Top 200 Time Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”

— Allen Saunders

52. “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

53. “You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”

— John Green

54. “You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life.”

— Warren Buffett

55. “You may delay, but time will not.”

— Benjamin Franklin

56. “Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.”

— Samuel Ullman

57. “Be here now.”

— Ram Dass

58. “Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

59. “If you don’t have time, the truth is, you don’t have priorities. Think harder; don’t work harder.”

— Tim Ferriss

60. “While we wait for life, life passes.”

— Seneca

61. “Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.”

— Aristotle

62. “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”

— Parkinson's law

63. “Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy!”

— Brian Tracy

64. “We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.”

— Nelson Mandela

65. “So many books, so little time.”

— Frank Zappa

66. “Time stays long enough for those who use it.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

67. “Confine yourself to the present.”

— Marcus Aurelius

68. “Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.”

— Stephen R. Covey

69. “Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live.”

— Marcus Aurelius

70. “My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.”

— Charles Dickens

71. “Make time, not excuses.”

— Grant Cardone

72. “Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”

— Oscar Wilde

73. “The strongest of all warriors are these two – Time and Patience.”

— Leo Tolstoy

74. “Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”

— Seneca

75. “Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.”

— Tim Ferriss

76. “Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.”

— Tim Ferriss

77. “One today is worth two tomorrows.”

— Benjamin Franklin

78. “The future is a concept, it doesn’t exist. There is no such thing as tomorrow. There never will be, because time is always now. That’s one of the things we discover when we stop talking to ourselves and stop thinking. We find there is only present, only an eternal now.”

— Alan Watts

79. “You can lose money and make it back, you can’t do that with time.”

— Tim Ferriss

80. “Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

81. “Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery and self-control more than anything else.”

— Brian Tracy

82. “Good things take time, as they should. We shouldn’t expect good things to happen overnight. Actually, getting something too easily or too soon can cheapen the outcome.”

— John Wooden

83. “The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.”

— Nolan Bushnell

84. “Now is the time to fix the next 10 years.”

— Jim Rohn

85. “Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession.”

— Dale Carnegie

86. “My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.”

— Steve Jobs

87. “Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.”

— John Wooden

88. “Make each day your masterpiece. Life is now. Life is not later on.”

— John Wooden

89. “Life is a game board. Time is your opponent. If you procrastinate, you will lose the game. You must make a move to be victorious.”

— Napoleon Hill

90. “Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.”

— William Wordsworth

91. “A goal without a deadline is just a dream.”

— Robert Herjavec

92. “You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”

— Henry David Thoreau

93. “Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

94. “Do it now. Sometimes ‘Later’ becomes ‘Never’”

— Anonymous

95. “Life is long, if you know how to use it.”

— Seneca

96. “There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.”

— Brian Tracy

97. “That old law about ‘an eye for an eye’ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

98. “The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.”

— Melody Beattie

99. “Nothing stays forever. Good as well as bad times go away. Be happy.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

100. “There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It’s up to you to decide what to do with them.”

— Jim Valvano