Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Jef Mallett

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

Blake, William

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Hodgson, Ralph

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

10.

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.

11.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

12.

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

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The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

14.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

15.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

16.

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

Otway, Thomas

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

20.

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

21.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

22.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

23.

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

Proverb, Polish

24.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

25.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

26.

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

Lakein, Alan

27.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

29.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

30.

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

31.

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

35.

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

Wilde, Oscar

36.

No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

37.

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

Field, Franklin

38.

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

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One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

40.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

41.

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

42.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

43.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

44.

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

45.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

46.

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

Kennedy, John F.

47.

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

Bixton, Charles

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.