Time Quotes

We all get the same 24 hours. These quotes explore what we do with them and why it matters.

20900 quotes

"Time flies, so we must not waste a single precious moment."
Louisa May Alcott
W
"Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician."
Washington Irving
W
"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life; it comes to us at midnight."
Washington Irving
"The old world breaks down while we are born into the new."
Willa Cather
"Time is the only force that cannot be bargained with or overcome."
Theodore Dreiser
"The future is nothing but the present extended and elaborated."
Theodore Dreiser
"We spend our lives preparing for a future that never arrives as expected."
Theodore Dreiser
"Time is the great arbiter; it reveals truth that present passion obscures."
James Fenimore Cooper
E
"Time moves differently for those who are waiting and those who are fulfilled."
Edith Wharton
E
"Time is the currency of life; spend it carefully."
Edith Wharton
"Time is the coin of your life; be careful how you spend it."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Time moves slowly, but you mustn't waste it on trivial pursuits."
Louisa May Alcott
"Time is the most precious commodity because it cannot be recovered once spent."
Louisa May Alcott
"The professor had an irritating way of glancing at his watch."
Willa Cather
E
"How often we forget all time is but the shadow cast by events and deeds, the proof of existences."
Edgar Allan Poe
W
"Time is a river that carries us toward our destiny, yet we remain its prisoners."
Washington Irving
W
"Time is the only true equalizer; it treats all mortals the same."
Washington Irving
"Time lost in idleness cannot be recovered; use each moment with purpose."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Time is the one currency that cannot be earned or saved, only spent."
James Fenimore Cooper
"Time moves at the same pace for all, yet feels different to each."
James Fenimore Cooper
E
"I have not time to spend with you in idle conversation."
Edgar Allan Poe
"One had to pay a price for that knowledge; one had to grow old."
Willa Cather
"The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been."
Louisa May Alcott
"The wheel of time brings its revenges."
Louisa May Alcott
"Time moves as a river—swift, relentless, and impossible to reclaim once it has passed."
James Fenimore Cooper
"Time is the coin of your life; it is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
W
"In the tapestry of time, each moment is a golden thread waiting to be woven."
Washington Irving
W
"Time waits for no one, yet the mark we leave upon the world outlives our years."
Washington Irving
E
"Forever is composed of nows."
Emily Dickinson