Time - Quotes

All time exists. That is the truth.... If the future did not exist now, how could we journey toward it? If the past does not exist still, how could we leave it behind? - Gene Wolfe

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - J. R. R. Tolkien

Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor. - Paul Hawken

As the old saying goes, a man with one watch always knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never sure. - Daniel J. Levitin

As we speak, cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in tomorrow. - Horace

By losing present time, we lose all time. - W. Gurney Benham

Come what may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day. - Unknown

Days, months, years fly away, and irrecoverably sink in the abyss of time. - Jean de la Bruyere

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

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure. - Benjamin Franklin

Everything that was, is and ever could be, is contained within this present moment. Time is merely a construct of a wholly false perception. - Unknown

Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone. - Alan Lightman

For though time may seem to drag slowly on, before you will know it, time will be gone. - Martha Lavinia Hoffman

Gain control of your time, and you will gain control of your life. - John L. Mason

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils, for time is the greatest innovator. - Francis Bacon

He who forces time is pushed back by time; he who yields to time finds time on his side. - Unknown

How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear. - Marcus Aurelius

I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves. - Lord Chesterfield

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. - William Shakespeare

I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours. - Bernard Berenson

If a person gives you his time, he can give you no more precious gift. - Unknown

If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time. - Richard Cecil

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality. - Benjamin Franklin

If you can go back in time for five years, what would you do differently? You cannot go back in time, but you can think five years ahead – Now! - Unknown

If you nurture your mind, body, and spirit, your time will expand. You will gain a new perspective that will allow you to accomplish much more. - Brian Koslow

In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one’s life. - Marcel Proust

In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us. - Osbert Sitwell

In times like these, it is helpful to remember that there have always been times like these. - Paul Harvey

Indifferent to the affairs of men, time runs out, precise, heedless, exact, and immutable in rhythm. - Erwin Sylvanus

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

It's not about how much time you have, it's about what you choose to do with it. - Rebecca Wilson

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. - Charles Dickens

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

Know the true value of time! Snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. - Lord Chesterfield Stanhope

Let every man be master of his time. - William Shakespeare 

Lost time is never found again. - John H. Aughey

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

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

Man's most prudent counsellor is time. - Publilius Syrus

Men have contrived instruments to measure the motion of time, but they have no scales to weigh, no figures to compute, no words to describe its value. - John Thornton

Modern man thinks he loses something; time; when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains; except kill it. - Erich Fromm

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it, no small deduction from the life of man. - Charles Caleb Colton

My favourite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time. - Steve Jobs

No man can stay the passage of time however happy his life may be. Time, like an omnipotent policeman moves us all on willy-nilly. This ceaseless passage of time is so obvious a quality of our lives that we take it for granted. Within this ceaseless movement, all things we know are born, grow, decay and die, and we along with them. -  K. Sri Dhammananda

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. - Auguste Rodin

O time, arrest your flight! and you, propitious hours, arrest your course! Let us savour the fleeting delights of our most beautiful days! - Alphonse de Lamartine

Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger! - Lord Bryon

On the human imagination, events produce the effects of time. Thus, he who has travelled far and seen much, is apt to fancy that he has lived long; and the history that most abounds in important incidents, soonest assumes the aspect of antiquity. - James Fenimore Cooper

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year – and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade! - Tony Robbins

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One day you will hear the sound of time rustling as it slips through your fingers like sand. - Sergei Lukyanenko

One must work with time and not again it. - Ursula K. Le Guin

One thing you can not recycle is wasted time. Lost time is never found again. - Unknown

One who daily puts the finishing touches on his life is never in want of time. - Seneca

Only time conquers time and its burdens. - Dean Koontz

Our time is brief, and it will pass no matter what we do. So let us have purpose in spending it. Let us spend it so that our time matters to each of us, and matters to all those whose lives we touch. - Philip Zimbardo

Our time's the most precious thing we've got to offer folks, and the worst thing a body can do is to take it away from us. - Charles de Lint

Quit saying you don't have time. You have time for what you make time for in life. - Bryant McGill

Remember that time is money. - Benjamin Franklin

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence – neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish – it is an imponderably valuable gift. - Maya Angelou

