Time Quotes

Nine tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

Theodore Roosevelt

Lose an hour in the morning and you will be all day hunting for it.

Richard Whately

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

William Penn

What’s lost today may be won tomorrow.

Cervantes

Don’t serve time, make time serve you.

Willie Sutton

I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument, while the song I came to sing remains unsung.

Rabindranath Tagore

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Edward Young

Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage. The easiest of all wastes and the hardest to correct is the waste of time, because wasted time does not litter the floor like wasted material.

Henry Ford

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

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

Charles Darwin

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Brian Tracy

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

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

Thomas Edison

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Queen Elizabeth

Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.

John Randolph

Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Peter Drucker

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

Henry Ford

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

Art Buchwald

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

William Penn

Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed.

Peter Drucker

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Laertius Diogenes

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Denis Waitley

This too shall pass.

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

Baltasar Gracian

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Henry Ward Beecher

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person’s genius is confined to a very few hours.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Ted W Engstrom

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

Goethe

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

Stephen Covey

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

John F Kennedy

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Ted W Engstrom

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

Lord Chesterfield

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Mike Murdock

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

Henry David Thoreau

Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.

Josh Billings

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 not.

Henry Van Dyke

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

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

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

When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

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

Shakespeare

You may delay, but time will not.

Benjamin Franklin

To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Robert Updefraff

What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

John Howe

Lost time is never found again.

He lives long that lives well; and time misspent is not lived but lost.

Thomas Fuller

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

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

Charles Bixton

To choose time is to save time.

Francis Bacon

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

To save time is to lengthen life.

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

Alan Lakein

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

Golda Meir

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

William Frederick Book

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

Peter Drucker

Time is money.

Benjamin Franklin

Money, I can only gain or lose. But time I can only lose. So, I must spend it carefully.

The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Arnold Bennet

Review our priorities, ask the question; what’s the best use of our time right now?

Alan Lakein

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

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Richard Ben Sapir

People always make time to do the things they really want to do.

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

Michael Althsuler

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Bruce Lee

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, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

H Jackson Brown

O that you would realize that each moment is golden.

Ellen G White

Everything good needs time. Don’t do work in a hurry. Go into details; it pays in every way. Time means power for your work. Mediocrity is always in a rush, but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius us nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

Amelia Barr

Lost wealth may be replaced with industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

Samuel Smiles

The days are long but the years are short.

Gretchen Rubin

In many cases, the bottleneck to achieving results is simply making the time to do the work. You’re capable of exercising, but are you making the time? You’re capable of writing, but are you making the time? You’re capable of reading, but are you making the time?

James Clear

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

Napoleon Hill

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

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Leonardo Da Vinci