Quotes about time
261 quotes from 169 people
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Warren Buffettborn 1930Statement of January 1991, as quoted in Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett (2007) by Andrew Kilpatrick
Edmund Burke1729–1797Letter to a Member of the National Assembly (1791), Volume IV, p. 55.People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), Volume iii, p. 274There’s no present. There’s only the immediate future and the recent past.
Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
Dale Carnegie1888–1955How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1948), p. 237. Part 8: How I Conquered Worry
Jim Carreyborn 1962Carrey: ‘Life Is Too Beautiful’: Star Talks About Bouts With Depression And His Spirituality 60 Minutes (21 November 2004)
Lewis Carroll1832–1898Sylvie and Bruno (1889)It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday—but never jam to-day.
