Timeless Inspiration: A Curated Collection of Inspirational Quotes About Time

"Lost time is never found again."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Theophrastus

"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."

- Steve Jobs

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

- John F. Kennedy

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

- Bill Keane

"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use."

- Earl Nightingale

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

- Alan Lakein

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

- Bruce Lee

"The most precious resource we all have is time."

- Steve Jobs

"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."

- Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

"Don't wait. The time will never be just right."

- Napoleon Hill

"At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent."

- Barbara Bush

"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 Jr.

"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

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

- John Wooden

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

- Charles Darwin

"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

"Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else."

- Peter Drucker

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

- Stephen R. Covey

"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

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

- Steve Jobs

"Procrastination is the thief of time."

- Edward Young

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

- Alan Lakein

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

- Thomas Edison

"You may delay, but time will not."

- Benjamin Franklin

"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

"Every second is of infinite value."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"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

"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

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

- Coco Chanel

"For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again."

- Eric Roth

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Bruce Lee

"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

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

- Sam Levenson

"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. How did it get so late so soon?"

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Ashley Ormon

"There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time."

- Napoléon I

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

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"How did it get so late so soon?"

- Dr. Seuss

"Top 15 Things Money Can’t Buy Time. Happiness. Inner Peace. Integrity. Love. Character. Manners. Health. Respect. Morals. Trust. Patience. Class. Common sense. Dignity."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.'"

- Lao Tzu

"Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy."

- Roy T. Bennett

"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

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

- Lao Tzu

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

- William Penn

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- John Wooden

"If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves."

- Maria Edgeworth

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

- John F. Kennedy

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

- Andy Warhol

"At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent."

- Barbara Bush

"Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go."

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- J.R.R. Tolkien

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

- Eric Thomas

"Either you run the day, or the day runs you."

- Jim Rohn

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

- Bruce Lee

"There’s only one thing more precious than our time and that’s who we spend it on."

- Leo Christopher

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

- Seneca

"Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have."

- John C. Maxwell

"People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy."

- Seneca

"Don’t make the same decision twice. Spend time and thought to make a solid decision the first time so that you don’t revisit the issue unnecessarily."

- Bill Gates

"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

"Rearranging your day around when you have the most energy is one simple way to work smarter instead of just harder."

- Chris Bailey

"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

"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

"A plan is what, a schedule is when. It takes both a plan and a schedule to get things done."

- Peter Turla

"He who every morning plans the transactions of that day and follows that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life."

- Victor Hugo

"Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery, and self-control more than anything else."

- Brian Tracy

"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

"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

"Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves."

- Lord Chesterfield

"The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can’t save time. You can only spend it. But you can spend it wisely or foolishly."

- Benjamin Hoff

"As we speak, cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in the morrow."

- Horace

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

- Golda Meir

"Starting every year, before I booked anything, or agreed to any meetings or conferences, we’d sit down with my assistant and we looked at our lives first. We planned that out first, and then what was left would be left for work."

- Michelle Obama

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

- Charles Buxton

"Begin with the end in mind."

- Stephen Covey

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."

- Abraham Lincoln

"A goal without a plan is just a wish."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now."

- Alan Lakein

"Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four-hour days."

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Chris Guillebeau

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

- Jonathan Estrin

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

- Bill Keane

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

- Jean de la Bruyere

"The time I kill is killing me."

- Mason Cooley

"You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Robin Sharma

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- William Penn

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use."

- Earl Nightingale

"You’ve got to know what you want. This is central to acting on your intentions. When you know what you want, you realize that all there is left then is time management. You’ll manage your time to achieve your goals because you clearly know what you’re trying to achieve in your life."

- Patch Adams

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

- William Shakespeare

"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

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

- Charles F. Kettering

"Life is flying by. You don’t have time to waste another minute being negative, offended, or bitter. If someone did you wrong, get over it and move forward."

- Joel Osteen

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

- Leonardo da Vinci

"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

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

- Charles Darwin

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

- Seneca

"Time is the one thing that can never be retrieved. One may lose and regain a friend; one may lose and regain money; opportunity once spurned may come again; but the hours that are lost in idleness can never be brought back to be used in gainful pursuits."

- C.R. Lawton

"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

"Dare to be wise; begin! He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses."

- Horace

"Lost - yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever."

- Horace Mann

"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

"Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The most important thing in life is knowing the most important things in life."

- David F. Jakielo

"We don’t drift in good directions. We discipline and prioritize ourselves there."

- Andy Stanley

"You gotta make it a priority to make your priorities a priority."

- Richie Norton

"‘I don’t have time’ is just saying it’s not a priority."

