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.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
Unknown
Unknown
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The past is no longer yours; the future is not yet in your power. You have only the present wherein to do good.
Alphonse Kugoni
Alphonse Kugoni
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The only easy day was yesterday.
Mark Owen
Mark Owen
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A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad.
Shigeru Miyamoto
Shigeru Miyamoto
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Make it happen now, not tomorrow. Tomorrow is a loser's excuse.
Farrah Gray
Farrah Gray
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I want everyone to meet you. You're my favorite person of all time.
Rainbow Rowell
Rainbow Rowell
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Used to tell me the sky's the limit, now the sky is our point of view.
Big Sean
Big Sean
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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it's now or never.
Alan Bennett
Alan Bennett
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The work of today is the history of tomorrow, and we are its makers.
Juliette Gordon Low
Juliette Gordon Low
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The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future. You're going to look like you have magic powers compared to everybody else.
Gabe Newell
Gabe Newell
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As we look into the future, it's as far as we can see. So let's make each tomorrow be the best that it can be.
George Shatz
George Shatz
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It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime. What better place than here? What better time than now?
Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith
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Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.
Jean de La Bruyere
Jean de La Bruyere
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Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in installments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.
Jarod Kintz
Jarod Kintz
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What matters most is what lasts the longest and families are forever.
M. Russell Ballard
M. Russell Ballard
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Every time I look in the mirror, God looks back.
Liam Gallagher
Liam Gallagher
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I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
William Allen White
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900 years of time and space and I've never met anyone who wasn't important.
Doctor Who
Doctor Who
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Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
Unknown
Unknown
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You will never be as young as you are right now.
Neil Pasricha
Neil Pasricha
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Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.
Marina Abramovic
Marina Abramovic
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Be proactive not reactive, for an apparently insignificant issue ignored today can spawn tomorrow's catastrophe.
Jean Paul
Jean Paul
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We are not just highly evolved animals with biological computers embedded inside our skulls; we are also fields of consciousness without limits, transcending time, space, matter, and linear causality.
Danah Zohar
Danah Zohar
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Power, today, comes from sharing information, not withholding it.
Keith Ferrazzi
Keith Ferrazzi
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A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.
Lucinda Welty
Lucinda Welty
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When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.
Creighton W Abrams, Jr.
Creighton W Abrams, Jr.
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There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
David Eagleman
David Eagleman
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There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.
Eugene O'Neill
Eugene O'Neill
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To be early is to be on time, to be on time is to be late, to be late is to be forgotten.
Elin Hilderbrand
Elin Hilderbrand
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Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.
David Brooks
David Brooks
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He who is doing his true will is assisted by the momentum of the universe.
Peter J. Carroll
Peter J. Carroll
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There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.
Hugh Prather
Hugh Prather
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Time waits for no one.
Yasutaka Tatsuno
Yasutaka Tatsuno
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Take time off to give to yourself, in a sense to fill yourself up to fullness, to where now you can overflow in giving.
John Gray
John Gray
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It takes a long time to become a lawyer because you need three things - a bachelor's degree, a law degree, and a desire to worship Satan.
Craig Ferguson
Craig Ferguson
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But there's always a first time for everything.
Melissa de la Cruz
Melissa de la Cruz
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When you wake up, think about winning the day. Don't worry about a week or a month from now - just think about one day at a time.
Drew Brees
Drew Brees
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People must know the past to understand the present and to face the future.
Nellie L. McClung
Nellie L. McClung
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Everything changes with time's passage. Only change itself is constant.
Terry Brooks
Terry Brooks
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You're here for a good time, not a long time.
Colin McRae
Colin McRae
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All you have to do is win more today than you did yesterday and repeat the whole thing tomorrow.
Jon Acuff
Jon Acuff
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Today is Valentine's Day – or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!
Jay Leno
Jay Leno
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Take one step at a time, there's no need to rush.
Jordin Sparks
Jordin Sparks
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The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.
Wood Berson
Wood Berson
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Health care is vital to all of us some of the time, but public health is vital to all of us all of the time.
C. Everett Koop
C. Everett Koop
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I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.
Ralph Abernathy
Ralph Abernathy
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Don't rush. Go slowly. Be present.
Leo Babauta
Leo Babauta
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Something GOOD is going to happen to you today.
Oral Roberts
Oral Roberts
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