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.

Every time we draw a line between us and others, Jesus is always on the other side of it.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
Nadia Bolz-Weber
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Your future self is watching you right now through your memories.
Aubrey de Grey
Aubrey de Grey
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Gather ye rose-buds while ye may. Old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, Tomorrow will be dying.
Robert Herrick
Robert Herrick
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Today is tough. Tomorrow is tougher. The day after tomorrow is beautiful. But most people die tomorrow night and don't get the chance to see the sun rise the day after tomorrow.
Nana Kumar
Nana Kumar
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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Theophrastus
Theophrastus
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It's what you do right now that makes a difference.
Mark Bowden
Mark Bowden
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The future of architecture is culture.
Philip Johnson
Philip Johnson
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The moment anyone tries to demean or degrade you in any way, you have to know how great you are. Nobody would bother to beat you down if you were not a threat.
Dicky Tran
Dicky Tran
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I also live in the present, due to the constraints of the space-time continuum.
Hank Green
Hank Green
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Denial is a save now, pay later scheme.
Gavin de Becker
Gavin de Becker
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Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.
Aaron Burr
Aaron Burr
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We create our future by well improving present opportunities, however few and small they may be.
Sees Howard Lutner
Sees Howard Lutner
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The present is the key to the past.
Charles Lyell
Charles Lyell
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Goodbyes are not forever and aren't the end; they are only until we meet again.
Vi Keeland
Vi Keeland
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You can only die once, so do not die a thousand times worrying about it.
Huey Newton
Huey Newton
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The past is history. The future is a mystery. The present is a gift.
Lisa Ungar
Lisa Ungar
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A fool will lose tomorrow reaching back for yesterday.
Dionne Warwick
Dionne Warwick
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I used to call myself a war photographer. Now I consider myself as an antiwar photographer.
James Nachtwey
James Nachtwey
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Today's human rights violations are the causes of tomorrow's conflicts.
Mary Robinson
Mary Robinson
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Culture outperforms strategy every time; and culture with strategy is unbeatable.
Quint Studer
Quint Studer
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If I had time in a bottle, if words could make wishes come true, I'd save everyday for eternity passes. And then I would spend them with you.
Unknown
Unknown
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To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland
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A new day is here. Yesterday is a memory. Tomorrow is unknown. Now is the knowing.
Ajahn Sumedho
Ajahn Sumedho
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If not now then when, if not me then who?
Malcolm X
Malcolm X
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The only person you should compete with is the person you were yesterday.
Dr Prem Jagyasi
Dr Prem Jagyasi
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He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past. - GEORGE ORWELL, 1984.
Unknown
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It is not "forgive and forget" as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but "forgive and go forward," building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
Alan Paton
Alan Paton
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Always remember, believe in today, believe in tomorrow, believe in yourself, and whatever happens, don't jump.
Ali Kaurdi
Ali Kaurdi
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The feeling that 'no one is listening to me' make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us.
Sherry Turkle
Sherry Turkle
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The past is history; The future is a mystery; This moment is a gift; That is why this moment is called the present; Enjoy it.
Alan Lakein
Alan Lakein
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The best time to act on this was decades ago. The second best time is now.
David Brin
David Brin
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History belongs in the past; but understanding it is the duty of the present.
Shashi Tharoor
Shashi Tharoor
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Futurology always ends up telling you more about your own time than about the future.
Matt Ridley
Matt Ridley
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Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift--that is why it is called the present.
Bill Keane
Bill Keane
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I'm going now. My time has come.
Daniel Boone
Daniel Boone
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I am very confused right now. In fact, I'm so confused that I'm confused about how confused I am.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Taylor Jenkins Reid
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Each workout is like a brick in a building, and every time you go in there and do a half-ass workout, you're not laying a brick down. Somebody else is.
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
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History is important. More than any other topic, it is about us. Whether one deems our present society wondrous or awful or both, history reveals how we got to this point
James W. Loewen
James W. Loewen
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Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.
Michael London
Michael London
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God speaks to all individuals through what happens to them moment by moment.
Jean-Pierre de Caussade
Jean-Pierre de Caussade
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There are only two times in life, there's now and there's too late.
Anh Do
Anh Do
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You pile up enough tomorrows and you'll be left with nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering.
Woody Woodpecker
Woody Woodpecker
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It's been a long time coming. But I know a change is gonna come.
Sam Cooke
Sam Cooke
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For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become.
Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy
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Time is the most valuable thing that a man can spend.
Diogenes Laertius
Diogenes Laertius
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Don't take anything for granted, because tomorrow is not promised to any of us.
Kimby Puckett
Kimby Puckett
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Time waits for no man.
Choi Hong Hi
Choi Hong Hi
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