- Naval Ravikant

"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday and avoiding today."

- Wayne Dyer

"Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today."

- Benjamin Franklin

"He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life."

- Victor Hugo

"We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them."

- Seneca

"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."

- Bertrand Russell

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

- C. S. Lewis

"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

"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Ordinary people think merely of spending time; great people think of using it."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of."

- Benjamin Franklin

"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it."

- Seneca

"One today is worth two tomorrows."

- Benjamin Franklin

"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

"One always has time enough, if one will apply it well."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Prioritize your time so that it reflects your values."

- Thomas Jefferson

"You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again."

- Bonnie Prudden

"If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Time isn't the main thing. It's the only thing."

- Miles Davis

"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus."

- Alexander Graham Bell

"Time is the most valuable thing we have, and the one we tend to waste the most."

- Seneca

"Time is a created thing. To live in the past is as stubborn as living in the future."

- Dale Carnegie

"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

"Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it."

- Leonardo da Vinci

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

- William Shakespeare

"All great achievements require time."

- Maya Angelou

"It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The irony of multitasking is that it’s exhausting: when you’re doing two or three things simultaneously, you use more energy than the sum of energy required to do each task independently. You’re also cheating yourself because you’re not doing anything excellently."

- Twyla Tharp

"To do two things at once is to do neither."

- Publius Syrus

"Multitasking is like constantly pulling up a plant. This kind of constant shifting of your attention means that new ideas and concepts have no chance to take root and flourish."

- Barbara Oakley

"Multitasking divides your attention and leads to confusion and weakened focus."

- Deepak Chopra

"You can do two things at once, but you can’t focus effectively on two things at once."

- Gary Keller

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

- Josh Billings

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

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

"Multitasking, when it comes to paying attention, is a myth."

- John Medina

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

- Miguel de Cervantes

"Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task."

- William James

"Multitasking is overrated — I’d rather do one thing well than many things badly. Quality supersedes quantity every time."

- Stewart Stafford

"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

"A wise person does at once what a fool does at last."

- Baltasar Gracian

"Forever is composed of nows."

- Emily Dickinson

"Time and tide wait for no man."

- Geoffrey Chaucer

"There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over."

- Jack Bergman

"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages."

- William Shakespeare

"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once."

- Albert Einstein

"Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short."

- Adam Hochschild

"It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting."

- Elizabeth Taylor

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

- Diane von Furstenberg

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

- Timothy Ferriss

"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space."

- Johnny Cash

"Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Your success will be in direct proportion to how you spend your ‘free’ time."

- Mike Dunlap

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

- Dale Carnegie

"If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved."

- Maurice Chevalier

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

- Franklin Field

"When I’m doing a movie, I’m not doing anything else. It’s all about the movie. I don’t have a wife. I don’t have a kid. Nothing can get in my way… I’ve made a choice, so far, to go on this road alone. Because this is my time. This is my time to make movies."

- Quentin Tarantino

"If you trust in yourself… and believe in your dreams… and follow your star… you’ll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren’t so lazy."

- Terry Pratchett

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will bring few regrets and life will become a beautiful success."

- Louisa May Alcott

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

- Rose Kennedy

"No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as downtime. All you got is a lifetime. Go."

- Henry Rollins

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

- Fernando Pessoa

"Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life."

- Robin Sharma

"Stop and take your time to notice things and make those things you notice matter."

- Cecelia Ahern

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"Free time was the most precious time when you should be doing what you loved, or at least slowing down enough to remember what made your life worthwhile and happy."

- Amy Tan

"One can only forget about time by making use of it."

- Charles Baudelaire

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

- Ursula K. Le Guin

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Kathryn Budig

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

- Voltaire

"Regret for wasted time is more wasted time."

- Mason Cooley

"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 two most powerful warriors are patience and time."

- Leo Tolstoy

"Time is the wisest counselor of all."

- Pericles

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

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death."

- Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

"Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings."

- John Updike

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

- Schopenhauer

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

- Thomas Hardy

"Time is an illusion."

- Albert Einstein

"We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they’re called memories. Some take us forward, they’re called dreams."

- Jeremy Irons

"It’s a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up."

- J.K. Rowling

"It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone."

- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

"They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite"

- Cassandra Clare

"I sit beside the fire and think Of all that I have seen Of meadow flowers and butterflies In summers that have been Of yellow leaves and gossamer In autumns that there were With morning mist and silver sun And wind upon my hair I sit beside the fire and think Of how the world will be When winter comes without a spring That I shall ever see For still there are so many things That I have never seen In every wood in every spring There is a different green I sit beside the fire and think Of people long ago And people that will see a world That I shall never know But all the while I sit and think Of times there were before I listen for returning feet And voices at the door"

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change."

