These time quotes will inspire you. Time, the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging time quotes, time sayings, and time proverbs.
Inspirational Time Quotes
- “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
- “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” ~ J. R. R. Tolkien
- “We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.” ~ H. G. Wells , Time quotes for life
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“To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom.” ~ Bertrand Russell
- “We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they’re called memories. Some take us forward, they’re called dreams.” ~ Jeremy Irons
- “The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.” ~ Leo Tolstoy
- “Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.” ~ Jim Rohn
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“Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted.” ~ John Lennon
- “The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.” ~ Carl Sandburg
- “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
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“Don’t waste your time chasing butterflies. Mend your garden, and the butterflies will come.” ~ Mario Quintana
- “Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
- “Light tomorrow with today!” ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- “Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.” ~ Dale Carnegie
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“Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.” ~ Rose Kennedy
- “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” ~ Steve Jobs
- “I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.” ~ Miguel de Cervantes
- “Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.” ~ Coco Chanel
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“Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.” ~ Thomas Hardy
- “Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.” ~ William Penn
- “One today is worth two tomorrows.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” ~ Charles Darwin
- “Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.” ~ M. Scott Peck
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“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.” ~ Hector Berlioz
- “This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” ~ Bruce Lee , Time quotes for love
- “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four-hour days.” ~ Zig Ziglar
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“Time and memory are true artists; they remold reality nearer to the heart’s desire.” ~ John Dewey
- “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
- “You will never ‘find’ time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.” ~ Charles Buxton
- “Don’t waste your time being upset about something you can’t change. Begin again and do it better this time.” ~ Joyce Meyer
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“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.” ~ Bruce Lee
- “The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started.” ~ Dawson Trotman
- “Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.” ~ Max Frisch
- “Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.” ~ Khalil Gibran
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“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “All the money in the world doesn’t mean a thing if you don’t have time to enjoy it.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
- “Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.” ~ Art Buchwald
- “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
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“There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself.” ~ Anthony Rapp
- “We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.” ~ Roald Dahl
- “For centuries, man believed that the sun revolves around the earth. Centuries later, he still thinks that time moves clockwise.” ~ Robert Breault
- “Time and tide wait for no man.” ~ Geoffrey Chaucer
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“For time is the longest distance between two places.” ~ Tennessee Williams
- “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” ~ Robert H. Schuller
- “Tempus fugit (time flies).” ~ Ovid
- “Lost time is never found again.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
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“To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.” ~ Leonard Bernstein
- “Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.” ~ Wayne Dyer
- “Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.” ~ William Faulkner , Time quotes for watches
- “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
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“Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.” ~ Jean de la Bruyere
- “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
- “Time’s the king of men; he’s both their parent, and he is their grave and gives them what he will, not what they crave.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.” ~ Anais Nin
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“Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.” ~ Jerome K. Jerome
- “There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you’d better learn the sound of it. Otherwise, you’ll never understand what it’s saying.” ~ Sarah Dessen
- “Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.” ~ Auguste Rodin
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“The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now.” ~ Rick Warren
- “Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is it’s current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
- “The big things that come our way are … the fruit of seeds planted in the daily routine of our work.” ~ William Feather
- “But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
Summary: Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future.
