Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

- Borges, Jorge Luis

Best Quotes about Time

1.

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

Chanel, Coco

2.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

3.

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

4.

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

5.

What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

6.

What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

7.

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

8.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

9.

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

10.

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

11.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

12.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

13.

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

Baltasar Gracian

14.

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

15.

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

16.

A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

17.

Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

18.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

19.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

20.

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

21.

Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

22.

Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

23.

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

Maria Edgeworth

24.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

25.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

26.

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

27.

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

28.

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

Bible

29.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

31.

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

32.

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

Taylor, James

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

36.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

37.

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

38.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

39.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

40.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

41.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

42.

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

43.

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

44.

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

Zappa, Frank

45.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

46.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

47.

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

Rosenberg, Harold

48.

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

49.

Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

50.

Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David