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Quotes on time, its value and its passing. This hand-picked collection brings together 30 of the finest time quotes ever written — from William Wordsworth, Napoleon Hill, Henry David Thoreau and other great voices. Tap Copy on any quote to save or share it.

Life is divided into three terms — that which was, which is, and which will be.

— William Wordsworth

Time spent with cats is never wasted.

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Henry David Thoreau

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The heart was made to be broken, but also to be healed by time and love.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.

Forever is composed of nows.

— Emily Dickinson

Lost time is never found again.

— Benjamin Franklin

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

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

— Steve Jobs

That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.

— Emily Dickinson

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

— Rabindranath Tagore

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives.

— Dalai Lama

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

One day you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now.

— Paulo Coelho

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

— Jim Rohn

The years teach much which the days never know.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

A stitch in time saves nine.

— English Proverb

Time flies, never to be recalled.

— Virgil

Time spent with a cat is never wasted; it is an investment in contentment.

The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.

— Lewis Carroll

Don't count the days; make the days count.

— Muhammad Ali

Better late than never.

— English Proverb

Sweet childish days, that were as long as twenty days are now.

— William Wordsworth

It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it.

— Seneca

Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted.

— John Lennon

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