Time is a fascinating thing, and these 101 quotes about time will get you thinking about life and the effects of time.
Many of these time quotes could inspire you, motivate you, make you ponder, and think about time. Some may even move you or make you a little sad.
So take some time out of your day to read some of the best inspirational time quotes, that will help you reflect on the passing of time.
Time Quotes
Enjoy reading through 101 of the best and most popular time quotes.
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
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
– Andy Warhol
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
– Bertrand Russell
Time is money.
– Benjamin Franklin
Waste your money and you’re only out of money, but waste your time and you’ve lost a part of your life.
– Michael LeBoeuf
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
– Charles Buxton
Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.
– Faith Baldwin
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
But time growing old teaches all things.
– Aeschylus
Time is nature’s way of keeping everything from happening at once.
– John Archibald Wheeler
There’s time enough, but none to spare.
– Charles W. Chesnutt
Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.
– Daniel J. Boorstin
On your journey, don’t forget to smell the flowers. Take time out to notice that you’re alive. You can only live in one day.
– Ray Fearon
To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.
– Leonard Bernstein
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
– Hector Berlioz
It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don’t agree. The wounds remain. Time – the mind, protecting its sanity – covers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.
– Rose Kennedy
Time is the wisest counselor of all.
– Pericles
All great achievements require time.
– Maya Angelou
Perfection is the child of time.
– Joseph Hall
People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.
– John Wanamaker
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
– Dorothea Lange
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
– Samuel Smiles
The true currency of life is time, not money, and we’ve all got a limited stock of that.
– Robert Harris
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
– Jean de La Fontaine
Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.
– Samuel Gompers
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
– Charles Darwin
Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.
– Napoleon Hill
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.
– Albert Einstein
Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I’m on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoint of time, standing on the foreboding – yet beautiful – Sea of Tranquility. I could see our shining blue planet Earth poised in the darkness of space.
– Buzz Aldrin
There are no secrets that time does not reveal.
– Jean Racine
We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.
– John F. Kennedy
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
– William Penn
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
– George Bernard Shaw
At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
– Barbara Bush
Friends are thieves of time.
– Francis Bacon
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
– Marie Curie
Lost time is never found again.
– Benjamin Franklin
We must use time creatively.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
– Leonardo da Vinci
Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
– Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
– Dion Boucicault
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
The best way to fill time is to waste it.
– Marguerite Duras
Time and tide wait for no man.
– Geoffrey Chaucer
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
– Theophrastus
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.
– Bruce Lee
Time was God’s first creation.
– Walter Lang
When in doubt, take more time.
– John Zimmerman
When Time is spent, Eternity begins.
– Helen Hunt Jackson
Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
– Max Frisch
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
– Maya Angelou
We are time’s subjects, and time bids be gone.
– William Shakespeare
Procrastination is the thief of time.
– Edward Young
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
Time is flying never to return.
– Virgil
The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.
– Francoise Sagan
Time makes more converts than reason.
– Thomas Paine
Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.
– Ivan Turgenev
Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
– Ben Hecht
Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
– Giordano Bruno
You may delay, but time will not.
– Benjamin Franklin
Time brings all things to pass.
– Aeschylus
For time is the longest distance between two places.
– Tennessee Williams
We have not the time to take our time.
– Eugene Ionesco
We must go fast, because the race is against time.
– Anna Held
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
– Auguste Rodin
Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important.
– Mariel Hemingway
Time, the devourer of all things.
– Ovid
Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.
– Alan Lakein
I confess, I do not believe in time.
– Vladimir Nabokov
The time to hesitate is through.
– Robby Krieger
Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.
– Thomas Huxley
Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time.
– John Cale
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
– Leo Tolstoy
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
– Steve Jobs
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
– Tom Robbins
It takes discipline not to let social media steal your time.
– Alexis Ohanian
We’re all just passing time and occupy our chair very briefly.
– John Hurt
Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.
– Steven Wright
It’s pretty scary to know how quickly time flies.
– James Wan
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
– Mark Twain
Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.
– E. T. Bell
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.
– Octavia E. Butler
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
– Jack London
There’s no time for regrets. You’ve just got to keep moving forward.
– Mike McCready
If something’s important to you, you make time for it.
– Mia Maestro
The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.
– Gregory Nunn
Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
– George Herbert
Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don’t support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck.
– James Altucher
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
– Paramahansa Yogananda
Don’t waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind.
– Mary Schmich
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
– Thomas A. Edison
I don’t want to miss out on the chance of having a good time.
– Victor Webster
We’re all so busy we don’t make time to enjoy our lives, good company and good food.
– John Torode
FOMO (fear of missing out) is the enemy of valuing your own time.
– Andrew Yang
Time is the fire in which we burn.
– Gene Roddenberry
I believe there is a time for everything. Time changes, and you need to accept that. Else, you stagnate.
– Manisha Koirala
You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
– Charles Kettering
The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.
– David Bowie
Tea time is a chance to slow down, pull back and appreciate our surroundings.
– Letitia Baldrige
The time is always right to do what is right.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
You’ll have time to rest when you’re dead.
– Robert De Niro
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