Time Quotes

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. 
Roger Babson 

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. 
Abraham Lincoln 

Lost time is never found again. 
Benjamin Franklin 

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 

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? 
John Wooden 

Time is money. 
Benjamin Franklin 

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. 
Nelson Mandela 

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 

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough. 
George Bernard Shaw 

You may delay, but time will not. 
Benjamin Franklin 

The time I kill is killing me. 
Mason Cooley 

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change. 
Thomas Hardy 

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. 
Henry David Thoreau 

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. 
Golda Meir 

Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life. 
Michael LeBoeuf 

It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth. 
Francois Rabelais 

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. 
C. S. Lewis 

You can never plan the future by the past. 
Edmund Burke 

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone. 
William Shakespeare 

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. 
Ambrose Bierce


Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important. 
Mariel Hemingway 

Know how to live the time that is given you. 
Dario Fo 

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst. 
William Penn 

For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work. 
Doug Larson 

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. 
Dion Boucicault 

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know. 
Saint Augustine

But time growing old teaches all things. 
Aeschylus 

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration. 
Khalil Gibran 

Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well. 
Jonathan Carroll 

Time brings all things to pass. 
Aeschylus 

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away. 
Charles Caleb Colton 

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life. 
Alan Lakein 

By the time we've made it, we've had it. 
Malcolm Forbes 

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine. 
Friedrich Schiller 

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 

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own. 
H. G. Wells 

Time moves in one direction, memory in another. 
William Gibson 

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by. 
James M. Barrie 

And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total? 
Tillie Olsen 

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth. 
Thomas Huxley


I took some time out for life. 
James L. Brooks 

Time is the longest distance between two places. 
Tennessee Williams 

Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go. 
Henry Austin Dobson 

So during those first moments of the day, which are yours and yours alone, you can circumvent these boundaries and concentrate fully on spiritual matters. And this gives you the opportunity to plan the time management of the entire day. 
Menachem Mendel Schneerson 

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. 
Paul Valery 

Time is the wisest counselor of all. 
Pericles 

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities. 
Daniel J. Boorstin 

Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short. 
Adam Hochschild 

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use. 
Thomas J. Watson 

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn. 
Delmore Schwartz 

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked. 
Tillie Olsen 

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression. 
Mark Helprin 

Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent. 
Yevgeny Yevtushenko 

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us. 
Max Frisch 

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness. 
John Wanamaker 

When in doubt, take more time. 
John Zimmerman 

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind. 
Giordano Bruno 

The present is a point just passed. 
David Russell 

There's time enough, but none to spare. 
Charles W. Chesnutt 

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. 
Faith Baldwin


My time is now. 
John Turner