This page lists my all-time favorite time quotes to make the most of your life today.
You can find links to more intentional living quotes at the bottom of this page.
When you’re ready to dive deeper, here’s some recommended reading on time:
20+ Time Quotes to Make the Most of Your Life Today
“One day or day one.” — Paulo Coelho
“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of.” — Benjamin Franklin
“Time isn’t the main thing. It’s the only thing.” — Miles Davis
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” — Annie Dillard
“One day is equal to every day.” — Heraclitus
“What gets scheduled gets done.” — Daniel Pink
“An individual’s consumption of time is essentially the individual’s use of life.” — Adelle Yang & Christopher Hsee
“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.” — William Penn
“Life is long if you know how to use it.” — Seneca
“Life is long enough, and it has been given in sufficiently generous measure to allow the accomplishment of the very greatest things if the whole of it is well invested.” — Seneca
“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.” — Seneca
“We keep counting time. We have the sensation time is running out, and we bug ourselves with this. Time is nothing but an abstract measure of motion. We are living in an eternal now.” — Alan Watts
“Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future. The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune’s control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.” — Seneca
“Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.” — Bill Gates
“If a person gives you his time, he can give you no more precious gift.” — Frank Tyger
“Time is the singular measure of life … Knowing how to spend it well is possibly the most important skill you can have.” — Scott Berkun
“One day and again, who knows when, all will be over. You won’t be able to change a sentence of the story of your life.” — Gordon Marino
“Time is the new money.” — Richard Branson
“Think of all the years passed by in which you said to yourself ‘I’ll do it tomorrow,’ and how the gods have again and again granted you periods of grace of which you have not availed yourself. It is time to realize that you are a member of the Universe, that you are born of Nature itself, and to know that a limit has been set to your time. Use every moment wisely, to perceive your inner refulgence, or ’twill be gone and nevermore within your reach.” — Marcus Aurelius
“Observe, in short, how transient and trivial is all mortal life; yesterday a drop of semen, tomorrow a handful of spice or ashes. Spend, therefore, these fleeting moments of earth as Nature would have you spend them, and then go to your rest with a good grace, as an olive falls in its season, with a blessing for the earth.” — Marcus Aurelius
“But, as a matter of fact, you cannot compare this present experience with a past experience. You can only compare it with a memory of the past, which is a part of the present experience. When you see clearly that memory is a form of present experience, it will be obvious that trying to separate yourself from this experience is as impossible as trying to make your teeth bite themselves. To understand this is to realize that life is entirely momentary, that there is neither permanence nor security, and that there is no ‘I’ which can be protected.” — Alan Watts
“Slowness is the forgotten dimension to time. Unlike chronological time, it is non-linear, time here and now, time that works for you, extraordinary time. So why be fast when you can be slow? Slowness is also about balance, so if you must hurry, then hurry slowly.” — Geir Berthelsen
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