Reading through these positive time quotes will give you some perspective and help you become a better version of yourself.
Whether it’s inspirational time quotes, or simply powerful time quotes, taking a few minutes out to reflect is critical. I hope you’ll find something here that helps you to find a new perspective and improve your own life.
I thought I would compile a list of famous quotes on time, which may guide you through life.
Inspirational Time Quotes
Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. Marthe Troly-Curtin
Time is the least thing we have of. Ernest Hemingway
Time is long but life is short. Stevie Wonder
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin. Mother Teresa
There are no secrets that time does not reveal. Jean Racine
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. Anthony G. Oettinger
Time is the wisest counselor of all. Pericles
Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. Coco Chanel
Time isn’t the main thing. It’s the only thing. Miles Davis
An inch of time is an inch of gold but you can’t buy that inch of time with an inch of gold. Chinese Proverb
The most precious resource we all have is time. Steve Jobs
Time is the longest distance between two places. Tennessee Williams
The trouble is, you think you have time. Buddha
We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it. Roald Dahl
Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters. Margaret Peters
Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. Dion Boucicault
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. Charles Darwin
Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy. Roy T. Bennett
Time will pass and seasons will come and go. Roy Bean
We should always allow some time to elapse, for time discloses the truth. Seneca
We must use time as a tool, not as a couch. John F. Kennedy
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. Henry David Thoreau
Time and health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted. Denis Waitley
Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. Napoleon Hill
No man goes before his time. Unless the boss leaves early. Groucho Marx
Value of Time Quotes
Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time. Jim Rohn
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
The key is to have a balanced life. Set aside a fraction of your time to carry out your dreams and ambitions. Michael 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
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. C.S. Lewis
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
The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot. Michael Altshuler
Time is the one thing we all have in common, but it is also the one thing that we all use differently. Catherine Pulsifer
Time is what we want most but what we use worst. William Penn
There’s only one thing more precious than our time and that’s who we spend it on. Leo Christopher
Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can’t relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don’t know if there is one. George Harrison
They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite Cassandra Clare
An inch of time is an inch of gold, but you can’t buy that inch of time with an inch of gold. Chinese Proverb
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. Theophrastus
There are moments and days when I want to freeze time, and there are days I wish away. Sarah Williams
Tough times never last, but tough people do. Robert H. Schuller
There’s never enough time to do it right, but there’s always enough time to do it over. Jack Bergman
It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning. Vincent Van Gogh
Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Stephen King
Punctuality is the thief of time. Oscar Wilde
A man who dares to waste an hour of time has not discovered the value of life. Charles Darwin
Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time,’ is like saying, ‘I don’t want to. Lao Tzu
Life is all about having a good time. Miley Cyrus
We feast on time as time feasts on us. Maria Popova
Ordinary people think merely of spending time, great people think of using it. Arthur Schopenhauer
Short Time Quotes
No use thinking of the past for its gone, don’t think of the future because it has to come, think of the present because that’s where you are. Kazi Shams
Time is a gift that most of us take for granted. We get so caught up in the busyness of our daily lives that we rarely stop and take a serious look at how we’re spending this gift. Cheryl Richardson
The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can’t save time. You can only spend it. But you can spend it wisely or foolishly. Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh
If time flies when you’re having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don’t think you’re having enough. Jef Mallett
Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people. Michelle Obama
All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that. Baltasar Gracian
Someday is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Timothy Ferriss
Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present. Bil Keane
I am not particularly interested in saving time; I prefer to enjoy it. Eduardo Galeano
It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s forgotten. Anna Wintour
If one has no time, one has also lost oneself. Marc Wittmann
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind. Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun
Do we need more time? Or do we need to be more disciplined with the time we have? Kerry Johnson
I don’t need time, I need a deadline. Duke Ellington
Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn. Delmore Schwartz
Each day a day goes by. Carlo Goldoni
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. George Eliot
Time is what keeps everything from happening at once. Ray Cummings, The Girl in the Golden Atom
All great achievements require time. Maya Angelou
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
Time flies. It’s up to you to be the navigator. Robert Orben
It’s not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it. Seneca
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late. William Shakespeare
The past always looks better than it was. It’s only pleasant because it isn’t here. Finley Peter Dunne
People often complain about lack of time when lack of direction is the real problem. Zig Ziglar
Meaningful Time Quotes
Time and tide wait for no man. Geoffrey Chaucer
Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey. Captain Jean-Luc Picard
The timeless in you is aware of life’s timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream. Kahlil Gibran
Time moves slowly, but passes quickly. Alice Walker, The Color Purple
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it. Leonardo da Vinci
The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time. William Butler Yeats
You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it. Charles Buxton
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. Leo Tolstoy
There is no time like the present to start making changes, but I have found that the best time is to start by going about your day differently as soon as you wake up. Kevin Kerr
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
You can’t turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again. Bonnie Prudden
Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30. Robert Frost
How can we resent the life we’ve created for ourselves? Who’s to blame, who’s to credit, but us? Who can change it, any time we wish, but us? Richard Bach
The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Time will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead”. Harry Potter
There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time. Coco Chanel
The time is always right to do the right thing. Martin Luther King Jr.
A birthday wish for you to enjoy the time you’ve been given. Cherish every year that comes your way. Danielle Duckery
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. Emily Dickinson
We go back and forth between being time’s master and its victim. James Gleick
Everything that you want to be good at requires time, patience, and lots of repetition and practice. Rohen Phoenix
Time you enjoy wasted was not time wasted. John Lennon
Time is precious. Make sure you spend it with the right people. Unknown