These quality time quotes will inspire you. Quality time that you spend giving your full attention to someone or something without having to deal with other things at the same time.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging quality time quotes, quality time sayings, and quality time proverbs.
Famous Quality Time Quotes
- “Your children can be around you all day, but if you don’t spend quality time with them and you don’t pay attention to them and talk to them and listen to them, it doesn’t matter that they’re just around you.” ~ Brandy Norwood
- “While I’ve spent a lot of quality time with my children, perhaps it’s not been enough.” ~ Jesse Jackson
- “Because my business life is so busy, my home is really my sanctuary. That is where I reflect and spend quality time with my girls.” ~ Rachel Roy
- “One of the ways to reduce that barking would be to have volunteers come in especially for the for the dogs and take each dog out for 45 minutes each day and spend quality time with the person – that would help reduce the stress and in fact, one of my students did a study on that.” ~ Temple Grandin
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“I don’t think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family.” ~ Reba McEntire
- “On 3 things in his bucket list: On my bucket list… Uhm, the question is totally catching me by surprise. Some more travel, spending quality time with my family, and just getting the most I can out of my wife and daughter.” ~ Gabriel Macht , Quality time quotes with family
- “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” ~ Alan Kay
- “When you have kids, there’s no such thing as quality time. There’s just time. There’s no, ‘Ooh, his graduation’s better than going to the mall.’ It’s all kind of equal. Changing her diaper and her winning a contest – it’s all good.” ~ Chris Rock
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“There’s no such thing as quality time; there’s only quantity time.” ~ Steve Schirripa
- “Deliberately seeking solitude-quality time spent away from family and friends-may seem selfish. It is not. Solitude is as necessary for our creative spirits to develop and flourish as are sleep and food for our bodies to survive.” ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
- “The great myth of our work-intense era is ‘quality time.’ We believe we can make up for the loss of days or hours, especially with each other, by concentrated minutes. But ultimately there is no way to do one-minute mothering. There is no way to pay attention in a hurry.” ~ Ellen Goodman
- “July 4 is the perfect day to relax. It also provides a very good chance to spend quality time with friends and family since everyone is able to get away from the hassles of everyday life, such as work.” ~ Colin Chapman
- “‘Back To Love’ is a way of letting people know that sometimes you get caught up in trying to be successful in school or in your social life, and it’s a reminder not to forget that each day people are getting older. Nobody is promised tomorrow, so we should make sure that we spend quality time with quality people.” ~ Anthony Hamilton
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“I don’t go out unless I’m working. My quality time is when I’m doing nothing.” ~ Nas
- “My mother read that parents should spend quality time with their children. One way is to sign up for organized activities together. This month we’re taking meditation to free the mind. Last month it was Rolfing. Have you ever Rolfed, Tone?” “Only after the school’s shepherd’s pie,” I said.” ~ Julie Anne Peters
- “The biggest challenge in my life is getting all these kids raised. I’ve helped with nieces, stepchildren and my own son, so the biggest challenge is making sure the kids are raised and finding enough quality time with them.” ~ Reba McEntire
- “We put so much pressure on ourselves as parents to be able to do everything, but children are very grateful and understanding. I always find that quality time, even if you just get a little bit, really has a deep impact. But you also need them to know that they can make mistakes, and if they do make a mistake it’s OK for them to tell you and that they’ll get a second chance.” ~ Liv Tyler
- “If people could understand how much pleasure they could have by themselves, I think everyone would be a lot saner. I think that people really need a dose of quality time with one’s self.” ~ Lydia Lunch
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“I think it’s a false trade-off to say quality time versus quantity – you have to have both.” ~ Hillary Clinton
- “I like doing something romantic with a girl on Valentine’s Day, like making her dinner and keeping it simple. The more quality time, the better.” ~ Spencer Boldman
- “Tea beckons us to enjoy quality time with friends and loved ones, and especially to rediscover the art of relaxed conversation.” ~ Dorothea Johnson
- “We play tag and kickball almost every day. It’s one of the ways that I’ve figured out how to spend some fun quality time with my kids while getting exercise.” ~ Nancy O’Dell
- “I grew up on Bach and Beethoven and now I’m listening to more modern composers who I can’t even name. But since I’m constantly doing music, it’s difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff. That’s the only reason I’m thinking of going on.” ~ A. R. Rahman
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“If I could do anything over, I’d have spent more time with my first set of children. I would have taken more quality time with them, for sure.” ~ Lee Trevino
- “You hear about quality time a lot but I really think that quantity time with a person is really what strengthens a relationship. That’s when you really get to know somebody. You get to know their strengths and their weaknesses and that brings you closer. That’s what ‘Time Is Love’ is all about.” ~ Josh Turner
- “I like my home to be somewhere where my friends can feel like they can put their feet up on the couch and for it to feel like really easy living. I really love to have my friends over, cook dinner for them, catch up, and spend quality time with quality people in my life.” ~ Stacy Keibler , Quality time quotes with friends
- “Anything worth doing is worth doing well.” ~ Hunter S. Thompson
- “Read to your children all of the time
Novels and nursery rhymes
Autobiographies, even the newspaper
It doesn’t mater; it’s quality time
Because once upon a time
We grew up on stories in the voices in which they were told
We need words to hold us and the world to behold us
For us to truly know our souls” ~ Taylor Mali -
“Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.” ~ John Ruskin
