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Time Quotes

66 quotes on time and how we spend it — from the classics to the everyday.

“For me the future of the image is going to be in electronic form.”

Ansel Adams · Interview with Paul Hill (March 1975), published in Dialogue with Photography (1979)

“You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short.”

Eleanor Roosevelt · My Day, 5 February 1943

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.”

Seneca · On the Shortness of Life

“The trouble is, you think you have time.”

Jack Kornfield · Buddha's Little Instruction Book, 1994

“Nothing is worth more than this day.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot.”

Michael Altshuler

“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”

Marthe Troly-Curtin · Phrynette Married, 1912

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”

Annie Dillard · The Writing Life, 1989

“I could tell you my adventures, beginning from this morning, but it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”

Alice · Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1865

“I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”

Alice · Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1865

“It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”

Alice · Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1865

“How old would you be if you didn't know how old you was?”

Satchel Paige

“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.”

Mark Twain

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”

Ferris Bueller · Ferris Bueller's Day Off, 1986

“The trouble is, you think you have time.”

Jack Kornfield · Buddha's Little Instruction Book