Time Quotes

"All who have come must go – king, pauper or wandering fakir."

Kabir

"Being busy does not always mean real work."

Thomas Edison

"Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature, flows equably without relation to anything external."

Isaac Newton

"What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know."

Saint Augustine

"All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist."

Kurt Vonnegut

"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by."

Douglas Adams

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."

Mother Teresa

"Time passes unhindered. When we make mistakes, we cannot turn the clock back and try again. All we can do is use the present well."

"Life is available only in the present moment."

Thich Nhat Hanh

"Be here now."

Ram Dass

"Wherever you go, there you are."

Jon Kabat-Zinn

"This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now."

Alan Watts

"Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present."

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."

Søren Kierkegaard

"Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself is a slave."

"We are so unwise that we wander about in times that are not ours."

Blaise Pascal

"Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution."

Brian Tracy

"Time = Life; therefore, waste your time and waste your life, or master your time and master your life."

Alan Lakein

"Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed."

Peter Drucker

"Procrastination is the thief of time; collar him!"

Charles Dickens

"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out."

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream."

Kahlil Gibran

"The present is the living sum-total of the whole Past."

Thomas Carlyle

"Time did not pass; it is we who passed. We did not enjoy pleasures; it is we who were consumed."

Bhartrihari