Tag: Time Quotes

Time flies like an arrow

“The bottom line is that time is more precious than money. You can always get more money, but you can’t get more time. When you spend a day doing something, you have one less day to spend in another way.” – Jim Rohn

“The greatest gift you can give someone is your time because when you give your time, you are giving a portion of your life that you will never get back.” – Anonymous

“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” – Leo Tolstoy

“You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.” – Charles Brixton

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good person should be. Be one.” – Marcus Aurelius

“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.” – Emily Dickinson

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.” – Seneca 

“You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.” – Charles Buxton

“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.” – Rabindranath Tagore

“Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.” – Paolo Sorrentino

“Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.” – Steven Wright

“Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.” – Groucho Marx

“I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.” – Mark Twain

“I’ve been on a calendar, but never on time.” –  Marilyn Monroe

“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.” – Thomas Paine 

“No man is quick enough to enjoy life to the full.” – Spanish proverb

“Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.” – Jean de la Bruyere

“In our fast-moving modern world, it always seems that the time-train is pulling out of the station just as we reach the platform. No matter how fast we go, no matter how cleverly we schedule, there are never enough hours in the day.” – Carl Honore

“Time is: too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear.” – Henry Van Dyke

Time is precious

“No time? Switch off the TV. Television is our biggest enemy.” – Josie Cluney

“The time to act will never be right, make your move before you are ready, and everything will fall into place.”

“Time is precious.” – Anonymous

“We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.” – Nelson Mandela

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” – Marthe Troly-Curtin

“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” –  Napoleon Hill

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

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

“Enjoy yourself. It’s later than you think.” – Chinese proverb 

“Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.” – William Shakespeare

“Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.” – Earl Nightingale

“Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.” – Charles Caleb Colton

“Time is your most important resource. You can do so much in ten minutes.” – Ingvar Kamprad

“Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment. That is what’s real.” – Sara Paddison

“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” – Warren Buffett 

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

“Who knows where the time goes?” – Nina Simone

“How did it get so late so soon?” – Dr. Seuss

“Time! The corrector when our judgments err.” –  Lord Byron

“Vacations are an expensive way to schedule time to pause and reflect.” –  Shane Parrish

This is a new beginning

“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much can be done if we are always doing.” – Thomas Jefferson

“Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was — only is.” – William Faulkner

“Time is generally the best doctor.” – Ovid

“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

“People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.” – Seneca

“Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.” – Unknown

“Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Robert H. Schuller 

“You’re going to go through tough times – that’s life. But I say, ‘Nothing happens to you, it happens for you’. See the positive in negative events.” – Joel Osteen

“This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.” – Taylor Swift

“No one will bring back the years; no one will restore you to yourself. Life will follow the path it began to take, and will neither reverse nor check its course.” – Seneca

“Left alone in time, memories harden into summaries. The originals become almost irretrievable.” – Sarah Manguso

“Time punishes us by taking everything, but it also saves us — by taking everything.” – Sarah Manguso

“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.” – Cormac McCarthy

“Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased.” – Joel Osteen

“I’d trade all my tomorrows for one single yesterday.” – Kris Kristofferson

“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” – Jack Kerouac

“I can’t go back to yesterday – because I was a different person then.” – Lewis Carroll

“Both in thought and in feeling, even though time is real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.” – Bertrand Russell

“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 future — the more you miss Now, the most precious thing there is.” – Eckhart Tolle

“To save time, stop looking for shortcuts.” – Shane Parrish

Time is neutral and does not change things

“No time like the present.” – Mrs. Manley

“The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.” – Bruce Lee

“Every moment alters what came before. We reach across layers of time for the memories of our memories.” – James Gleick

“Do not waste time on things you cannot change or influence.” – Robert Greene

“When our memories outweigh our dreams, we have grown old.” – Bill Clinton

“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Decide what your priorities are and how much time you’ll spend on them. If you don’t, someone else will.” – Harvey Mackay

“We must use time creatively.” – Martin Luther King Jr

“Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.” – Jesse Jackson

“Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the ‘hero’ within us is revealed.” – Bob Riley

“If only time could be seen whole, then you could see the past remaining intact, instead of vanishing in the rearview mirror. There is your immortality. Frozen in amber.” – James Gleick

“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.” – Zig Ziglar

“Nobody works out the value of time: men use it lavishly as if it costs nothing… We have to be more careful in preserving what will cease at an unknown point.” – Seneca

“The moment is not properly an atom of time but an atom of eternity. It is the first reflection of eternity in time, its first attempt, as it were, at stopping time.” – Søren Kierkegaard

“Time — particularly our experience of it as a continuity of successive moments — is a cognitive illusion rather than an inherent feature of the universe, a construction of human consciousness and perhaps the very hallmark of human consciousness.” – Maria Popova

“If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo

“Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.” – Herbert Gesser

“A single clock works only as long as it refers, sooner or later, obviously or not, to the other clocks around it. One can rage about it, and we do. But without a clock and the dais of time, we each rage in silence, alone.” – Alan Burdick

“Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.” – Zig Ziglar

Time is precious

“Time itself comes in drops.” – William James

“In time and with water, everything changes.” – Leonardo da Vinci

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

“The most fucked up joke life can play on you is letting you meet the right person at the wrong time.” – Unknown

“No relationship is a waste of time. The wrong ones teach you the lessons that prepare you for the right one.” – Unknown

“Sometimes your heart needs more time to accept what your mind already knows.” – Unknown

“Believe me, it is the sign of a great man, and one who is above human error, not to allow his time to be frittered away: he has the longest possible life simply because whatever time was available he devoted entirely to himself.” – Seneca

“You get to decide where your time goes. You can either spend it moving forward, or you can spend it putting out fires. You decide. And if you don’t decide, others will decide for you.” – Tony Morgan

“Whenever we talk about it, we do so in terms of something lesser. We find or lose time, like a set of keys; we save and spend it, like money. Time creeps, crawls, flies, flees, flows, and stands still; it is abundant or scarce; it weighs on us with palpable heft.” – Alan Burdick

“Those who possess time are often not aware of its value.” – Sunday Adelaja

“Time stays long enough for those who use it.” – Leonardo da Vinci 

“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” – Michael Altshuler

“The essence of self-discipline is to do the important thing rather than the urgent thing.” – Barry Werner

“The shorter way to do many things is to only do one thing at a time.” – Mozart 

“It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.” – Doris Lessing

“Time is the longest distance between two places.” – Tennessee Williams

“Time brings an end to everything. We should not mistake for a tragedy what is no more than the passage of time.” – Robert Brault

“Time is a killer. Everyone knows that. Time will bury us. I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. Time makes dust of all things.” – James Gleick

“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.” – Bob Dylan

“Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.” – Benjamin Disraeli