Culture and Lifestyle Quotes and Sayings 50 Quotes About Time Passing No matter how hard we try, time goes on. By Sierra Guardiola Sierra Guardiola Sierra is a writer and editor with many interests. She comes from a newspaper background and has over four years experience writing for magazines. She enjoys learning about new topics and providing readers with helpful tips and ideas. She has covered everything from how to make the best apple pie to transforming your outdoor space with a few key decorations. Southern Living's editorial guidelines Updated on May 1, 2024 Trending Videos Close this video player Photo: Getty Images Time always seems to be flying by, with no possibility of slowing down. It's difficult to shake the feeling that time is fleeting. It seems that there is either not enough time, or too much time wasted, but never is it just the right amount. But take it from us: It's time to toss that mindset out the door and begin to live in the moment. Take advantage of time and own it. If it feels like time isn't on your side, or if you've been working to embrace the fleeting nature of it, these quotes will offer comfort and wisdom into how to make peace with the passing of time. 01 of 06 Quotes About Time Fleeting Southern Living "Seize the day, then let it go." – Marty Rubin"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is." – C.S. Lewis"Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new." – Paracelsus"One day, you're 17 and you're planning for someday. And then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life." – John Green“Time moves slowly but passes quickly.” – Alice Walker“Everybody knows that once you passed it, you can’t go back.” – Claire Cook“But meanwhile, time flies; it flies never to be regained.” – Virgil“Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.” – Jean de La Bruyère 02 of 06 Quotes About Being Present Southern Living "The future starts today, not tomorrow." – Pope John Paul II"The present time has one advantage over every other – it is our own." – Charles Caleb Colton"Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream." – Khalil Gibran“Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.” – Bill Keane“The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry“You may delay, but time will not.” – Benjamin Franklin“Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.” –Dale CarnegieThis time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson“I always live in the present. The future I can’t know. The past I no longer have.” – Fernando Pessoa“In life, when presented with any situation, breathe, take your time, focus and then decide what to do.” – Rickson Gracie 03 of 06 Humorous Quotes About Time Southern Living "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana." – Anthony G. Oettinger“We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.” – John F. Kennedy“Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.” – Coco Chanel“Be like a postage stamp — stick to one thing until you get there.” — Josh Billings“Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat." – Jean-Paul Sartre“By faithfully working eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.”– Robert Frost“For disappearing acts, it’s hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.” – Doug Larson“You can have it all. Just not all at once.” – Oprah Winfrey 04 of 06 Quotes About Using Time Wisely Southern Living "Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time." – Marthe Troly-Curtin"Although we try to control it in a million different ways, the only things you can ever really do to time are enjoy it, or waste it. That's it." – A.J. Compton“Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.” – William Shakespeare“Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time,’ is to say, ‘I don’t want to.’” – Lao Tzu“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.” – Bruce Lee“One must work with time and not against it.“ – Ursula K. Le Guin“The shorter way to do many things is to only do one thing at a time.” – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart“The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: ‘I did not have time.’” – Franklin Field“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson 05 of 06 Sayings About The Value Of Time Southern Living "Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got." – Art Buchwald"I give you this to take with you: Nothing remains as it was. If you know this, you can begin again, with pure joy in the uprooting." – Judith Minty"Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back." – Harvey Mackay"You have got to own your days and live them, each one of them, every one of them, or else the years go by and none of them belong to you." – Herb Gardner"No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away." – Haruki Murakami"The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it." – Niccolo Machiavelli“‘Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.” – Timothy Ferriss 06 of 06 Quotes On The Effects Of Time Southern Living "It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary." – Veronica Roth"Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments." – Rose Kennedy"Time does not pass, it continues." – Marty Rubin"Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind." – Nathaniel Hawthorne“The past always looks better than it was. It’s only pleasant because it isn’t here.” – Finley Peter Dunne“If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?”– John Wooden“It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?”― Henry David Thoreau“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” – Andy Warhol 65 Courage Quotes To Motivate And Inspire Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Tell us why! Other Submit