130 Time Quotes to Teach You the Value of Time

Time… everyone feels that if they could have more than 24 hours in a day. Often we feel that as if there is never enough time. But, if we analyze our day to day routine, we will find that occasionally we waste our time or spend it on non value adding activities of life. Every single moment of life is precious. Allow these Best Time Quotes of all time to serve as a little reminder that we should appreciate the value of time.

1. “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” ~ Michael Altshuler

2. “Time is a Non Renewable Resource. Once it is gone, it is gone. You will never see this moment again.” ~ Invajy

3. “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” ~ Napoleon Hill

4. “The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.” ~ Stephen R. Covey

5. “Everyone has their own time clock in their life. Trust the timings of your life.” ~ Invajy

6. “You can’t see the time, but it makes you see many things in life.” ~ Invajy
7. “Time is a created thing. To say “I don’t have time” is to say “I don’t want to.” “ ~ Lao Tzu
8. “Enjoy yourself. It’s later than you think.” ~ Chinese Proverb
9. “It  may take some time, but your time will come.” ~ Invajy
10. “Lost time is never found again.” ~ Benjamin Franklin

Quotes on Time

11. “In Disneyland, clocks and watches will lose all meaning, for there is no present. There is only yesterday, tomorrow, and the timeless land of fantasy.” ~ Walt Disney
12. “I am not particularly interested in saving time; I prefer to enjoy it.” ~ Eduardo Galeano
13. “You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.” ~ Charles Brixton
14. “If time travel is possible, where are the tourist from the future?” ~ Stephen Hawking
15. “For the present is the point at which time touches eternity.” ~ C.S. Lewis
16. “Ordinary people think merely of spending time, great people think of using it.” ~ Arthur Schopenhaue
17. “If you are too busy to enjoy quality time with your family, then you need to re-evaluate your priorities.” ~ Dave Willis
18. “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
19. “Never leave ’till tomorrow which you can do today.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
20. “Time is the wisest of all things that are, for it brings everything to light.” ~ Thales

Time Quotes

21. “We should always allow some time to elapse, for time discloses the truth.” ~ Seneca
22. “The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.” ~  Albert Einstein
23. “Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.” ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
24. “Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.” ~ Ray Cummings
25. “I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.” ~ Thomas Edison
26. “People often complain about lack of time when lack of direction is the real problem. ” ~ Zig Ziglar
27. “It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time. ” ~ Steve Jobs
28. “Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.” ~ Alice Walker
29. “As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
30. “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” ~ Mother Teresa

Wasting Time Quotes

31. “Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.” ~ Roy T. Bennett
32. “Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.” ~ Dion Boucicault
33. “Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.” ~ Rodin
34. “Waste no more time arguing about what a good person should be. Be one.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
35. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” ~ Steve Jobs

36. “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” ~ Charles Darwin
37. “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” ~ Chinese Proverb
38. “It’s not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it. ” ~ Seneca
39. “If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” ~ Bruce Lee
40. “It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Times Quotes

41. “You can’t turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.” ~ Bonnie Prudden
42. “We all make time for what we feel is important in our lives.” ~ Anonymous
43. “I refuse to entertain negativity. Life is too big and time is too short to get caught up in empty drama.” ~ Anonymous
44. “Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.” ~ Margaret Peters
45. “We feast on time as time feasts on us.” ~ Maria Popova
46. “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.” ~ Bruce Lee
47. “I can use my time much better working on tomorrow’s problem than by fretting about yesterday’s.” ~ Admiral King
48. “Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.” ~ Lucille S. Harper
49. “Happiness is the ability to lose yourself in something to the point that you don’t notice the passage of time.” ~ Nicole Fisher
50. “For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness.” ~ Anonymous

Value of Time Quotes

51. “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
52. “Time isn’t the main thing. It’s the only thing.” ~ Miles Davis
53. “Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination; Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.” ~ Lord Chesterfield
54. “The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.” ~ W. Somerset Maugham
55. “Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.” ~ Theophrastus
56. “Cherish time. Your most valuable resource. You can never make up the time you lose. The most important choices you’ll ever make are how you use your time.” ~ David Kekich
57. “Every second is of infinite value.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
58. “Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.” ~ Jim Rohn
59. “Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time.” ~ Rich Warren
60. “Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back.” ~ Harvey Mackay

Quotes about Time

61. “Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.” ~ Rose Kennedy
62. “The years teach much the days never know.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
63. “How we spend our days, is, of course, how we spend our lives.” ~ Annie Dillard
64. “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” ~ Leo Tolstoy
65. “I recommend you take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves.” ~ Earl of Chesterfield
66. “Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.” ~ Peter Drucker
67. “Life, if well lived, is long enough.” ~ Seneca
68. “Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff that life is made of. ” ~ Benjamin Franklin
69. “The future has a way of arriving unannounced.” ~ George F. Will
70. “Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.” ~ Robert Frost

