Motivational Quotes

Time

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

- Baltasar Gracian

Best Quotes about Time

1.

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

2.

Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

3.

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

4.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

5.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

6.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

7.

You love what you find time to do.

8.

Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

9.

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

10.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

11.

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

12.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

13.

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

14.

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

15.

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

16.

An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

17.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

18.

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

19.

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

21.

In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

22.

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

23.

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

24.

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

25.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

26.

If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

27.

Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

28.

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

29.

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

30.

Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

31.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

32.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

33.

When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

34.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

35.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

36.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

37.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

38.

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

39.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

40.

Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

41.

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

42.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

43.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

44.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

45.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

46.

Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

47.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

48.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

49.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

50.

We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.