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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 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 : 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

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

 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

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

 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

 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

Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it.

Erich Fromm

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Horace Mann

The strangeness of Time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you can't see, whose beginning you've forgotten, but in the sudden realization that something finite, has passed, and is irretrievable.

Joyce Carol Oates

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

Andy Warhol

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

Time is the most valuable thing that a man can spend.

Diogenes Laërtius

I confess I do not believe in time. I like to fold my magic carpet, after use, in such a way as to superimpose one part of the pattern upon another. Let visitors trip. And the highest enjoyment of timelessness

Vladimir Nabokov

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

Chuck Palahniuk

Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.

Khaled Hosseini

Time present and time pastAre both perhaps present in time futureAnd time future contained in time past.

T.S. Eliot

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

Jim Morrison

Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.

Miranda July

I give you this to take with you:Nothing remains as it was. If you know this, you canbegin again, with pure joy in the uprooting.

Judith Minty

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 flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.

Haruki Murakami

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

Jean Genet

It’s how I fill the time when nothing’s happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy.

Tim Winton

You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.

Kim Edwards

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

Charles Bukowski

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

William Shakespeare

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

Haruki Murakami

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