- “To stay balanced, I exercise by walking and taking private Pilates lessons and salsa dance lessons. I also meditate and spend quality time with my kids by baking or doing crafts, hiking, going to the theater and movies.” ~ Andrea Navedo
- “I come alive by giving back, seeing my children smile and hearing them laugh, standing up for things I believe in, achieving a goal, being there for those who need me, spending quality time with my husband, and indulging in “me moments,” whether it’s a vacation or just a night out with friends.” ~ Trista Sutter , Quality time quotes with husband
- “Very close by the CMS shops, hidden about a quarter mile away in the woods, was the prison’s rifle range. Correctional officers could spend quality time with their firearms down there, and the hammering of multiple rounds was typical background noise during our workdays. There was something unsettling about toiling away for a prison while listening to your jailers practice shooting you.” ~ Piper Kerman
- “Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.” ~ Albert Camus
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“A lonely day is God’s way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.” ~ Criss Jami
- “The problem was with construction and retail, you have to be able to shut things off at night and spend quality time with yourself and family. I couldn’t do it. I knew that I wasn’t going to be able to give 100% to my passion if I held on to them.” ~ Drew Waters
- “I toured for about 2 1/2 years on twenty-three and then I took about a year off. I really just spent some good quality time by myself at my house, cooking, watching movies, hanging with my friends, and family. I just really needed a chance to get away from the music for a minute and decompress.” ~ Tristan Prettyman
- “I was able to do something that people cant do these days, which is to have quality time with the guys who were trying to be president and a number of them who got the job.” ~ Robert Scheer
- “Girls weekend with the ‘Vampire Diaries’ girls has become a big deal! It’s our quality time. It’s so much fun to unload and not feel guilty complaining or talking about your insecurities or bonding over things that you thought you were on your own about.” ~ Nina Dobrev
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“The most important thing in a shelter is that volunteers, especially with dogs, come in every day, take that pet out for an hour of quality time.” ~ Temple Grandin
- “I really enjoy making sure the kids get a healthy dinner, a good bath, and several books… I really like to try and end the day with some quality time with my kids. If not, I feel guilty.” ~ Norah O’Donnell
- “I’ve been involved with Fantasy Football for more than 10 years now, and I’ll keep competing each year as long as I’m still having fun. I like to play sports, and I like to compete, but I also have a wife and three daughters. This lets me stay involved with the sport I love and still spend quality time with my family too.” ~ Stevie Richards
- “I’m probably my biggest critic. I worry that if you spend any quality time reveling in good things then karma will slap you upside the head, so I try to stay as even keel as I’m able.” ~ Neil Patrick Harris
- “I love to work out and really enjoy the outdoors. I like to immerse myself with sport-related activities and spending quality time with people. I find people to be very inspiring, and I get a lot of motivation from listening and interacting with them, sharing stories and similarities – and differences – in our lives, and learning from each other.” ~ Apolo Ohno
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“I’ll let you and Zia have some quality time,” she told me. “Just the two of you and your coat.” ~ Rick Riordan
- “Businesses typically look at issues like price, quality, time of delivery. They don’t often think about social and environmental impact because they’re focused on their financial bottom line.” ~ Jerry Greenfield
- “When I’m on tour, I’ll just fly the family out, I’ll put ’em on the bus with me. They don’t have to be there the whole time, but if I’m gone a certain amount of time, you know I’m definitely gonna fly them out. And then a lotta times when I’m home, I do spot dates and stuff on the weekends, because I always want spend quality time with the family. Family at the end of the day is everything, and I value that.” ~ E-40
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“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” ~ Peter Drucker
- “I’m lucky to have a job where I can bring my kids to work. I love the days they come visit me on set. My goal is and has always been to do work that my kids can be proud of – to set a good example for them. As long as I can still spend quality time with my kids, I’ll continue to do what I’m doing and hopefully make them proud.” ~ Alyssa Milano
- “I went home every night to New Jersey – or most nights – and to help with the six-grade math homework or to make breakfast in the morning, just to make sure that that was there. When I was single and didn’t have children, I used to laugh at this notion of quality time.” ~ Kellyanne Conway
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“What does immortality mean to me? That we all want more time; and we want it to be quality time.” ~ Joan D. Vinge
- “Giving those animals [in shelter] quality time – now, I have been in some of the shelters where the cats have been in group housing. Well if you have a cat that never gets out of sternal recumbency, now what that means is that [inaudible] – that’s a stressed cat. If they lay on their side, then they are not stressed out.” ~ Temple Grandin
- “Before Community started up again for the season, we had the chance to go on a long family vacation where we drove for ten days down the coast. I was like wow, look at these people that I am related to and am actually spending some quality time with! So it was great to be with them, but now my schedule is really difficult so I have to take what I can get.” ~ Joel McHale
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“The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.” ~ Robert Kiyosaki
- “God is not calling us to win the world and, in the process, lose our families. But I have known those who so enshrined family life and were so protective of “quality time” that the children never saw in their parents the kind of consuming love that made their parent’s faith attractive to them. Some have lost their children, note because they weren’t at their soccer games or didn’t take family vacations, but because they never transmitted a loyalty to Jesus that went deep enough to interrupt personal preferences.” ~ David Shibley
- “Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.” ~ Mae West