Top 200 Time Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.”

— Sam Levenson

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2. “Lost time is never found again.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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3. “You will never ‘find’ time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.”

— Charles Buxton

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4. “Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. ”

— Dale Carnegie

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5. “Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.”

— Jim Rohn

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6. “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”

— Annie Dillard

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7. “Today is the first day of the rest of your life.”

— Abbie Hoffman

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Moving On Quotes

8. “Time is valuable, and when it is gone, it is gone. Time is wealth, and unlike money, when it is gone, you cannot replace it.”

— Napoleon Hill

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9. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.”

— Robert H. Schuller

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10. “I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.”

— Albert Einstein

Also featured in: Clever Quotes

11. “Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.”

— Auguste Rodin

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Short Quotes About Life, Artist Quotes

12. “Time is money.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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13. “Light tomorrow with today!”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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14. “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

Also featured in: Motivational Monday Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes

15. “Time is the fire in which we burn.”

— Gene Roddenberry

Also featured in: Quotes About Reality, Quotes About Fire

16. “The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Aesthetic Quotes, Different Quotes

17. “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”

— Mark Twain

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18. “It has been said, ‘time heals all wounds.’ I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”

— Rose Kennedy

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19. “Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.”

— William Penn

Also featured in: Life Is Short Quotes

20. “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”

— Mother Teresa

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

— Thomas Paine

Also featured in: Peace Quotes, Sacrifice Quotes, Veteran's Day Quotes

22. “Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.”

— Groucho Marx

Also featured in: Funny Quotes, Silly Quotes, Hilarious Quotes, Clever Quotes

23. “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

Also featured in: Interesting Quotes, Short Quotes About Life, Inspirational Life Quotes, Friday Motivational Quotes

24. “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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

— Lewis Carroll

Also featured in: Experience Quotes, Short Quotes About Life, Individuality Quotes

26. “Time is the longest distance between two places.”

— Tennessee Williams

Also featured in: Distance Quotes

27. “Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.”

— Charles Dickens

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28. “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”

— Leo Tolstoy

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29. “One today is worth two tomorrows. Lost time is never found again. Time is money. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff that life is made of. You may delay, but time will not.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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30. “Time – the one asset none of us are ever gonna get more of.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Live Life Quotes, Hustle Quotes

31. “Time is your most precious resource; make every minute count.”

— Brian Tracy

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32. “If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”

— Bruce Lee

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33. “Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.”

— Haruki Murakami

Also featured in: Depressing Quotes, Sad Quotes, Past Quotes

34. “The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.”

— Stephen R. Covey

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35. “It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.”

— Seneca the Younger

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Meaningful Quotes, Intelligent Quotes, Life Is Short Quotes

36. “Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.”

— Peter F. Drucker

Also featured in: Efficiency Quotes, Time Management Quotes

37. “Welcome to the present moment. Here. Now. The only moment there ever is.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Reflection Quotes

38. “The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.”

— Randy Pausch

Also featured in: Decision-Making Quotes

39. “The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”

— Bertrand Russell

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Positive Life Quotes, Enjoy Life Quotes, Perspective Quotes

40. “Time is your most precious commodity and yet most of us live our lives as if we have all the time in the world.”

— Robin S. Sharma

41. “If you don’t make the time to work on creating the life you want, you’re eventually going to be forced to spend a lot of time dealing with a life you don’t want.”

— Kevin Ngo

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42. “Time is a resource that is non-renewable and non-transferable. You cannot store it, slow it up, hold it up, divide it up or give it up. You can’t hoard it up or save it for a rainy day – when it’s lost it is unrecoverable. When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.”

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

43. “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”

— Stephen R. Covey

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Business Quotes, Goal Quotes

44. “Focus on being productive instead of busy.”

— Tim Ferriss

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Action Quotes, Productivity Quotes

45. “Starve your distractions, feed your focus.”

— Anonymous

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes, Mind Quotes

46. “Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Enlightenment Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes

47. “Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”

— Pablo Picasso

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Persistence Quotes

48. “Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.”

— Ally Condie

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Relationship Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Life Is Short Quotes

49. “There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you’d better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you’ll never understand what it’s saying.”

— Sarah Dessen

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50. “We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”

— Tom Robbins

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