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.

Don't wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and make it perfect!
Aryn Kyle
Aryn Kyle
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Nothing lasts forever.
Sidney Sheldon
Sidney Sheldon
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It's not the time to look for excuses.
Rafael Nadal
Rafael Nadal
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Enjoy every moment. Today will never come back.
Debashish Mridha
Debashish Mridha
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We not only respect babies, we demonstrate our respect every time we interact with them. Respecting a child means treating even the youngest infant as a unique human being, not as an object.
Marie Genny
Marie Genny
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Be here now.
Ram Dass
Ram Dass
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Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
James Naughton
James Naughton
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Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.
David Mitchell
David Mitchell
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The greatest thing about tomorrow is, I will be better than I am today.
Tiger Woods
Tiger Woods
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Sabbath is that uncluttered time and space in which we can distance ourselves from our own activities enough to see what God is doing.
Eugene H. Peterson
Eugene H. Peterson
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The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.
William Gibson
William Gibson
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God is good all the time. Every time.
Russell Wilson
Russell Wilson
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You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits will change your future.
Andul Karrim
Andul Karrim
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Optimum nutrition is the medicine of tomorrow.
Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling
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Geography is the subject which holds the key to our future.
Michael Palin
Michael Palin
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It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.
Unknown
Unknown
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If today you are a little bit better than you were yesterday, then that's enough. And, if tomorrow you are a little bit better than you were today, then that's enough.
David A. Bednar
David A. Bednar
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Our future lies with today's kids and tomorrow's space exploration.
Sally Ride
Sally Ride
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The time for change is now.
Jacqueline Novogratz
Jacqueline Novogratz
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Photography is an art of teleporting the past into the future.
Unknown
Unknown
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Most things remain undone. Glorious future!
Ingvar Kamprad
Ingvar Kamprad
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We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter
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You are too concerned with what was and what will be. There is a saying: Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
Rusty Tu Planter
Rusty Tu Planter
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We do not remember days, we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
Cesare Pavese
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Great moments are born from great opportunities.
Herb Brooks
Herb Brooks
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I will wait for you as long as it takes. I will love you every moment across time.
Lauren Kate
Lauren Kate
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The future is unwritten.
Joe Strummer
Joe Strummer
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There's never a right time to say goodbye.
Chris Brown
Chris Brown
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Times are bad, God is good.
Richard Sibbes
Richard Sibbes
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On a mission your worst enemy is idle time.
Nipsey Hussle
Nipsey Hussle
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Don't waste your time chasing butterflies. Mend your garden, and the butterflies will come.
Mario Quintana
Mario Quintana
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When you meet someone, treat them as if they were in serious trouble, and you will be right more than half the time.
Harry & Syring
Harry & Syring
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Legacy is not what's left tomorrow when you're gone. It's what you give, create, impact and contribute today while you're here that then happens to live on.
Richard Cytowski
Richard Cytowski
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If not now, when?
Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolle
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I'm looking forward to the future, and feeling grateful for the past.
Mike Rowe
Mike Rowe
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Dream as if you will live forever; Live as if you will die today.
James Dean
James Dean
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Enough is enough and it's time for a change.
Owen Hart
Owen Hart
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Time and silence are the most luxurious things today.
Tom Ford
Tom Ford
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Practice every time you get a chance.
Bill Monroe
Bill Monroe
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If not us, then who? If not now, then when?
John E. Lewis
John E. Lewis
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Past performance is no guarantee of future results.
Jason Fried
Jason Fried
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God is never too late, nor too early, but just on time.
R.T. Kendall
R.T. Kendall
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People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.
Matthew Heineman
Matthew Heineman
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Stay hungry, remain humble and get better today.
Pete Carroll
Pete Carroll
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Live today like there's no tomorrow!
Jerry Spinelli
Jerry Spinelli
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Why? Why not? Why not you? Why not now?
Reza Aslan
Reza Aslan
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Time is a precious thing. Never waste it.
Gene Wilder
Gene Wilder
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That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.
Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace
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