57 Time Quotes Page 2

Welcome to page 2 of our time quotes collection, where you will find thoughtful words about how time shapes life, choices, faith, and the moments we are given.

Time is one of life's greatest gifts. We all receive the same hours in a day, yet how we use them often makes a great difference in what our lives become. These time quotes remind us that each day matters, and each moment offers us a chance to learn, grow, love, and move forward.

In this second page of time quotes, you will find words about patience, purpose, waiting, memories, planning, and making wise choices. Some may make you pause and think, while others may encourage you to value today and use your time well.

Updated September 8, 2026, by Catherine Pulsifer.

Valuing The Time We Are Given

These quotes remind us that time is a gift. How we use our days, make choices, and move forward can shape the life we build.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
William Penn

Onward, as the ages roll. Ever onward to each goal: ever on the beaten track, where there is no turning back.
Fred R. Goddard, The Mission Of The Soul

We think we're wasting precious time and grumble terribly - because we think we're fitted for a higher destiny . . but God did not despise the doing of the tiny things
Patience Strong

It is up to everyone to decide, to choose how to use their valuable time. It is your choice.
Byron Pulsifer

The years ticked by, time how it flys, but the day has arrived and you'll survive.
Catherine Pulsifer, Over The Hill

And a thousand years are like a day that is hard to understand, you say - God sees the present and the future which makes His timing such a treasure.
Catherine Pulsifer, God's Time

Time is allotted to each one of us – no one "underchanged;" A child wants to rush into his youth, yet time is not rearranged.
Greta Zwaan, Time

The past is simply a time that has gone by. It is not a predictor of the future unless that is what you believe.
Byron Pulsifer

For Age is not alone of time, or we should never see men old and bent at forty and men young at seventy-three
Edgar A. Guest, Old Age

At some time or other the Lord will provide: it may not be my time, it may not be thy time, and yet, in his own time, "The Lord will provide."
Mrs. M. A. W. Cook, The Lord Will Provide

The only difference between a rich person and a poor person is how they use their time.
Robert Kiyosaki

Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.
Zane Grey

Time, Purpose And What Lasts

Time has a way of revealing what matters. These words reflect on purpose, legacy, seasons, relationships, and the value of using our minutes well.

We know how fast you will grow - time will not slow but as the years do pass our love for you will always last!
Catherine Pulsifer, Our Baby

Deep thinking needs time and focus.
Dave Coplin, Business Reimagined

Not one great act, nor golden deed, one glowing speech that was sublime, shall be the only thing we'll need to stand the wear of time.
Howard Carleton Tripp, Our Worth

River is time in water; as it came, still so it flows, yet never is the same.
Barten Holyday

Each season has its own delight not to be hurried through or wishing that its' passing would be over in a flash of time. Life is to be lived fully; to be embraced and celebrated and not to be detested.
Byron Pulsifer

By devoting time and attention to a mentoring relationship, both parties reap deeply powerful and meaningful rewards
Ivan Misner, The Networking Mentor

The only good thing about punctuality is that it usually gets you an apology.
Unknown

Who uses minutes has hours to use - who loses minutes whole years must lose.
Unknown, The Minutes

Our legacy is how we spend our time and who we spend it with.
Jim Stengel

You can't cheat time. You can't put off today what you can do tomorrow without a cost.
Jeremy Lubremeyer

Time flies. The swift hours hurry by and speed us on to untried ways
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Time and Love

Using Time Wisely

These quotes encourage us not to waste the hours before us. Preparation, patience, focus, and steady effort can help us make better use of each day.

We focus on Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday, but we forget to pause in the stillness of the days between. Find time today to be present in that place of waiting.
Katherine J Walden

A day is too long to be spent in vain; some good should come as the hours go by
Unknown, How Easy It Is!

