100+ Time Quotes & Sayings

100+ Time Quotes & Sayings

127 Quotes

Time is the most valuable thing that a man can spend so we're sharing the most famous quotes about time from the best famous scientists, novelists, authors.

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

Cormac McCarthy

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.

Dave Eggers

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.

Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.

When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.

A.W. Tozer

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : 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.

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 W. Watts

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.

Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.

David Foster Wallace

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

Charles Buxton

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : You need to make time for your family no matter what happens in your life

You need to make time for your family no matter what happens in your life

Matthew Quick

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.

Jean de La Bruyère

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : 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.

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

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.

Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.

William Gibson

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite

They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite

Cassandra Clare

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.

Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.

Anthony Doerr

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : 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.

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

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : 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.

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

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

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

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

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

Mother Teresa

It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief.

Jacqueline Carey

Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone.

Jeanette Winterson

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Alan W. Watts

Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.

Alice Walker

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

The past is a ghost, the future a dream and all we ever have is now.

Bill Cosby

For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.

C.S. Lewis

the tired sunsets and the tired people - it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.

Charles Bukowski

Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy ready-made things in the shops. But since there are no shops where you can buy friends, men no longer have any friends.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.

Bill Watterson

As she’d left, I’d glanced at her gun.This time, when she’d pointed it at me, she’d flicked the safety on. If that wasn’t true love, I don’t know what was.

Brandon Sanderson

There is a time for work, and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Coco Chanel

Time spent with a cat is never wasted.

Colette

The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

Criss Jami

In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.[Dedication to Sagan's wife, Ann Druyan, in Cosmos]

Carl Sagan

Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your station.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Time is more precious than gold, more precious than diamonds, more precious than oil or any valuable treasures. It is time that we do not have enough of; it is time that causes the war within our hearts, and so we must spend it wisely.

Cecelia Ahern

There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.

Eugene O'Neill

My past is everything I failed to be.

Fernando Pessoa

The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.

Geoffrey Chaucer

"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo."So do I," said Gandalf, and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

J.R.R. Tolkien

By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.

Chuck Palahniuk

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