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.

Now is a time for change, a time to become the greatest version of yourself. And a time to make your grandest vision of the world.
Jacki Lau
Jacki Lau
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The mask, given time, comes to be the face itself.
Marguerite Yourcenar
Marguerite Yourcenar
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If nothing changes, nothing changes. If you always do what you always did, then you'll always get what you always got. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, and every time expecting a different result.
Caroline Ryan Hyde
Caroline Ryan Hyde
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But that is another story and shall be told another time.
Michael Ende
Michael Ende
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Things that have never happened before happen all the time.
Morgan Housel
Morgan Housel
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The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
G.H. Hardy
G.H. Hardy
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Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available.
C. Northcote Parkinson
C. Northcote Parkinson
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One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Time spent in reconnaissance is seldom wasted.
John Marsden
John Marsden
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Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled.
Edward Young
Edward Young
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I'm not worried. My time will come.
Freddy Adu
Freddy Adu
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If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.
Catherine Booth
Catherine Booth
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Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.
Anthony Doerr
Anthony Doerr
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Your future is whatever you make it, so make it a good one.
Doc Brown
Doc Brown
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life. And if that doesn't work out for you, Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your life...
Bob Saget
Bob Saget
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Nonverbal communication is an elaborate secret code that is written nowhere, known by none, and understood by all.
Edward Sapir
Edward Sapir
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God is never late and rarely early. He is always exactly right on time – His time.
Dillon Burroughs
Dillon Burroughs
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Linux is only free if your time has no value.
Jamie Zawinski
Jamie Zawinski
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Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer's standard of quality and perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products.
Niklaus Wirth
Niklaus Wirth
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The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.
Ann Richards
Ann Richards
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Life is not a race, but a journey to be savoured each step of the way. Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery and today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.
Brian O'Byrne
Brian O'Byrne
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One step at a time, one task at a time.
Jordan M. Alexander
Jordan M. Alexander
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The Bad News Is Time Flies, The Good News Is You're The Pilot.
Michael Altshuler
Michael Altshuler
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The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
L.P. Hartley
L.P. Hartley
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Today was a difficult day. Tomorrow will be better.
Kevin Henkes
Kevin Henkes
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Don't waste my time- I'm not stupid, and I'm not gullible.
Laura C. Schlessinger
Laura C. Schlessinger
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One breath, one moment, one day at a time.
Kirsten Beyer
Kirsten Beyer
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It can't rain all the time.
James O'Barr
James O'Barr
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What got us to where we are today is not going to get us to where we need to go tomorrow.
Blake Mycoskie
Blake Mycoskie
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Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain You are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today And then one day you find, ten years has got behind you No one told you where to run, you missed the starting gun.
Unknown
Unknown
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Never worry about anything. Live in the present. Live now. Be happy.
Marcello Ficino
Marcello Ficino
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There's still time to change the road you're on.
Robert Plant
Robert Plant
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When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment, or the moment defines you.
Keon Coffier
Keon Coffier
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Ignorance and arrogance are a lethal combination. Nowhere do we see that more clearly among writers and performers who pontificate as historians when they know nothing about history.
Victor Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson
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I'm a quiet person. I spend time observing, not speaking.
Norman Reedus
Norman Reedus
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When the past is forgotten. the present is unforgettable.
Martin Amis
Martin Amis
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There is no time like the present...
Georgia Byng
Georgia Byng
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If I were to pick a language to use today other than Java, it would be Scala.
James Gosling
James Gosling
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You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place, I told him, like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be this way ever again.
Audrey
Audrey
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You can't change the past so don't let it haunt you. You can change the future but first you've got to want to.
Pat Namaker
Pat Namaker
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And we'll never be as young as we are right now.
Jim Steinman
Jim Steinman
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Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?
Gregory Peck
Gregory Peck
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No rage, no hate, no love, no past. Just now.
Susan Dennard
Susan Dennard
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When you hit rock bottom, you have nowhere to go but up.
Pattie Mallette
Pattie Mallette
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The goal of forecasting is not to predict the future but to tell you what you need to know to take meaningful action in the present.
Paul Saffo
Paul Saffo
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The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.
Wendell Phillips
Wendell Phillips
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No time like the present.
Jeffrey Archer
Jeffrey Archer
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