Motivational Quotes

Time

A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Time

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Kennedy, John F.

I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

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

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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

Cowley, Abraham

Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

10.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

11.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

12.

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

13.

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

John F. Kennedy

14.

You must never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Buxton, Charles

15.

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

16.

It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

17.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

18.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

19.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

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.

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

22.

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

Bonnie Friedman

23.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

24.

You love what you find time to do.

25.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

26.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

27.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

28.

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

29.

Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

30.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

31.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

32.

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

33.

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

35.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

36.

If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

37.

We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

38.

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

39.

What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

40.

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

41.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

42.

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

43.

Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

44.

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

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When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

46.

There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.