Best Time Quotes

71. “The way we spend our time defines who we are.” ~ Jonathan Estrin
72. “Time slips away like grains of sand never to return again.” ~ Robin Sharma
73. “We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.” ~ Nelson Mandela
74. “Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.” ~ Tim Ferriss
75. “An inch of time is an inch of gold but you can’t buy that inch of time with an inch of gold.” ~ Chinese Proverb
76. “Time is a gift that most of us take for granted. We get so caught up in the busyness of our daily lives that we rarely stop and take a serious look at how we’re spending this gift.” ~ Cheryl Richardson
77. “No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.” ~ George Eliot
78. “Time is the one thing we all have in common, but it is also the one thing that we all use differently.” ~ Catherine Pulsifer
79. “How can we resent the life we’ve created for ourselves? Who’s to blame, who’s to credit, but us? Who can change it, any time we wish, but us? “ ~ Richard Bach
80. “Better three hours too soon than one minute too late.” ~ William Shakespeare

Time Quotes

81. “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
82. “The key is to have a balanced life. Set aside a fraction of your time to carry out your dreams and ambitions.” ~ Michael Lee
83. “There is no time like the present to start making changes, but I have found that the best time is to start by going about your day differently as soon as you wake up.” ~ Kevin Kerr
84. “Time is a precious commodity. If you have not been enlightened to this actuality in your youth, you most certainly will in old age.” ~ Adam Jacobs
85. “We need to determine what activities best utilize our time in order to achieve the results we desire in all areas of our life! “ ~ Catherine Pulsifer
86. “Everything takes time. Everything that hurts passes with time where each person heals on their own schedule.” ~ Byron Pulsifer
87. “If you are a grandfather, give your grandchildren what they long for most – your time.” ~ Carolyn Booth
88. “Time can’t be bought in a store, and it’s one of the most sought-after commodities of modern life.” ~ Rachel Jonat
89. “Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.” ~ Carl Sandburg
90. “Relentlessly prune bullshit, don’t wait to do things that matter, and savor the time you have. That’s what you do when life is short.” ~ Paul Graham

Inspiring Time Quotes

91. “It’s easy to make it through the good times; it’s how we handle the bad times that can separates us from the crowd and move us closer to our goals.” ~ Phillip Crone
92. “Both nature and time have a unique way to rejuvenate and heal us if we allow space in our lives for this to happen.” ~ Catherine DeVrye
93. “Time is the longest distance between two places.” ~ Tennessee Williams
94. “Time is an equal opportunity employer, but how we treat time is not equal.” ~ John C. Maxwell
95. “Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.” ~ Andrew Jackson
96. “The difference between those who are high achievers and those who aren’t is in the ways they utilize their time to get things done.” ~ Eric Lofholm
97. “Time is a precious commodity. I refuse to allow what little time I have to be contaminated by self-pity, anxiety, or boredom.” ~ Max Lucado
98. “Time, consoler of affliction and softener of anger.” ~ Charles Dickens
99. “Every minute of your time is either spent helping or hurting your chance for the victory you are seeking in your life. Each minute can be an investment.” ~ Lisa Kardos
100. “The thing about Time is that its so abundant for everybody, everyone has exactly twenty four hours in a day to prove ourselves, to achieve all we have for that day.” ~ James Clear

Famous Time Quotes

101. “Time cannot be packaged and ribboned and left under trees for Christmas morning. Time can’t be given. But it can be shared.” ~ Cecelia Ahern
102. “If we make a careful study of the lives of the world’s great men and women, we shall find that their distinction was achieved by making the most of their spare minutes.” ~ Nixon Waterman
103. “Just because things are taking time, it doesn’t mean that they won’t happen.” ~ AJ Winters
104. “Time is the wisest counselor of all.” ~ Pericles
105. “No time? Switch off the TV. Television is our biggest enemy.” ~ Josie Cluney
106. “There’s never enough time to do it right, but there’s always enough time to do it over.” ~ Jack Bergman
107. “The present time has one advantage over every other – it is our own.” ~ Charles Caleb Colton
108. “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” ~ Andy Warhol
109. “There’s only one thing more precious than our time and that’s who we spend it on.” ~ Leo Christopher
110. “The trouble is, you think you have time.” ~ Buddha

Time Quotes and Sayings

111. “Someday” is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.” ~ Timothy Ferriss
112. “The greatest gift you can give someone is your time because when you give your time, you are giving a portion of your life that you will never get back.” ~ Anonymous
113. “Don’t spend a dollar’s worth of time on a ten-cent decision. ” ~ Peter Turla
114. “Time is what we want most, but what we use worst. ” ~ William Penn
115. “Time waits for no one.” ~ Folklore
116. “We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.” ~ John F. Kennedy
117. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” ~ Robert H. Schuller
118. “The past always looks better than it was. It’s only pleasant because it isn’t here.” ~ Finley Peter Dunne
119. “The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
120. “Time will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead.” ~ Harry Potter

Time Quotes

121. “Do we need more time? Or do we need to be more disciplined with the time we have? “ ~ Kerry Johnson
122. “The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.” ~ C.S. Lewis
123. “Time expands, then contracts, and in tune with the stirrings of the heart.” ~ Haruki Murakami
124. “Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.” ~ Art Buchwald
125. “Your success will be in direct proportion to how you spend your ‘free’ time.” ~ Mike Dunlap
126. “You may delay, but time will not.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
127. “Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.” ~ Dale Carnegie
128. “This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
129. “Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.” ~ Coco Chanel
130. “One must work with time and not against it.“ ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

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