Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Bonnie Friedman

Best Quotes about Time

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

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

The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

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

Churchill, Winston

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

10.

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

11.

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

John F. Kennedy

12.

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

13.

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

Otway, Thomas

14.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

15.

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

16.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

17.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

18.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

19.

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

20.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

21.

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

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When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

23.

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

24.

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

25.

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

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Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

27.

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

28.

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

29.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

30.

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

Jef Mallett

31.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

32.

There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

33.

Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

34.

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

Wanamaker, John

35.

Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

36.

The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

38.

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

Tracy, Brian

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Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

40.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

41.

When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

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

Bible

44.

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

45.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

46.

Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

47.

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

48.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

49.

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

50.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid