43+ Time Quotes On Life, Priority, And Change (2023)

43+ Time Quotes On Life, Priority, And Change (2023)

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Time is the best and most precious gift given to us.

Here are the best inspirational quotes and sayings for 2023 about valuing the gift of time and using it to its full potential in life.

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What Is Time Sayings

1. “Time is a small river in eternity’s ocean” – Matshona Dhliwayo

2. “Time is an illusion” – Albert Einstein


Quotes About Lost Time

3. “Lost time is never found again” – Benjamin Franklin

4. “Time slips through our fingers like grains of sand, never to return again” – Robin Sharma

5. “Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back” – Harvey MacKay

6. “You can’t make up for lost time. You can only do better in the future” – Ashley Ormon

7. “Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose” – Thomas Edison

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Quotes About Time Management

8. “Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else” – Peter F. Drucker

9. “Time comes to those who make it, not those who try to find it” – Jen Sincero; You Are a Badass at Making Money

10. “Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time’ is to say ‘I don’t want to'” – Lao Tzu

11. “If you keep waiting for the right time, you’ll keep living the wrong life” – Jen Sincero; You Are a Badass Everyday

12. “It’s not about having the time, it’s about managing the time you already have” – Rob Liano

13. “Gain control of your time, and you will gain control of your life” – John Landis Mason


Quotes On Value Of Time

14. “Time is the wisest counselor of all” – Pericles

15. “Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent” – Carl Sandburg

16. “Time is what we want most, but… what we use worst” – William Penn

17. “Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend” – Theophrastus

18. “Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life” – Norton Juster

19. “Time is what keeps everything from happening at once” – Ray Cummings

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Quotes About Stop Wasting Time

20. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life” – Steve Jobs

21. “Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life” – Alan Lakein

22. “If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of” – Bruce Lee

23. “Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy” – Roy T. Bennett

24. “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life” – Charles Darwin

25. “Time is the only commodity that is irreplaceable: invest it, share it, spend it…but never waste it” – Tracy Sherwood

26. “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time” – Marthe Troly-Curtin

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Quotes On How Time Flies

27. “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot” – Michael Altshuler

28. “Time flies, even if it has no wings” – Matshona Dhliwayo

29. “Time has wings and it can fly . A second spent wastefully can never be regained, a minute spent wisely is memorable and an hour spent well becomes an history” – Adewale Osunsakin

30. “Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind” – Nathaniel Hawthorne

31. “Time crawls when you are bored; walks when you are occupied; runs when you are busy; but flies when you are having fun” – Matshona Dhliwayo


Quotes About Time Passing Fast

32. “Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new” – Paracelsus

33. “Time is like an aeroplane after take off. It is always moving and only goes in one direction” – Clifford Thurlow

34. “Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever” – Anthony Doerr

35. “Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got” – Art Buchwald

36. “Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself” – Khaled Hosseini

37. “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

38. “Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time” – Jim Rohn


Respect Time Quotes

39. “Time doesn’t need to be found, it is in plain sight ticking away loudly all the time. How we use it is the only question” – Don Aslett

40. “One always has time enough, if one will apply it well” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

41. “Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity” – Jean de La Bruyère

42. “You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it” – Charles Brixton

43. “We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right” – Nelson Mandela

44. “It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary” – Veronica Roth

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Short Quotes About Time

45. “The trouble is, you think you have time” – Buddha

46. “Time does not pass, it continues” – Marty Rubin

47. “You may delay, but time will not” – Benjamin Franklin

48. “The way we spend our time defines who we are” – Jonathan Estrin

49. “Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not” – Stephen King

50. “The key is in not spending time, but in investing it” – Stephen R. Covey


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