Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Ovid

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

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

Mark Twain

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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

Churchill, Winston

The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

10.

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

Tracy, Brian

11.

You love what you find time to do.

12.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

13.

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

14.

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

15.

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

Bonnie Friedman

16.

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.

17.

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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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

19.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

20.

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

Blake, William

21.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Orben, Robert

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.

Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

25.

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.

26.

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

Proverb, English

27.

I am what you will be, I was what you are.

28.

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

Malcolm Forbes

29.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

30.

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

31.

A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

32.

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

33.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

34.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

35.

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

Townsend, Robert

36.

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

Field, Franklin

37.

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

38.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

39.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

40.

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

41.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

44.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

45.

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

William Shakespeare

46.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

47.

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

48.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

49.

How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

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

Proverb, Polish