Take time by the forelock. - Charles Dickens

Take time to work – it is the price of success. Take time to think – it is the source of power. Take time to play – it is the secret of perpetual youth. Take time to read – it is the foundation of wisdom. Take time to be friendly – it is the road to happiness. Take time to dream – it is hitching your wagon to a star. Take time to laugh – it is the music of the soul. Take time with God – it is the source of strength. - Unknown

The bad news is that time flies. The good news is that you're the pilot. - Ben Willis

The days are such a repetition of each other that they sometimes seem very long, but when one pauses and looks back one starts at the accumulation of departed time, and deplores the swiftness of the seasons. - Robert Grant

The end we know not; but we wander on, down the regretful wilderness of time. - Henry Abbey

The grand instructor, time. - Edmund Burke

The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown. Nothing is impossible. - Sophocles

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

The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done… you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do. - Lil Wayne

The most difficult thing about Time, I have learned, is doing it. - Roger Zelazny

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once. - Albert Einstein

The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it. - Sydney J. Harris

The time will pass anyway. You can either spend it creating the life you want or spend it living the life you don’t want. The choice is yours. - Unknown

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. - Bertrand Russell

There are a million ways to lose a day, but not even a single way to get one back. Do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. The ability to concentrate and use your time well is everything. - Lee Iacocca 

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. - Ernest Hemingway

There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen. - Unknown

There is always time to make right what is wrong. - Susan Griffin

There is never enough time, unless you’re serving it. - Malcolm Forbes

There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous; since without it we can do nothing in this world. - William Penn

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: Time. - Napoleon Bonaparte

There is time for everything. - Thomas A. Edison

There was a time when time did not yet exist. - Emil Cioran

There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want. - Bill Watterson

There’s time enough, but none to spare. - Charles W. Chesnutt

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

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness. - Jean De La Bruyere

Those who understand the value of time use it as prudent people do their money – they make a little go a great way. - Eliza Cook

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent. - Charles Caleb Colton

Time as he grows old teaches all things. - Aeschylus

Time be thine, and thy best graces spend it at thy will. - William Shakespeare

Time brings all things to pass. - Aeschylus

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change. - Thomas Hardy

Time changes the nature of the whole world; everything passes from one state to another and nothing stays like itself. - Lucretius

Time cleanses what it touches over time. - Aeschylus

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. - Mark Twain

Time discovers truth. - Lucius Seneca

Time does not pass, it continues. - Marty Rubin

Time doesn’t actually exist. Clock exists. Time is just an agreed upon construct. We have taken distance (one rotation of the Earth and one orbit of the sun), divided it up into segments, then given those segments labels. While it has its uses, we have been programmed to live our lives by this construct as if it were real. We have confused our shared construct with something that is tangible and thus have become its slave. - Unknown

Time felt slower when we do nothing but wait. - Toba Beta

Time flies never to be recalled. - Virgil

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Time flies. Time waits for no man. Time heals all wounds. All any of us wants is more time. Time to stand up. Time to grow up. Time to let go. Time. - Dr. Meredith Grey

Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures. - Jorge Luis Borges

Time gives birth to both judge and jury. - Unknown

Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters. - Margaret Peters

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance. Moments pass swiftly or as eternities depending upon our state of mind – or rather how we are willing to suspend our minds. It is often said that there are those who can experience more in a moment than some can experience in a lifetime. Time is relative. It is ours, given freely to spend wisely or to squander idly, but never to be hoarded. Time past is gone and all the moaning will never bring it back. - Leo Buscaglia

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. - Thomas Mann

Time is a created thing. To say "I don't have time" is to say "I don't want to." - Lao Tzu

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

Time is a kind of river, an irresistible flood sweeping up men and events and carrying them headlong, one after the other, to the great sea of being. - Marcus Aurelius

Time is always relative.... For the terminally ill, six months are a lifetime, and not a very long one. To a three-year-old waiting for Christmas, it's an eternity so distant it's not even worth thinking about. - John Saul

Time is but the stream I go a fishing in. - Henry David Thoreau

Time is just quantified eternity. - Deepak Chopra

Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time. The Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time – past and futre – the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is. - Eckhart Tolle

Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others. - Unknown

Time is a fixed income and, as with any income, the real problem facing most of us is how to live successfully within our daily allotment. - Margaret B. Johnstone

Time is a silent and invisible collaborator. - Jane Hirschfield

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its 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

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes in a day. - Denis Waitley

Time is generally the best doctor. - Ovid

Time is like a river. You cannot touch the same water twice, because the flow that has passed will never pass again. Enjoy every moment of life. - Unknown