- Taylor Swift

"Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting."

- Haruki Murakami

"Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear."

- Paulo Coelho

"It’s not about the paycheck, it’s about respect, it’s about looking in the mirror and knowing that you’ve done something valuable with your day."

- Dave Kovic

"It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays."

- Audrey Niffenegger

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

- Coco Chanel

"There are two types of patience. One is exercised in hard work and the other in idleness. Patience with hard work is the one that moves mountains. Patience in idleness moves nothing, not even cobwebs."

- Israelmore Ayivor

"When you take the small roads you see the life that goes on there, this makes your own life larger."

- Elizabeth Berg

"The future is uncertain but the end is always near."

- Jim Morrison

"Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not."

- Stephen King

"Time is a storm in which we are all lost."

- William Carlos Williams

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

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them."

- Dion Boucicault

"Time brings all things to pass."

- Aeschylus

"Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything."

- Wyatt Earp

"Haste in every business brings failures."

- Herodotus

"Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real."

- Cormac McCarthy

"Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book."

- E.A. Bucchianeri

"People hurry so they can get to places faster, where they’d rather not be, so they can have more time to do things they’d rather not be doing."

- Peter Turla

"Half our time is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save."

- Will Rogers

"Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly."

- Ivan Turgenev

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

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

- Bill Watterson

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

- Robert Frost

"There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying."

- Sarah Dessen

"We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done."

- Alan Turing

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

- Billy Gibbons

"Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why."

- Kurt Vonnegut

"Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this."

- Dave Eggers

"It’s surprising how much free time and productivity you gain when you lose the busyness in your mind."

- Brittany Burgunder

"A person who has not done one half his day’s work by ten o’clock runs a chance of leaving the other half undone."

- Emily Brontë

"The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time."

- Dante Alighieri

"Time is the least thing we have of."

- Ernest Hemingway

"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

"If one has no time, one has also lost oneself."

- Marc Wittmann

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

- Delmore Schwartz

"No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important."

- Mary Kay Ash

"Time, the devourer of all things."

- Ovid

"Old age and the passage of time teach all things."

- Sophocles

"One cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the water, one pops up while you try to hold down the other."

- Chinese Proverb

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now."

- Chinese Proverb

"Time moves in one direction, memory in another."

- William Gibson

"Multitasking arises out of distraction itself."

- Marilyn vos Savant

"In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these."

- Paul Harvey

"Let us then be up and doing, with a heart for any fate."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

- Paul Valéry

"Time will pass and seasons will come and go."

- Roy Bean

"Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity."

- Agatha Christie

"Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity."

- Hippocrates

"Time will explain."

- Jane Austen

"To live is so startling, it leaves little time for anything else."

- Emily Dickinson

"There's time enough, but none to spare."

- Charles W. Chesnutt

"Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people."

- Virginia Woolf

"Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire."

- Jorge Luis Borges

"Time is a dimension, like the dimensions of space."

- Stephen Hawking

"Each day provides its own gifts."

- Marcus Aurelius

"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."

- Emily Dickinson

"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all its pupils."

- Louis Hector Berlioz

"A stitch in time saves nine."

- Proverb

"Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things."

- Charles Caleb Colton

"Time, the consoler of affliction and softener of anger."

- Joseph Addison

"Time, the great healer of all wounds."

- Thomas Paine

"Time heals all wounds."

- Proverb

"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present controls the past."

- George Orwell

"Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have of them."

- Marcel Proust

"Enjoy life. There’s plenty of time to be dead."

- Hans Christian Andersen

"Time spent with cats is never wasted."

- Sigmund Freud

"Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather. He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop."

- Alfred Polgar

"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

"With technology and over-scheduling, we are forgetting to invest time in simple connective moments with others."

- Michelle Gielan

"They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!"

- Dr. Seuss

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Finley Peter Dunne

"Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!…. his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes."

- Charles Dickens

"Tough times never last, but tough people do."

- Robert Schuller

"If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?"

- Stephen Hawking

"Time is the longest distance between two places."

- Tennessee Williams

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

- Anthony G. Oettinger

"I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now."

- Edna Mode

"People are often so busy living that they never stopped to wonder why."

- Terry Pratchett

"Punctuality is the thief of time."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- J.K. Rowling

"Time can be a greedy thing – sometimes it steals the details for itself."

- Khaled Hosseini

"There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens."

- Ecclesiastes

"Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart."

- Haruki Murakami

"The trouble is, you think you have time."

"Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."

"Time heals what reason cannot."

"He who lets time pass by without action will live to regret it."

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

- Anonymous