Time is an extraordinary concept. It is relentless, fleeting, and yet a constant presence in our lives. There is perhaps no other resource that is both as abundant and scarce as time. To truly understand the significance of time, it is often helpful to seek inspiration from the wisdom of others.
In this blog post, we explore some captivating time quotes that serve as reminders to value and utilize our most precious resource – time.
Life, if well lived, is long enough.
Seneca
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Leo Tolstoy
Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments. Rose Kennedy
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Every second is of infinite value.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. Marthe Troly-Curtin
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
William Penn, Fruits of Solitude
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.
Margaret Peters
The most precious resource we all have is time.
Steve Jobs
Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.
Art Buchwald
The future has a way of arriving unannounced. George F. Will
Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.
Margaret Peters
The present time has one advantage over every other – it is our own.
Charles Caleb Colton
The more you know yourself, the more you understand life, the more you value your time. Maxime Lagacé
Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time’ is to say ‘I don’t want to.
Lao Tzu
Enjoy yourself. It’s later than you think.
Chinese proverb
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Charles Buxto
How we spend our days, is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Annie Dillard
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin
Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. Napoleon Hill
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
Steve Jobs
People often complain about lack of time when lack of direction is the real problem.
Zig Ziglar
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
Thomas Paine
It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
Seneca
Time isn’t the main thing. It’s the only thing.
Miles Davis
Do we need more time? Or do we need to be more disciplined with the time we have?
Kerry Johnson
Waste no more time arguing about what a good person should be. Be one.
Marcus Aurelius
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson
We feast on time as time feasts on us.
Maria Popova
We should always allow some time to elapse, for time discloses the truth.
Seneca
The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.
Seneca
Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.
Tim Ferriss
We go back and forth between being time’s master and its victim.
James Gleick
The best use of time is stepping back to identify the best use of time.
Aaron Aalto
I recommend you take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves.
Unknown
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
William Penn
Time is a gift that most of us take for granted. Cheryl Richardson
Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time.
Rich Warren
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Lao Tzu
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Time is the devourer of everything.
Ovid
You can have it all. Just not all at once.
Oprah Winfrey
Never leave ’till tomorrow which you can do today.
Benjamin Franklin
You may delay, but time will not.
Benjamin Franklin
It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.
Vincent Van Gogh
Time is the ultimate currency.
Elon Musk
Lost time is never found again.
Benjamin Franklin
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.
Albert Einstein
The time is always right to do what is right.
Martin Luther King Jr
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
Chinese proverb
All great achievements require time.
Maya Angelou
Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.
Mahatma Gandhi
The years teach much which the days never know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
William Shakespeare
Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose.
Thomas A. Edison
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. Henry David Thoreau
We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
Nelson Mandela
We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.
John F. Kennedy
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them. Henry Ford
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Rabindranath Tagore
Time is money.
Benjamin Franklin
Time is the wisest counselor of all.
Pericles
I don’t have time is just saying it’s not a priority.
Naval Ravikant
If one has no time, one has also lost oneself.
Marc Wittmann
Forever is composed of now.
Emily Dickinson
Time is long but life is short.
Stevie Wonder
Time is the currency of life.
Shane Parrish
Time is a construction of our consciousness.
Maria Popova
To choose time, is to save time.
Francis Bacon
Time is not a measure, but a quality.
Paulo Coelho
Too often too late comes too soon.
Dr. SunWolf
Time brings all things to pass.
Aeschylus
Own time, or time will own you.
Brian Norgard
Only time can heal what reason cannot.
Seneca
Time itself comes in drops.
William James
Things change, and time is how we keep track. James Gleick
Time is the fire in which we burn.
Gene Roddenberry
Time is a drug; too much of it kills you.
Terry Pratchett
Whatever begins, also ends.
Seneca
In time and with water, everything changes. Leonardo da Vinci
The concept of time is both profound and enigmatic. These time quotes serve as gentle reminders to cherish and effectively utilize our most precious resource. They encourage us to take charge of our lives and make conscious choices. They inspire us to value every moment, for time is fleeting, and once it’s gone, it can never be reclaimed. So, let us seize the day, embrace the power of now, and make the most of our time- for it is the most valuable gift we have.
