Time Quotes

Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn’t spend half our time wishing.
Alexander Woollcott

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
Dion Boucicault

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.
Baltasar Gracian

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

Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.
Lisa Alther

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 the wisest counsellor.
Pericles

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

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Theophrastus

Time makes more converts than reason.
Thomas Paine

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

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

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
Jim Bishop

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.
John Archibald Wheeler

If time flies when you’re having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don’t think you’re having enough.
Jef Mallett

The clock talked loud.  I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.
Tillie Olsen

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
Jane Austen

But what minutes!  Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
Benjamin Disraeli

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.
Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

Time wastes our bodies and our wits, but we waste time, so we are quits.
Author Unknown

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
Douglas Adams

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.
John B. Priestly

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.
Chuck Sigars

How long a minute is, depends on which side of the bathroom door you’re on.
Zall’s Second Law

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.
Bonnie Friedman

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
Louis Hector Berlioz

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

Tough times never last, but tough people do!
Robert Schuller

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

The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time.
Leo Kennedy

Dost thou love life? Then waste not time; for time is the stuff that life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin

I’ve been on a calendar but I have never been on time.
Marilyn Monroe

There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.
Brian Tracy

Time and tide wait for none.
A proverb

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.
Lucille S. Harper

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

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift, that is why they call it the present.
Kung Fu Panda

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

He that rises late must trot all day.
Benjamin Franklin

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.
Charles Dickens

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

No man goes before his time — unless the boss leaves early.
Groucho Marx

Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.
Sir William Osler

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day.
Benjamin Franklin

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

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

So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man’s genius contracts itself to a very few hours.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin

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

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
Baltasar Gracian

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

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
Winston Churchill

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