Here are 66 best time quotes organized by topics:
Be on time
Better three hours too soon, than one minute too late.
William Shakespeare
Time is the best teacher
Time is the wisest counselor of all.
Pericles
Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.
Delmore Schwartz
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Rodin
Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.
Aeschylus
Histories make men wise.
Francis Bacon
Use your time wisely
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
William Penn
The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.
Shoppenhauer
Time = life; therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.
Alan Lakein
Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week’s value out of a year while another man gets a full year’s value out of a week.
Charles Richards
The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.
Stephen R. Covey
Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.
Author Unknown
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much can be done if we are always doing.
Thomas Jefferson
Make use of time, let not advantage slip.
William Shakespeare
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year – and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!
Anthony Robbins
Check your priorities
If you want to make good use of your time, you’ve got to know what’s most important and then give it all you’ve got.
Lee Iacocca
It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?
Henry David Thoreau
Small things matter
Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves.
Lord Chesterfield
You’re writing the story of your life one moment at a time.
Doc Childre and Howard Martin
Do only a few things
To do two things at once is to do neither.
Publius Syrus
One cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the water, one pops up while you try to hold down the other.
Chinese Proverb
Focus on the present
Never let yesterday use up today.
Richard H. Nelson
I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
W. Somerset Maugham
It’s how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.
Marcia Wieder
Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment. That is what’s real.
Sara Paddison
The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something.
Carl Sandburg
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.
Art Buchwald
This is the beginning of a new day.
God has given me this day to use as I will.
I can waste it or use it for good.
What I do today is important, because
I am exchanging a day of my life for it.
When tomorrow comes,
this day will be gone forever,
leaving in its place something
that I have traded for it.
I want it to be gain, not loss;
good not evil; success not failure;
in order that I shall not regret
the price I paid for it.
Author Unknown
Lost time gone forever
He lives long that lives well; and time misspent is not lived but lost.
Thomas Fuller
He who know most grieves most for wasted time.
Dante
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
Samuel Smiles
Money, I can only gain or lose. But time I can only lose. So, I must spend it carefully.
Author Unknown
One thing you can’t recycle is wasted time.
Author Unknown
Lost time is never found again.
Proverb
The importance of time
All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.
Baltasar Gracian
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Theophrastus
Time is money.
Benjamin Franklin
Gaining time is gaining everything in love, trade and war.
John Shebbeare
Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
M. Scott Peck
Your greatest resource is your time.
Brian Tracy
You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.
Henry David Thoreau
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Laertius Diogenes
Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.
John Randolph
Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose.
Thomas Edison
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
Peter F. Drucker
Don’t procrastinate
What may be done at any time will be done at no time.
Scottish Proverb
A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
Baltasar Gracian
One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is worth half-a-hundred half-finished tasks.
Malcolm S. Forbes
To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.
Eva Young
A year from now you will wish you had started today.
Karen Lamb
The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time.
Leo Kennedy
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
Seneca
You may delay, but time will not.
Benjamin Franklin
Never leave ’till tomorrow which you can do today.
Benjamin Franklin
Don’t excuse, you are in control
You will never “find” time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.
Charles Bruxton
Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
H. Jackson Brown
The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.
Michael Altshuler
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
I am definitely going to take a course on time management… just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.
Louis E. Boone
In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.
Sir John Lubbock
Those who make the worse use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
Jean De La Bruyere
The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: “I did not have time.”
Franklin Field
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“Take care never to be idle”
That one says it all. If I can ever master that I’ll be able to do anything.
Frankly, that’s something I lack of. I still spend too much time thinking and too little time doing.
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hi Donald,
Thanks for reminding me of how to use time wisely and effectively.
It is really the best asset all of us have and we do not use it wisely.
I got a new perspective. How about getting more time?
HOW?
By Leverage. Outsource to others some tasks to free up your time.
Read the attraction accelerator report at http://www.visualizationexercise.com/theend.html
Outsourcing is a very interesting idea, Cheng. I’d love to learn more about it.
And thanks for the link you give! I’ve downloaded the report and it looks very interesting with topics such as the science of getting rich and law attraction. I’m gonna read it soon.
Nice List. You should first decide on who you are and where you want to go in life. Only then can you judge how well you manage your time
@Easy Going:
I completely agree. The way we use our time can only be seen in the light of our life purpose.
I learn too much and do too little.
Guess its not too late to start now
Of course not. There is not “too late”. I’m sure the best time to start is always “now”.
i just had to come on here for a school project and I relized how bad i’ve been wasting time… thank you
Morgan,
You’re welcome. Wasting time is not just your problem of course. Many people (including me 🙂 ) have the same problem.
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i hav been searching 4 d best quotes n i found it here w/o even wasting ma tme
Thanks for the quotes. I’ve used them to encourage others.
Time is precious. The only thing is that only a few can realize the fact
if we care for time in present, the coming time will care for us.
Sabahat,
Well said. I like it 🙂
Exllant thoought about TIME
thanks! it helped out my language project!
Foss
“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.” – William Penn
wasting of time will make you waste
so…..take care of our time!! till we still have time…..n never running out of time
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I’m motivated by by your quotes! I am looking forward to receiving more.
willingness is weakness
A few moments of past is well remebered whereas other moments are not
Time Is Life,It passes minute to minute
awesome quotes..it was indeed very useful…thanking you…stella
THIS IS THE TRUE ESSENCE OF OUR LIVING, WE CANNOT AFFORD TO WASTE. Thank you,looking forward to receiving more quotes from you.
love your quotes that you posted here hope you dont mind i tweeted some of them.
time is not but a wall by which life is supported
Time is our golden gift
Those who will not respect TIME, they will not respect God also.
Time, like a field, every season to bear harvest must be cultivated with diligence and care or it will remain baron and unfulfilled.
thanks for reminding me the importance of time……..really it is great.
Time and Tide wait for no body..
Time =Life
I have the same amount of hours that Helen Keller and Da Vinci had…sheesh!
I’d better get crackin’!
Thanks for these great quotes, Donald.
I am always looking for relevant material to share with the teachers I coach through my blog.
Theses quotes will be “timely” for my teachers today!
As TIME goes by… the unseen things will be seen and what was shown to your eyes possibly just to gave the impression as if (Tikno).
God treasured time and that is why he does things in their appropriate timing.
This are the good proverbs that which we can overcome from all over the bad attitude & we can be good by following this:-):-):-)
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Love it.
cleanliness is next to god,but after reading these quotes i would like to replace “cleanliness” with “timeliness”
such a nice 1 it is.
so true ……..
Awesome. Good job
Powerful quotes that brings true healing to your life.
it is such a nice thought.
Indeed powerful with valuable quotes are given .These are truly important and thoughtful for us. Thank so much for you beautiful share.
Value of time knows very well, who’s life is minutes in this world
these r much valuable quotes AWESOME………………
My time reading the quotes was well spent, thank you, really deep stuff.
Thank you for sharing amazing quotes…..this is exactly the boost i was looking for….
I found what iam looking for,here!Superb
Awesome Quotes… Just reading is not Enough
People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.
””Zig Ziglar
Stop wasting your time, and start doing something with the time you have.
its nice to have that inspiring quotes it can help to encourage people to have a better future..
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You have shared some amazing time management quotes by some great people in this article. This shows that great people place a lot of emphasis on time management and in order to become great we must learn to effectively manage our time. Thank you.