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40 Quotes About Time: Wisdom to Live By

Time is life’s most precious resource you can’t buy it, you can’t stop it, and once it’s gone, it’s gone forever. It teaches us to value moments, be present, and use our hours wisely.


  1. “Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.” – William Penn
  2. “Lost time is never found again.” – Benjamin Franklin
  3. “The trouble is, you think you have time.” – Buddha
  4. “Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.” – Theophrastus
  5. “Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time,’ is like saying, ‘I don’t want to.’” – Lao Tzu

  1. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson
  2. “Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.” – William Shakespeare
  3. “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” – Michael Altshuler
  4. “Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
  5. “You may delay, but time will not.” – Benjamin Franklin

  1. “Time is the wisest counselor of all.” – Pericles
  2. “Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.” – Stephen King
  3. “Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.” – Rose Kennedy
  4. “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” – Marthe Troly-Curtin
  5. “Enjoy life. This is not a rehearsal.” – Unknown

  1. “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
  2. “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” – John F. Kennedy
  3. “Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.” – Thomas Hardy
  4. “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” – Andy Warhol
  5. “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” – Winston Churchill

  1. “Time is an illusion.” – Albert Einstein
  2. “Time is the longest distance between two places.” – Tennessee Williams
  3. “Time brings all things to pass.” – Aeschylus
  4. “Time stays long enough for those who use it.” – Leonardo da Vinci
  5. “Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.” – William Faulkner

  1. “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
  2. “Everything comes in time to those who can wait.” – François Rabelais
  3. “Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.” – Lucille S. Harper
  4. “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” – Lao Tzu
  5. “Patience and time do more than strength or passion.” – Jean de La Fontaine

  1. “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today.” – Mother Teresa
  2. “Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne
  3. “The future starts today, not tomorrow.” – Pope John Paul II
  4. “The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence.” – Roy T. Bennett
  5. “Time isn’t the main thing. It’s the only thing.” – Miles Davis

  1. “You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.” – Charles Buxton
  2. “It’s not about having time. It’s about making time.” – Unknown
  3. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
  4. “Time, the devourer of everything.” – Ovid
  5. “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” – Charles Darwin

Time is fleeting, but within each moment lies the opportunity to grow, change, and create. How you spend your time is how you spend your life.

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