Time Quotes

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

Earl Nightingale

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have – for their usefulness.

Thomas Merton

The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.

Stephen R. Covey

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

Thomas Hardy

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

William Shakespeare

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

George Herbert

An inch of time is an inch of gold, but you can’t buy that inch of time with an inch of gold.

Chinese Proverb

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Leo Tolstoy

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

Margaret Thatcher

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