100+ Best Quotes About Time – Powerful Sayings on Life, Love & Success

“Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time’ is like saying ‘I don’t want to.’” – Lao Tzu

“The past has no power over the present moment.” – Eckhart Tolle

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

“We are not makers of history. We are made by history.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

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

“Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control… We all go this enforced journey.” – Albert Einstein

“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.” – Albert Einstein

“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” – George Orwell

“Time is an illusion.” – Albert Einstein

“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

“The future is already here — it's just not evenly distributed.” – William Gibson

“Time is a river that carries me along, but I am the river.” – Jorge Luis Borges

“Don’t count the days, make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali

“The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” – Stephen R. Covey

“Time management is life management.” – Robin Sharma

“Lost time is never found again.” – Benjamin Franklin

“You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.” – Charles Buxton

“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” – Michael Altshuler

“Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.” – Robert Kiyosaki

“Focus on being productive instead of busy.” – Tim Ferriss

“One hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Do it now. Sometimes ‘later’ becomes ‘never’.” – Proverb

“Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.” – Peter Drucker

“Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

“The trouble is, you think you have time.” – Buddha

“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon

“Make each day your masterpiece.” – John Wooden

“Seize the day, put yesterday behind you.” – Horace

“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” – Mother Teresa

“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 gone, you can never get it back.” – Harvey Mackay

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” – Chinese Proverb

“Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs

“Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.” – Albert Schweitzer

“Time given is better than money spent.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Live in the present, launch into the future, don’t worry about the past.” – Mel Robbins

“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson

“Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying.” – Robert Herrick

“Time lifts the curtain slowly, revealing scenes we dare not see.” – Emily Dickinson

“Nothing gold can stay.” – Robert Frost

“Time parts all company.” – William Shakespeare

“How soon does time steal away the blossoms of our youth?” – John Keats

“The years teach much which the days never know.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, time stays, we go.” – Henry Austin Dobson

“Spring lingered like a person reluctant to leave.” – Toni Morrison

“Time is the longest distance between two places.” – Tennessee Williams

“Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.” – Oprah Winfrey

“Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.” – Faith Baldwin

“The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise.” – Arthur Rubinstein

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did.” – Mark Twain

“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.” – Sydney J. Harris

“I have no regrets. None at all. But I do have sorrows.” – Mitch Albom

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” – H.P. Lovecraft

“We regret the things we do, but we also deeply regret the chances we never took.” – Mignon McLaughlin

“If I had my life to live over, I would have made a broader survey of the world.” – Helen Hayes

“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.” – Dale Carnegie

“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.” – Steve Jobs

“The worst part of holding onto the past is realizing that you’ve lost the present.” – Unknown

“Regret is the echo of a dream unfulfilled.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.” – Seneca

“The biggest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today.” – Seneca

“The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” – Albert Einstein

“Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.” – Physicist Ray Cummings

“Time is relative. The five minutes it takes to boil an egg feels longer than the two hours at a concert.” – Albert Einstein

“The flow of time is an illusion, and that fundamentally the universe is timeless.” – Carlo Rovelli

“Time is not absolute. It changes with speed and gravity.” – Stephen Hawking

“The arrow of time points from order to disorder.” – Arthur Eddington

“We travel not in space, but through time.” – Brian Greene

“Time is nature’s way of keeping everything from happening at once.” – Woody Allen (paraphrasing physics)

“There is no single 'now' throughout the universe.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Time is a coordinate, just like space.” – Michio Kaku

“Our sense of time is a cognitive construct.” – Dean Buonomano

“Entropy defines the direction of time.” – Sean Carroll

“All things come to those who wait.” – William Penn

“Patience is not the ability to wait, but how you act while you’re waiting.” – Joyce Meyer

“Rome wasn’t built in a day, but they were laying bricks every hour.” – James Clear

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” – Lao Tzu

“Good things come to those who sweat, who fight, who work, and who wait.” – Roy T. Bennett

“With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes silk.” – Chinese Proverb

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier

“Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.” – Ovid

“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.” – Robert Jordan

“Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.” – Samuel Johnson

“Patience, persistence, and perspiration make an unbeatable combination.” – Napoleon Hill

“Trusting divine timing means believing that everything unfolds exactly as it should.” – Unknown

“The legacy you leave is every life you touch.” – Ryan Blair

“Legacy is not leaving something for people. It’s leaving something in people.” – Peter Buffett

“A legacy is not a monument of stone, but the imprint of a soul.” – Unknown

“What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.” – Ralph Marston

“The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening.” – Henry David Thoreau

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” – Thomas Campbell

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life… Don’t settle.” – Steve Jobs

“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” – Pablo Picasso

“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.” – Pericles

“Legacy is the story people tell about you when you’re not in the room.” – Randy Pausch

“Plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit.” – Nelson Henderson

“I’m not late. You’re just early.” – Unknown

“Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.” – Groucho Marx

“I used to have a handle on time, but then it broke.” – Unknown

“An alarm clock is a device designed to ruin a perfectly good nap.” – Unknown

“I’m not lazy, I’m on energy-saving mode.” – Unknown

“I always arrive late at work, but I make up for it by leaving early.” – Charles Lamb

“The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.” – Steven Wright

“I don’t need a calendar. My life is chaos.” – Unknown

“Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.” – Ray Cummings (with a wink)

“I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised.” – Steven Wright

“It’s not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.” – Albert Einstein (often quoted humorously)

“I’m not ignoring you. I’m just prioritizing my peace.” – Unknown

“True love stories never have endings.” – Richard Bach

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu

“Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Franklin P. Jones

“Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go.” – Roy T. Bennett

“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” – Maya Angelou

“Forever is composed of nows.” – Emily Dickinson

“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn

“If I had to define love in one word, I’d pick time. Because the only thing you can give someone that you can never get back is time.” – Unknown

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle

“Time passes. Life happens. Distance comes between us. But true friendship stays.” – Unknown

“To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you are the world.” – Bill Wilson

“Spending time with you feels like home.” – Unknown