Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Time

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Churchill, Winston

Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

10.

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

Wilde, Oscar

11.

Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

12.

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

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

Proverb, Polish

14.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

15.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

16.

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

17.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

18.

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.

19.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

20.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

21.

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.

22.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

23.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

24.

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

Ovid

25.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

26.

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

Brown, John Mason

27.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

28.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

29.

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

30.

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

31.

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

Plutarch

32.

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

33.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

34.

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

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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

36.

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

Fleming, Ian

37.

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

38.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

39.

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

Wanamaker, John

40.

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

Bonnie Friedman

41.

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

Scottish Proverb

42.

Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

43.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

44.

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

45.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

46.

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.

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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

48.

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

49.

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

Field, Franklin

50.

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