65 Best Time Quotes On Success In Life

These time quotes will inspire you. Time, the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole.

Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging time quotes, time sayings, and time proverbs.

Inspirational Time Quotes

1. “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
2. “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” ~ J. R. R. Tolkien
3. “We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.” ~ H. G. Wells , Time quotes for life

4. “To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom.” ~ Bertrand Russell

5. “We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they’re called memories. Some take us forward, they’re called dreams.” ~ Jeremy Irons
6. “The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.” ~ Leo Tolstoy
7. “Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.” ~ Jim Rohn

8. “Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted.” ~ John Lennon

9. “The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.” ~ Albert Einstein
10. “Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.” ~ Carl Sandburg
11. “Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.” ~ Henry Van Dyke

12. “Don’t waste your time chasing butterflies. Mend your garden, and the butterflies will come.” ~ Mario Quintana

13. “Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
14. “The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
15. “Light tomorrow with today!” ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
16. “Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.” ~ Dale Carnegie

17. “Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.” ~ Rose Kennedy

18. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” ~ Steve Jobs
19. “I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.” ~ Albert Einstein
20. “Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.” ~ Miguel de Cervantes
21. “Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.” ~ Coco Chanel

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

23. “Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.” ~ William Penn
24. “One today is worth two tomorrows.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
25. “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” ~ Charles Darwin
26. “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

27. “Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.” ~ Hector Berlioz

28. “This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
29. “If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” ~ Bruce Lee , Time quotes for love
30. “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four-hour days.” ~ Zig Ziglar

31. “Time and memory are true artists; they remold reality nearer to the heart’s desire.” ~ John Dewey

32. “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
33. “You will never ‘find’ time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.” ~ Charles Buxton
34. “Don’t waste your time being upset about something you can’t change. Begin again and do it better this time.” ~ Joyce Meyer

35. “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.” ~ Bruce Lee

36. “The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started.” ~ Dawson Trotman
37. “Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.” ~ Max Frisch
38. “Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.” ~ Khalil Gibran

39. “I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.” ~ William Shakespeare

40. “All the money in the world doesn’t mean a thing if you don’t have time to enjoy it.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
41. “Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.” ~ Art Buchwald
42. “Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.” ~ Jorge Luis Borges

43. “There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself.” ~ Anthony Rapp

44. “We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.” ~ Roald Dahl
45. “For centuries, man believed that the sun revolves around the earth. Centuries later, he still thinks that time moves clockwise.” ~ Robert Breault
46. “Time and tide wait for no man.” ~ Geoffrey Chaucer

47. “For time is the longest distance between two places.” ~ Tennessee Williams

48. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” ~ Robert H. Schuller
49. “Tempus fugit (time flies).” ~ Ovid
50. “Lost time is never found again.” ~ Benjamin Franklin

51. “To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.” ~ Leonard Bernstein

52. “Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.” ~ Wayne Dyer
53. “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 , Time quotes for watches
54. “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

55. “Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.” ~ Jean de la Bruyere

56. “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
57. “Time’s the king of men; he’s both their parent, and he is their grave and gives them what he will, not what they crave.” ~ William Shakespeare
58. “There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.” ~ Anais Nin

59. “Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.” ~ Jerome K. Jerome

60. “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
61. “Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.” ~ Auguste Rodin

62. “The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now.” ~ Rick Warren

63. “Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is it’s current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
64. “The big things that come our way are … the fruit of seeds planted in the daily routine of our work.” ~ William Feather
65. “But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli

Summary: Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future.

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