Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

- Dryden, John

Best Quotes about Time

1.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

2.

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

3.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

4.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

5.

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

6.

Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

7.

What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

8.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

9.

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

10.

When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

11.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

12.

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

Lakein, Alan

13.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

14.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

15.

There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

16.

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

Kennedy, John F.

17.

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

18.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

19.

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.

20.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

24.

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

Bonnie Friedman

25.

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

26.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

27.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

28.

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

Lakein, Alan

29.

It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

30.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

31.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

32.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

33.

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

34.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

35.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

36.

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

Paz, Octavio

37.

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

Brown, John Mason

38.

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.

39.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

40.

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

Mark Twain

41.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

42.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

43.

Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

44.

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

45.

The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

46.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

47.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

48.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

49.

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