Motivational Quotes

Time

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

- Chuck Sigars

Best Quotes about Time

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

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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

Ovid

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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

Marx, Groucho

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

12.

Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

13.

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

Jef Mallett

14.

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

15.

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

16.

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

Scottish Proverb

17.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

18.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

19.

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

20.

The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

21.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

22.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

23.

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

Bible

24.

If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

25.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

26.

A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

27.

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

28.

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

Wanamaker, John

29.

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

30.

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

31.

Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

32.

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

33.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

34.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

35.

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

Pitman

36.

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

37.

The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

38.

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

39.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

40.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

41.

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

Mark Twain

42.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

43.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

44.

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

45.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

46.

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

Otway, 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.

48.

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

49.

An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

50.

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

Baltasar Gracian