Motivational Quotes

Time

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.

Best Quotes about Time

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

Arthorne, John

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

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

Fleming, Ian

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Frost, Robert

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bixton, Charles

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

13.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

14.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

15.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

16.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

17.

Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

18.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

19.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

20.

Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

21.

He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

22.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

23.

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

24.

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

Bible

25.

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

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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

27.

Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

28.

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

29.

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

30.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

31.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

32.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

33.

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

34.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

35.

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

Paz, Octavio

36.

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

37.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

38.

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

39.

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

Churchill, Winston

40.

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

41.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

43.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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