Quotes about time – 15 timeless quotes with explanations

These quotes about time have a clear message- time once gone, is gone forever.

Most of you crib that you do not have enough time in your hand. And you also coolly brush aside your nonperformance by saying that if only you had time, you would have achieved incredible success.

You are hiding your lagging by quoting lack of time.

God has gifted every one of us with 24 precious hours.

You can make or unmake your life by the way you use your time.  

If you want to succeed in your life, you must understand that time is as precious as gold.

The ticking sound of the clock warns you that you are whiling away your time doing nothing, when you should in actual fact be doing everything to succeed.

Just have a look at these priceless quotes about time.

You will understand the value of your 24 hours.

Shall we now dive right into the treasure-like quotes about time.

No 1. “Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.” – Carl Sandburg

Meaning

Time is precious. It is as valuable as the money you have in your hand.

Only you have the authority to decide how your time should be spent.

When you do nothing, your time will be stolen by people who will make you indulge in things that does nothing for your success.

No 2. “Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.” – Theophrastus

Meaning

Time is more valuable than anything you can possess.

When you lose your money; you can get it back.

When you lose your success; you can acquire it back.

But once time goes away from you, you can never regain it back.

So, spend your time wisely.

No 3. “Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne

Meaning

Unknowing to you, your time flies past you. Days pass into months and months into years, rapidly.

You never understand that your have lost your time doing nothing.

But your failure is a harsh reminder of how your time has been wasted by you. 

No 4. “Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.” ― Roy T. Bennett

Meaning

You have grudge against someone who rubbed you the wrong way.

You are worried about your failures.

You are often angry when things do not go your way.

In the process of being concentrated on things that upset you, you fail to be happy.

Understand that your life too short to be spent worrying and being unhappy.

Spend your time, being happy and fulfilled.

No 5. “It has been said, ‘time heals all wounds.’ I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.” ― Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

Meaning

Many untoward things happen in your life.

You are time and again hurt by others. You lose your precious ones. You are cheated and betrayed by the person you trusted the most.

Such wounds take time to heal. And even if the wound heals, the memory of the hurt or loss remains within you.

Embers of fire, emanates heat. Likewise, your pain of loss or hurt might lessen as years go by, but it never disappears from you. That deep is your wound.

No 6. “Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.” ― Paulo Coelho

Meaning

People have pre-conceived thoughts about you. You cannot change it. And you need not change it. It would be a complete waste of your time.

Even if you explain, people will only conceive meaning to your explanations according to their mindset.  

No 7. “Time doesn’t heal emotional pain; you need to learn how to let go.” -― Roy T. Bennett

Meaning

Though they say that time heals every wound, your inner pain never goes away.

Your wound and pain remain within you.

But the only consoling part is that you learn to live with your pain.

No 8. A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” -― Charles Darwin

Meaning

When you waste your time, it just means that you have not understood that you are wasting your life.

Yes!

Time wasted is life wasted. Because wasting your time brings along with it wasted opportunities, wasted prospects and wasted openings.

9. Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.” ― Haruki Murakami

Meaning

Time waits for no one. It keeps ticking away. And with every ticking moment, your wasted present life goes into your past and your grim future is fast approaching.

Along with wasted time, your regrets about your wasted opportunities are getting larger and larger.

No 10. “You may delay, but time will not.” ― Benjamin Franklin

Meaning

You can delay your work. You can delay grabbing your opportunities. But time waits for none. It flies past you, whether you work for your success or not.

No 11. “Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.” ― William Penn

Meaning

Most of you want more time in your life. You act as though you do not have enough time.

But in reality, time is something you waste the most, doing nothing and thereby becoming a nothing.

No 12. There are memories that time does not erase… Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.” ― Cassandra Clare, C

Meaning

Memories cannot be lost. It stays within you.

Time does not lessen the pain you felt for your loss.

The pain you feel just gets more tolerable.

No 13. “Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.” ― Anthony Doerr

Meaning

Time waits for no one. When let go your time without utilizing it, it disappears from your life, forever.

Beautiful quotes about time, isn’t it?

No 14. “Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.” ― M. Scott Peck

Meaning

You will not waste your time only when you know your worth.

You must understand that each and every ticking moment of your life should be doing the work of  making you succeed.

When you do not this basic technique to succeed, you will be wasting your time.

No 15. “Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower

Meaning

Most of you spend your life thinking and brooding about people who harmed you. This is complete waste of time.

Your time is precious. Do not waste it thinking about people who mean nothing to you.

Conclusion

Did these quotes about time teach that every second of your life is precious?

Make optimum use of your time to get optimum success and optimum happiness. You owe yourself that much.

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