Top 371 Time Quotes

Time is the one resource no one gets more of. These quotes on time, from philosophers to scientists, turn an abstract idea into something practical: how to spend the present, make peace with the past, and stop waiting for the perfect moment.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Groucho Marx
Groucho Marx
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
H.G. Wells
H.G. Wells
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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
L. Ron Hubbard
L. Ron Hubbard
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I want it all and I want it now.
Freddie Mercury
Freddie Mercury
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The decisions you make today will determine the stories you tell tomorrow.
Craig Groeschel
Craig Groeschel
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Ten years from now you'll laugh at whatever's stressing you out today. So why not laugh now?
Tony Robbins
Tony Robbins
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
Janis Joplin
Janis Joplin
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The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.
Mike Murdock
Mike Murdock
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What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that's gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
Unknown
Unknown
Also featured in: family

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What you do today determines who you will be tomorrow.
John Spencer
John Spencer
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Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
William Penn
William Penn
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The medicine of the future will be music and sound.
Edgar Cayce
Edgar Cayce
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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir
Also featured in: life change

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Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
Also featured in: mindfulness

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The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
M. Jackson Brown Jr.
M. Jackson Brown Jr.
Also featured in: success

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All we are doing is looking at the time line, from the moment the customer gives us an order to the point when we collect the cash. And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value adding wastes.
Taiichi Ohno
Taiichi Ohno
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This or something better now manifests for me in totally satisfying and harmonious ways, for the highest good of all concerned.
Shakti Gawain
Shakti Gawain
Also featured in: change

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Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.
Swami Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda
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Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me!
David Lynch
David Lynch
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Take a deep breath. Get present in the moment and ask yourself what is important this very second.
Greg McKeown
Greg McKeown
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Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
George Santayana
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After all, tomorrow is another day.
Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Mitchell
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Assessment is today's means of modifying tomorrow's instruction.
Carol Ann Tomlinson
Carol Ann Tomlinson
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Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.
Bill Keane
Bill Keane
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
Lyndon B Johnson
Lyndon B Johnson
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There's always tomorrow and it always gets better
Ariana Grande
Ariana Grande
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It has always been forever, for me, Sassenach.
Diana Gabaldon
Diana Gabaldon
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Focus on the present moment. Stay in the moment.
Tony Horton
Tony Horton
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Don't ruin a good today by thinking of a bad yesterday. Let it go!
Russell Simmons
Russell Simmons
Also featured in: wisdom

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You've changed me forever. And I'll never forget you.
Kiera Cass
Kiera Cass
Also featured in: change

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Light tomorrow with today!
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Also featured in: positivity

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You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.
Charles Buxton
Charles Buxton
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Now is the time to take back your energy, your power, and your peace.
Debbie Ford
Debbie Ford
Also featured in: positivity mindfulness

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Radical acceptance rests on letting go of the illusion of control and a willingness to notice and accept things as they are right now, without judging.
Marsha M. Linehan
Marsha M. Linehan
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Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.
Tobias Tebbe
Tobias Tebbe
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Empowering women is key to building a future we want.
Amartya Sen
Amartya Sen
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Today, we fight for tomorrow.
Victoria Aveyard
Victoria Aveyard
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The future is a concept, it doesn't exist. There is no such thing as tomorrow. There never will be because time is always now. That's one of the things we discover when we stop talking to ourselves and stop thinking. We find there is only present, only an eternal now.
Alan Watts
Alan Watts
Also featured in: life wisdom

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It is always cheaper to do the job right the first time.
Phil Crosby
Phil Crosby
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Be so busy improving your self that you have no time to criticize others.
Unknown
Unknown
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Be better today than you were yesterday, and be better tomorrow than you are today.
Lorenzo Snow
Lorenzo Snow
Also featured in: change

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You'll have time to rest when you're dead.
Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro
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The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
Carol Whitney
Carol Whitney
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The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters.
Antonio Gramsci
Antonio Gramsci
Also featured in: life adversity

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It is not important to be better than someone else, but to be better than yesterday.
Kensho Jigoro
Kensho Jigoro
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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
Henry van Dyke
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Making a better tomorrow, tomorrow.
Stephen Colbert
Stephen Colbert
Also featured in: change

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Don't waste your time or time will waste you.
Muse
Muse
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