Time, Aging & Legacy: Time Quotes

Discover thoughtful quotes that explore the flow of time, its quiet momentum, fleeting moments, and daily rhythms. These selections encourage reflection, balance between urgency and patience, and attention to what truly matters. From mindful routines to life-defining milestones, the words here connect time with growth, aging, and the legacies we shape. Browse to find perspective for planning, perseverance, and gratitude, and to reframe how minutes, days, and years can be invested with meaning.

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"How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?"

Dr. Seuss, Writer

Dr. Seuss

"The trouble with the future is that is usually arrives before we're ready for it"

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

Arnold H. Glasow

"The years teach much which the days never know"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"All my possessions for a moment of time"

Elizabeth I, Royalty

Elizabeth I

"The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

Albert Einstein

"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there"

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

Charles F. Kettering

"Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future"

William Wordsworth, Poet

William Wordsworth

"Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever"

Horace Mann, Educator

Horace Mann

"The future influences the present just as much as the past"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

Friedrich Nietzsche

"Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January"

Hal Borland, Author

Hal Borland

"Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note"

Hank Stram, Athlete

"Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn"

Delmore Schwartz, Poet

Delmore Schwartz

"I wasted time, and now doth time waste me"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

William Shakespeare

"Better three hours too soon than a minute too late"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

William Shakespeare

"You may delay, but time will not"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

Benjamin Franklin

"Alice: How long is forever? White Rabbit: Sometimes, just one second"

Lewis Carroll, Author

Lewis Carroll

"History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man"

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet

Percy Bysshe Shelley

"If something's important to you, you make time for it"

Mia Maestro, Actress

Mia Maestro

"We must use time as a tool, not as a couch"

John F. Kennedy, President

John F. Kennedy

"Time moves in one direction, memory in another"

William Gibson, Writer

"Time and the hour run through the roughest day"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

William Shakespeare

"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do"

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher

Jean-Paul Sartre

"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, Writer

Earl Nightingale

"Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life"

Alan Lakein, Businessman

Alan Lakein

"We are tomorrow's past"

Mary Webb, Novelist

Mary Webb

"When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

Friedrich Nietzsche

"No man is rich enough to buy back his past"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

Oscar Wilde

"Time is what we want most, but what we use worst"

William Penn, Leader

William Penn

"The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell"

Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist

"You must never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it"

Charles Buxton, Public Servant

"I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress"

William Whipple, Politician

"What is past is prologue"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

William Shakespeare

"Time stays, we go"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

H. L. Mencken

"Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

Steve Jobs

"Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour"

Ovid, Poet

Ovid

"The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities"

Stephen Covey, Businessman

Stephen Covey

"But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained"

Virgil, Writer

"The past is never dead. It's not even past"

William Faulkner, Novelist

William Faulkner

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