20 Most Inspiring Quotes About Time for 2025
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Ola Rybacka
- January 3, 2022
- 5 min read

This article was last updated on December 5, 2024.
Looking for some inspiring quotes about time? The most popular are “time is money” by Benjamin Franklin or “time is the most valuable thing a man can spend” by Theophrastus. Read on to find some more quotes that you may not have heard before.
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One of those motivational cycles was “Time Quotes”. That’s why we want to remind our users what are the most inspiring quotes about time for us. Let’s be productive together!
There are some saying about time that everybody knows, but we hope that you’ll find here also some new quotes about time for 2025.
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20 Most Inspiring Quotes About Time
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
William Penn
Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
Hippocrates
Time is a created thing. To say “I don’t have time” is to say “I don’t want to”.
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Lao Tzu
It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.
Steve Jobs
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.
Albert Einstein
Better three hours to soon than one minute too late.
William Shakespeare
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have of them.
Marcel Proust
Never leave ’till tomorrow which you can do today.
Benjamin Franklin
Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell
Time is like the wind, it lifts the light and leaves the heavy.
Domenico Cieri Estrada
Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
Coco Chanel
Time expands, then contracts, and in tune with the stirrings of the heart .
Haruki Murakami
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol
There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.
Bill Watterson
In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.
Dan Simmons
For the present is the point at which time touches eternity.
C.S. Lewis
It’s not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it.
Seneca
Time is the wisest of all things that are, for it brings everything to light.
Thales
If time travel is possible, where are the tourist from the future?
Stephen Hawkings
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin
Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.
Roy T. Bennett
The key is not spending time, but in investing it.
Stephen R. Covey
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
Leonardo da Vinci
Time is a storm in which we are all lost.
William Carlos Williams
There’s never enough time to do it right, but there’s always enough time to do it over.
Jack Bergman
What is the most inspiring quote for you from the following ones?
Do you know any other foamous sayings about time which inspires you, but we didn’t mention it here?
Leave it in a comment!
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May 1, 2018 at 11:23
all quotes was really amazing and please try to add some more inspirational quotes for girls
May 31, 2018 at 17:37
Hello Ola Rybacka
Great quotes collected by you. Design quotes in the poster are really amazing. It is easy to read and makes it interesting. when I am in trouble I feel positiveness when reading your article. This one gives me extra energy for a stay motivated in my life
I am really thankful to you for sharing such a motivational post. I will wait for next post.
July 17, 2018 at 12:28
Perfect quotes collection, I especially like the Shakespeare’s one. I’ll share this quote on my social media!
November 24, 2018 at 12:34
All the quotes are so good, the best part is that all the quotes are written and added in images.
November 27, 2018 at 18:46
Amazing
“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst”
Really nice one.
December 9, 2018 at 19:02
Beautiful words. such an inspiring post. These words made my day.
thank you for sharing this.
February 14, 2019 at 15:43
Thank you for taking the time to make the quote pictures, awesome!
February 21, 2019 at 18:20
Best Inspirational-Motivational Quotes About Life very good collection
March 14, 2019 at 07:35
beautiful collection of words
thank you for sharing
May 10, 2019 at 16:09
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August 9, 2019 at 16:32
You will know what the time is. There are as many great man in this world. All of them have followed the time. Time is one such trick. Who never waits for anyone. Rather, people have to wait for time. People who make good use of time. Time also does well with them.
If you want to be successful in life, then you have to know the importance of time. Because you all know-
Nobody is so rich in this world
So that they can buy time,
And no one is so poor.
That he could not change his coming time.
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November 29, 2019 at 07:48
My favorite time quote “Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.” Thanks for sharing.
December 4, 2019 at 10:18
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it up.
September 26, 2020 at 21:16
Thank you so much, time is part of our lives, we need to use it promoting Love Peace, Justice and Compassion.
August 1, 2021 at 23:58
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