today.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“There is more to life than increasing its speed.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“The rule is jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.”

— Lewis Carroll

“Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.”

— Richard Whately

“The water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.”

— Mark Twain

“Time is the longest distance between two places.”

— Tennessee Williams

“The future influences the present just as much as the past.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Time is the scarcest resource, and unless it is managed, nothing else can be managed.”

— Peter Drucker

“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

“Time is not a thing; thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.”

— Martin Heidegger

“Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.”

— Evelyn Waugh

“Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.”

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

“You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it.”

— Tennessee Williams

“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”

— Douglas Adams

“O sweet, delusive noon, which the morning climbs to find! O moment sped too soon, and morning left behind!”

— Helena Hunt Jackson

“All great achievements require time.”

— Maya Angelou

“We are always the same age inside.”

— Gertrude Stein

“The time has come," said the Walrus, "to talk of many things: of shoes and ships and sealing-wax, of cabbages and kings.”

— Lewis Carroll

“If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?”

— John Wooden

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