Timeless Wisdom: Inspirational Quotes About Timing

"Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along."

- George Herbert

"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life."

- Steve Jobs

"Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time,’ is to say, ‘I don’t want to.’"

- Lao Tzu

"If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?"

- John Wooden

"Regret for wasted time is more wasted time."

- Mason Cooley

"The present time has one advantage over every other – it is our own."

- Charles Caleb Colton

"The future starts today, not tomorrow."

- Pope John Paul II

"Life is flying by. You don’t have time to waste another minute being negative, offended, or bitter."

- Joel Osteen

"Time = life; therefore, waste your time and waste your life, or master your time and master your life."

- Alan Lakein

"Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present."

- Bill Keane

"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

"Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend."

- Theophrastus

"If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done."

- Bruce Lee

"The best time to start was last year. Failing that, today will do."

- Chris Guillebeau

"The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: ‘I did not have time.’"

- Franklin Field

"Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."

- Sam Levenson

"Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand, and melting like a snowflake."

- Francis Bacon

"The key is in not spending time, but in investing it."

- Stephen R. Covey

"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

"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot."

- Michael Altshuler

"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life."

- Charles Darwin

"My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time."

- Steve Jobs

"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

"Every second is of infinite value."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose."

- Thomas Edison

"Time is the one thing that can never be retrieved."

- C.R. Lawton

"I always live in the present. The future I can’t know. The past I no longer have."

- Fernando Pessoa

"The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it."

- Earl Nightingale

"You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it."

- Charles Buxton

"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent."

- Carl Sandburg

"The way we spend our time defines who we are."

- Jonathan Estrin

"Time is money."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Better three hours too soon than a minute too late."

- William Shakespeare

"Lost time is never found again."

- Benjamin Franklin

"It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time."

- Charles F. Kettering

"If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of."

- Bruce Lee

"Time is what we want most, but what we use worst."

- William Penn

"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."

- Leo Tolstoy

"Change your 24 hours and you will change your life."

- Eric Thomas

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"‘Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you."

- Timothy Ferriss

"You may delay, but time will not."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday."

- Dale Carnegie

"This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive."

- Maurice Chevalier

"The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"There is more to life than simply increasing its speed."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Haste in every business brings failures."

- Herodotus

"Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time."

- Voltaire

"Make use of time, let not advantage slip."

- William Shakespeare

"Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something, then you have the time to do something about it."

- Anthony J. D'Angelo

"Time stays long enough for those who use it."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"It’s not that we have a little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it."

- Seneca

"Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends."

- William Shakespeare

"Four things come not back, the spoken word, the sped arrow, time past, and the neglected opportunity."

- Arabian Proverb

"Time is a gift that most of us take for granted."

- Cheryl Richardson

"The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it."

- Schopenhauer

"All our sweetest hours fly fastest."

- Virgil

"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."

- C.S. Lewis

"Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past even while we attempt to define it."

- Charles Caleb Colton

"Seize the day, then let it go."

- Marty Rubin

"Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream."

- Kahlil Gibran

"In life, when presented with any situation, breathe, take your time, focus and then decide what to do."

- Rickson Gracie

"Although we try to control it in a million different ways, the only things you can ever really do to time are enjoy it, or waste it. That's it."

- A.J. Compton

"One must work with time and not against it."

- Ursula K. Le Guin

"The shorter way to do many things is to only do one thing at a time."

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

"Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got."

- Art Buchwald

"You have got to own your days and live them, each one of them, every one of them, or else the years go by and none of them belong to you."

- Herb Gardner

"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."

- Andy Warhol

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

- Golda Meir

"The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one’s day and every night to examine the results obtained."

- Alexis Carrel

"Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments."

- Rose Kennedy

"Time waits for no one."

- Folklore

"I give you this to take with you: Nothing remains as it was. If you know this, you can begin again, with pure joy in the uprooting."

- Judith Minty

"Time is the wisest counselor of all."

- Pericles

"Delay always breeds danger, and to protract a great design is often to ruin it."

- Miguel de Cervantes

"You can’t make up for lost time. You can only do better in the future."

- Ashley Ormon

"It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?"

- Henry David Thoreau

"Take your time. There’s no rush to be good or renowned."

- Kathryn Budig

"Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives."

- John C. Maxwell

"The important thing is to take your time and not get stressed."

- Diane von Furstenberg

"We must use time as a tool, not as a couch."

- John F. Kennedy

"Time will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead."

- J.K. Rowling

"Time moves slowly, but passes quickly."

- Alice Walker

"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 Matthew Barrie

"The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."

- Niccolo Machiavelli

"Be like a postage stamp — stick to one thing until you get there."

- Josh Billings

"Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind."

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity."

- Jean de la Bruyere

"Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door."

- Coco Chanel

"If you’re really looking for something in particular, it helps to take your time."

- Billy Gibbons

"Punctuality is the thief of time."

- Oscar Wilde

"It’s not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it."

- Seneca

"Time slips away like grains of sand never to return again."

- Robin Sharma

"Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any."

- Thomas Jefferson

"No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away."

- Haruki Murakami

"Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments."

- Rose Kennedy

"The time I kill is killing me."

- Mason Cooley

"The past always looks better than it was. It’s only pleasant because it isn’t here."

- Finley Peter Dunne

"Time is the longest distance between two places."

- Tennessee Williams

"By faithfully working eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day."

- Robert Frost

"How did it get so late so soon? It’s night before it’s afternoon. December is here before it’s June. My goodness how the time has flewn."

- Dr. Seuss

"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana."

- Anthony G. Oettinger

"Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat."

- Jean-Paul Sartre

"Time is an illusion."

- Albert Einstein

"It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary."

- Veronica Roth

"You can have it all. Just not all at once."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Time does not pass, it continues."

- Marty Rubin

"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

"There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want."

- Bill Watterson

"Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."

"Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it."

- Anonymous

"Timing is everything. It can mean the difference between success and failure."

"Don't force things. Let them unfold naturally in perfect timing."

"The key to success is knowing when to act and when to wait for the perfect moment."

"Timing is everything in relationships, careers, and life in general."

"Change happens when the timing is right for it to occur."

"There is a time for everything, trust that your time will come."

"The right opportunities will come when the timing is perfect."

"Don't rush the process. Trust that everything will happen in perfect timing."

"Timing is a crucial factor in achieving success and happiness."

"Sometimes we have to be patient and wait for the perfect moment to take action."

"Success comes to those who are patient and trust in the timing of their lives."

"Life has a way of bringing us what we need in perfect timing."

"The key to success is knowing when to seize opportunities at the perfect moment."

"Timing is everything, learn to recognize when the time is right to act."

"Everything happens in perfect timing, trust in the process."

"The universe has a way of aligning things at just the right moment, trust in the timing of your life."

"Timing can make or break a situation, choose wisely."

"Don't rush things. Trust that everything will fall into place at the perfect time."

"Everything happens for a reason, and is often revealed in perfect timing."

"Patience is key when waiting for the right moment to act."

"Sometimes the universe has a way of aligning things in perfect timing."

"Great things take time. Be patient and trust in the process."

"Timing is a crucial element in the art of achieving success."

"Sometimes the hardest part is waiting for the right moment to make a move."

"Life has a way of unfolding in perfect timing, trust in the process."

"The right opportunities will present themselves at the perfect time."