Adopted and foster children needs lots of individualized, focused time with their parents in order to catch up developmentally and to form close and loyal family bonds.
Wendy Lyons Sunshine, The Connected Child

Do not worry, do not fret, time will pass and we'll forget
Unknown, Take It Easy

Time has been given to us as a sacred covenant, that if wasted will haunt us throughout eternity, in the form of regret
Steven Redhead

"Simplifying your life gives you more time for what you really do want time and energy for (like exercising, or reading, or taking a class). "
Kathy Gate

The time spent in preparation extends the fishing outing and is a valuable way to avoid leaving something behind.
Sara Low, A Guide's Guide to Fly-Fishing Mistakes

"Habitual multitasking might save you some time, but it might also compromise the quality of work."
Philip Vang

Better to strive and climb, and never reach the goal, than to drift along with time, an aimless, worthless soul.
Unknown, Better To Climb and Fail

We should waste no moments in weak regret
Mary Lowe Dickinson, If We Had But A Day

Guard every minute well...for time is never cheap
Edgar A. Guest, Paradoxical

Planning, Faith And Making Time

Some things require planning, patience, prayer, and quiet thought. These quotes remind us to make time for what strengthens our lives and helps us move forward.

A library cannot be made all at once, any more than a house or a nation or a tree; they must all take time to grow, and so must a library.
George MacDonald

We must plan ahead financially because we change our minds over time. What invigorates me today may bore me a decade from today.
Mitch Anthony, The New Retirementality

You may not have a lot of free time, but any time you can give lessens the burden on many others.
Byron Pulsifer

In many ways, September feels like the busiest time of the year: The kids go back to school, work piles up after the summer’s dog days, and Thanksgiving is suddenly upon us.
Brene Brown

And while we’re floating down the tide of Time’s fast ebbing river, let’s pluck the flowers that grace its side, and thank the gracious Giver.
Sarah T. Bolton, A Lesson Worth Enshrining

Away from the city, its noise and its grime, its hustle and bustle and swift race with time.
Wilhelmina Stitch

A measure of time to squander or use is given to us - it's our job to choose.
William Arthur Ward

In order for you to be productive and know what God is calling you to do, you must get in that secret place and spend time consecrating yourself before him and listen to his direction.
Terrelle Smith, Becoming a Better Me

Keep moving on; time is a friend - looking back you will see it was good to end.
Catherine Pulsifer, Good To End

To conclude our garden, we must have thyme: Thyme for God - thyme for study - thyme for prayer
Unknown, Plant For A Good Life

Meditation is a way of taking time to become aware of our thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations, then allowing ourselves to drop into a deeper level of being.
Shakti Gawain, The Path of Transformation How Healing Ourselves Can Change The World

While one person moves through life spending many waking hours investing their time towards the securing of a goal, another person squanders available time by watching T.V., or some other activity that consumes time but not uses effectively.
Byron Pulsifer

The hand of time may lay you low before you sing your song. But what your heart has wished to start some day will move the throng;
David V. Bush, Uncrowned

Time, Memories And Simple Moments

Looking back often shows us that the little moments mattered more than we realized. These final quotes reflect on memories, family, friendship, learning, and enjoying the time we have.

Many great thinkers have had their most profound moments in times of silence and solitude.
Robert A. Eubanks

In life when you look back you realize it is the little things that children will remember. It is not the gifts, the new bikes, but it is the time spent doing little things
Catherine Pulsifer

Time does go quickly more than we realize it - so live each day to the limit!
Catherine Pulsifer, Every Ten Years

For each person on this earth, time is measured in the same way, in the same quantity, and without any means by which to speed it up or slow it down.
Byron Pulsifer

I thank the Lord that I have time for things that pay no dividends, for song and book and sunset gleam and sweet companionship of friends.
Douglas Malloch, Leisure

"The hours Time stole away." A curious phrase this seems. Did Time then wish to play with my sweet dreams?
Wilhelmina Stitch

"So take some time, to sit and unwind, so you can see what you've learned from."
Julie Hebert, Lifes Failures

My time with you has meant so much, I only wish it didn't have to end.
Julie Hebert

The Universe, as an immeasurable wheel turning forevermore in the rapid and rushing river of Time.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, How Beautiful is the Rain

Time is the longest distance between two places.
Tennessee Williams

Conclusion

Time passes quickly, often faster than we realize. These quotes remind us to treasure the moments we have, use our days wisely, and remember that small choices made over time can shape a meaningful life. We cannot hold on to yesterday, but we can appreciate today and make the most of the time still before us.

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