Best 23 Quotes About Time

Most of us want to do better with how we are spending our time, with more prioritizing and less procrastination. Time appears to go by faster and faster, we feel busier and there never seems to be enough time to complete tasks.

This year I want to do better with my time. I have some serious goals I want to accomplish, and that means managing time is crucial.

When I want to make a change, one tip that has been helpful to me is to find inspirational quotes I can post to keep me motivated. When researching quotes about “time,” there are several good ones. Here are the best 23 quotes about time I found. (Scroll to the end of this post for your link to get a FREE PDF of the “Best 23 Quotes About Time!”) 

Making the Best Use of Time:

“The trouble is, you think you have time”
– Jack Kornfield

“The common man is not concerned about the passage of time; the man of talent is driven by it”
– Arthur Schopenhauer

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

“Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday and avoiding today.”
– Wayne Dyer

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

“He who every morning plans the transactions of that
day and follows that plan carries a thread that will guide him
through the labyrinth of the most busy life.”
– Victor Hugo

“The most efficient way to live reasonably is
every morning to make a plan of one’s day and
every night to examine the results obtained.”
– Alexis Carrel

“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion
to complain of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much can be done if we are always doing.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think,
time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations,
time to become better men, time to become better women,
time to become better and more independent citizens”
– Samuel Gompers

“Time is one of your most valuable commodities
and how you spend it determines what your life will be.
You can either waste it, invest it or give it away.”
– David Khalil

When Times are Tough:  

“Tough times never last, but tough people do”
– Robert H. Schuller

“Time and the hour run through the roughest day”
– William Shakespeare

“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four-hour days.”
– Zig Ziglar

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

Making the Most of Today:  

“For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity”
– C.S. Lewis

“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come.
We have only today. Let us begin.”
– Mother Teresa

“At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test,
not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal.
You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.”
– Barbara Bush

“Serve God by doing common actions in a heavenly spirit, and then,
if your daily calling only leaves you cracks and crevices of time, fill them up with holy service.”
– Charles Spurgeon

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

“Prioritizing is an important aspect of productivity.
Listed tasks should be things that matter: things that are in alignment with your objectives
and do not distract you from what you really should be doing”
– Romuald Andrade

“Time management is an oxymoron.
Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives.
Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.”
– John C. Maxwell

“Do not wait: the time will never be ‘just right’.
Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command
and better tools will be found as you go along.”
– Napoleon Hill

“A plan is what, a schedule is when.
It takes both a plan and a schedule to get things done.”
– Peter Turla

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