Top 200 Time Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Come what come may, time and the hour run through the roughest day.”

— William Shakespeare

152. “Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled.”

— Edward Young

153. “The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.”

— Dan Millman

154. “The reason you’ll never be successful is that you procrastinate.”

— Eric Thomas

155. “There is no time like the present...”

— Georgia Byng

156. “Yesterday is but a dream, Tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope.”

— Kālidāsa

157. “The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”

— C. S. Lewis

158. “Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.”

— Dallas Willard

159. “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 may be done, if we are always doing.”

— Thomas Jefferson

160. “The days are long, but the years are short.”

— Gretchen Rubin

161. “Don’t start the day until you have it finished. Don’t start the week until you have it finished. Don’t start the month until you have it finished. Plan your day.”

— Jim Rohn

162. “The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

163. “Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.”

— John Wayne

164. “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”

— Marthe Troly-Curtin

165. “If you don’t do it this year, you’ll just be one year older when you do.”

— Warren Miller

166. “Luxury, to me, is not owning a lot of stuff. Luxury, to me, is feeling unrushed.”

— Tim Ferriss

167. “It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.”

— Hugh Laurie

168. “Past and future are in the mind only – I am now.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

169. “We have only today. Let us begin.”

— Mother Teresa

170. “Time perfects men as well as destroys them.”

— Chanakya

171. “Things take the time they take. Don’t worry.”

— Mary Oliver

172. “Only the present moment contains life.”

— Nhat Hanh

173. “Excitement must lead to immediate action or you will lose the power of momentum. More dreams die because we fail to seize the moment. Do it now!”

— Tony Robbins

174. “Only time – whatever that may be – will tell.”

— Stephen Hawking

175. “The most precious gift you can give someone is the gift of your time and attention.”

— Nicky Gumbel

176. “Today is the most important day of our lives.”

— Nhat Hanh

177. “I live one day at a time, one day at a time. Yesterday’s gone and tomorrow is blind, so I live one day at a time.”

— Willie Nelson

178. “Early is on time and on time is late.”

— Bo Schembechler

179. “Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it and spend it rather than invest it.”

— Jim Rohn

180. “Nothing endures but change. There is nothing permanent except change. All is flux, nothing stays still.”

— Heraclitus

181. “Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.”

— Theophrastus

182. “You have all the time in the world, but don’t waste a moment.”

— Ram Dass

183. “Remember, there is no perfect time for anything. There is only now.”

— Jack Canfield

184. “The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.”

— Omar Khayyam

185. “Time heals almost everything. Give time time.”

— Regina Brett

186. “Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.”

— Paulo Coelho

187. “Any successful entrepreneur knows that time is more valuable than money itself.”

— Richard Branson

188. “Time is the most valuable asset you don’t own. You may or may not realize it yet, but how you use or don’t use your time is going to be the best indication of where your future is going to take you .”

— Mark Cuban

189. “Don’t waste your time or time will waste you.”

— Muse

190. “Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of.”

— Benjamin Franklin

191. “Don’t count the days, make the days count.”

— Muhammad Ali

192. “This is your life and the clock is ticking.”

— Phillip C. McGraw

193. “The perfect time to start something never arrives. Start now!”

— T. Harv Eker

194. “Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy.”

— John C. Bogle

195. “If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.”

— Lao Tzu

196. “Were you to live three thousand years, or even thirty thousand, remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment; and furthermore, that he can have no other life except the one he loses...”

— Marcus Aurelius

197. “The early bird catches the worm.”

— William Camden

198. “Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.”

— John C. Maxwell

199. “Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end.”

— Keren Ann

200. “Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.