Time Quotes and Sayings

"Precious is time, fleeting, then gone"
John McLeod, from Precious is time

"Time is money." Italian Proverb

"Balance your time expenditures so you can spend time with the people that you love." Steve Brunkhorst

"It's easy to make it through the good times; it's how we handle the bad times that can separates us from the crowd and move us closer to our goals." Phillip Crone, from The Secret of Success

"Wisdom is unchanging! Information and ideas, technology and techniques, practices and habits, fashions and perceptions change frequently, but the wisdom of the 17th or 18th century is still wisdom in the 21st century and will still be wisdom in the 23rd century. If it changes, it wasn't wisdom. Wisdom is unchanging and timeless." contributed by: Brian D. Kennedy

"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 Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein." H. Jackson Brown

"Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. " Og Mandino

"Hands of time move us forward, never back. Only memories frozen in mind, can we re-enact." Robert M. Hensel

"Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away." Ben Hecht

"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

"Goals will help you to use your time both efficiently and effectively. People without goals usually accomplish much less than they are capable of achieving." Catherine Pulsifer, from Wings for Goals

"The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, “In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!" John F. Kennedy

"I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves." Lord Chesterfield

"A stitch in time saves nine." French Proverb

"One today is worth two tomorrows." Benjamin Franklin

"Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure?" Author Unknown

"If there was ever a time to dare, to make a difference, to embark on something worth doing, IT IS NOW." Author Unknown, from Words of Encouragement for Teens

"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

"Take time to smell the roses." Russian Proverb

"I don't dwell in the past; I don't wallow in old events and emotions. I don't waste time on regret. No use going over and over the details of what already happened." Yanni

"Winning is not a sometime thing: it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do the right thing once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing." Vince Lombardi

"Tomorrow life is too late; live today." Martial

"Be thankful for the difficult times. During those times you grow." Author Unknown, from Be Thankful

"I wish I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours." Bernard Berenson

"Time is a great story teller." Irish Proverb

"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

"You can determine what your future holds based on how much time and energy you spend working on yourself now." Les Brown

"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

"One thing you can't recycle is wasted time. Lost time is never found again." Author Unknown, from The Road to Success is Always Under Construction

"Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time." Brian Tracy

"You may delay, but time will not." Benjamin Franklin

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

"If you spend time getting ready to be perfect and do not start out to accomplish your dreams, you will find out later that you could have accomplished your dream if you had just acted." David DeNotaris

"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you." Carl Sandburg

"Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others." Christian D. Larsen, from The Optimist Creed

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

"Time and words can't be recalled, even if it was only yesterday." Yiddish Proverb

"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

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

"Every one has the gift of time, but few utilise." M. K. Soni

"How can we resent the life we've created for ourselves? Who's to blame, who's to credit, but us? Who can change it, any time we wish, but us?" Richard Bach

"Yesterday is long gone, and there are no guarantees we will see tomorrow. Today is what we have and how we use it determines our appreciation of time." Catherine Pulsifer

"Time is also one of the commodities that we can not buy back; we can not exchange anything we possess to trade for time that has been wasted or squandered." Catherine Pulsifer, from Time Will Continue To Tick By

"The length of time it takes to reach your goal depends on the intensity of your desire." Michelle C. Ustaszeski

"But when you look at your life, the majority of your time is spent doing things you have to do or the majority of your time is spent doing what you want to do?" Catherine Pulsifer, from Wanna Do's

"God didn't have time to make a nobody, only a somebody.I believe that each of us has God-given talents within us waiting to be brought to fruition." Mary Kay Ash

"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

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