Top 200 Time Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.”

— Frank Zappa

102. “No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go.”

— Henry Rollins

103. “As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”

— Henry David Thoreau

104. “Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.”

— Eckhart Tolle

105. “They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.”

— Khalil Gibran

106. “Don’t waste time waiting for inspiration. Begin, and inspiration will find you.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

107. “Let our New Year’s resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.”

— Goran Persson

108. “One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.”

— Carl Sagan

109. “Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.”

— Marcus Aurelius

110. “Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.”

— William Shakespeare

111. “Go to bed early and wake up early. The morning hours are good.”

— Jeff Bezos

112. “For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.”

— Alan Watts

113. “Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow – that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”

— Leo Tolstoy

114. “I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.”

— Alan Watts

115. “God’s timing is always perfect. Trust His delays. He’s got you.”

— Tony Evans

116. “Life is available only in the present moment.”

— Nhat Hanh

117. “Time And health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.”

— Denis Waitley

118. “I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

119. “Time waits for no one.”

— Yasutaka Tsutsui

120. “I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.”

— Stephen Grellet

121. “As time goes on, you’ll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn’t, doesn’t. Time solves most things. And what time can’t solve, you have to solve yourself.”

— Haruki Murakami

122. “Time and tide wait for no man.”

— Geoffrey Chaucer

123. “Only the present moment contains life.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

124. “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 either spend or waste and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.”

— Bruce Lee

125. “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

126. “Procrastination is opportunity’s assassin.”

— Victor Kiam

127. “What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.”

— Ralph Marston

128. “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”

— John F. Kennedy

129. “Patience and time do more than strength or passion.”

— Jean de La Fontaine

130. “The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started.”

— Dawson Trotman

131. “Discard everything except these few truths: we can live only in the present moment, in this brief now; all the rest of our life is dead and buried or shrouded in uncertainty. Short is the life we lead, and small our patch of earth.”

— Marcus Aurelius

132. “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

133. “Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose.”

— Thomas A. Edison

134. “Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.”

— Cameron Crowe

135. “Time is a precious thing. Never waste it.”

— Gene Wilder

136. “There is only one time that is important – NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time that we have any power.”

— Leo Tolstoy

137. “Today will never happen again. Don’t waste it with a false start or no start at all.”

— Og Mandino

138. “Forever is composed of nows.”

— Emily Dickinson

139. “Move fast. A sense of urgency is the one thing you can develop that will separate you from everyone else. When you get a good idea, do it now.”

— Brian Tracy

140. “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”

— John Hughes

141. “The trouble is that you think you have time.”

— Jack Kornfield

142. “Now is all you ever have. There never is anything else. So, you might as well make the now your friend. Otherwise, you are out of alignment with life itself.”

— Eckhart Tolle

143. “Please, don’t worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting.”

— Robin Williams

144. “I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.”

— Paulo Coelho

145. “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.”

— Khalil Gibran

146. “While we are postponing, life speeds by.”

— Seneca the Younger

147. “Take action now, because tomorrow never comes.”

— Marshall Sylver

148. “I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

149. “Don’t waste your time; it is too short, valuable, and irreplaceable.”

— Mike Murdock

150. “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