Time is like a handful of sand – the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers. - Unknown

Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go. - Josh Billings

Time is like the ocean, always there, always different. - Ogden Nash

Time is money. - Benjamin Franklin

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time. - Jim Rohn

Time is nature’s way of preventing everything from happening at once. - Grafitto

Time is not a commodity, something you pass around like cake. Time is the substance of life. When anyone asks you to give your time, they are really asking for a chunk of your life. - Unknown

Time is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary. - Ivy Compton-Burnett

Time is not a thing that passes ... it's a sea on which you float. - Margaret Atwood

Time is short. Seventy years in the eye of youthful fancy seems a vast and almost boundless space; but in the estimate of sage experience, and in the full view of eternity, they contract to a span and dwindle to a point. - John Thornton

Time is that in which all things pass away. - Schopenhauer

Time is the backdrop of our lives and the very fabric of the cosmos. - Philip Zimbardo

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. - Carl Sandburg

Time is the devourer of all things. - Ovid

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time. - Denis Waitley

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of lightning, at once exists and expires. - Charles Caleb Colton

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

Time is the only critic without ambition. - John Steinbeck

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

Time is too short in this one life to be able to do everything, but it definitely is long enough at least to be able to develop the will to do anything and everything. - Sujit Lalwani

Time isn't precious at all, because it is an illusion. - Eckhart Tolle

Time makes more converts than reason. - Thomas Paine

Time matters because we are finite, because time is the medium in which we live our lives. - Philip Zimbardo

Time neither flies nor sleeps. It is flexible, plastic, ever changing. Spend two hours watching a movie curled up with your lover and time ceases to exist. Spend two hours waiting for your lover to come and time is the iron bars of a prison. - Chloe Thurlow

Time raises standards. If we could bring one of today’s technologies back one hundred years, we would be worshipped like gods. Today, even the landing of a man on Mars will be considered a fairly mundane event. - Unknown

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

Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest. - Amos Bronson Alcott

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 spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead. - Unknown

Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendour. - Horatius

Time will explain.- Jane Austen

Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler, and speaks even when not asked. - Euripedes

Time will tell... it always does. - Unknown

Time won’t make you forget, it will make you grow and understand things. - Unknown

Time wounds all heals. - Tracy Letts

Time, for all its smuggling in of new problems conspicuously cancels others. - Unknown

Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning. We give our own meaning to time, as to life. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Time, place and space are illusions, having no existence save in the mind of man which must set limits and bounds in order to understand. - Robert E. Howard

Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day? - Ralph Hodgson

Time. Like a petal in the wind, flows softly by. As old lives are taken, new ones begin. A continual chain, which lasts throughout eternity. Every life but a minute in time, but each of equal importance.  - Cindy Cheney

To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom. - Bertrand Russell

To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to spend or waste, and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever. - Bruce Lee

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

Wait for that wisest of counsellors, Time. - Pericles

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

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they’re called memories. Some take us forward, they’re called dreams. - Jeremy Irons

We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them. - Seneca

We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves. - George Matthew Adams

We give our time away all day long, to emotions that gain us no advantages, to people who do not value our time, to inefficient habits. If you want to take back this time, you need to cut to the chase. - Stuart R. Levine

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch. - John F. Kennedy

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. - Nelson Mendela

We never shall have any more time we have, and we have always had, all the time there is. - Arnold Bennett

What can be done at any time is never done at all. - Unknown

Well, we think that time "passes," flows past us, but what if it is we who move forward, from past to future, always discovering the new? It would be a little like reading a book, you see. The book is all there, all at once, between its covers. But if you want to read the story and understand it, you must begin with the first page, and go forward, always in order. So the universe would be a very great book, and we would be very small readers. - Ursula K. la Guin

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time. - Edgar Watson Howe

When the time is right, you just got to do it. - Jack Simplot

When things don't please you, the best medicine is to swallow a little tincture of time. - Ken Alstad

Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got. - Art Buchwald

While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back. - Alan Lightman

With time even a bear can learn to dance. - Yiddish Proverb

You may ask me for anything you like except time. - Napoleon Bonaparte

You will never ‘find’ time for anything. If you want time you must make it. - Charles Buxton

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. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. - Steve Jobs 

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

How to stop time: meditate.

How to travel in time: read.

How to escape time: music.

How to feel time: write.

How to waste time: gossip. - Unknown