Motivational Quotes

Time

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

- Duras, Marguerite

Best Quotes about Time

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Pitman

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

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

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

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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

Orben, Robert

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

10.

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

Frost, Robert

11.

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

Ovid

12.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

13.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

14.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

15.

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

16.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

17.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

19.

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

Rosenberg, Harold

20.

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

21.

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

Lakein, Alan

22.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

23.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

24.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

25.

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

Spencer, Herbert

26.

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

Cowley, Abraham

27.

When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

28.

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

29.

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

Townsend, Robert

30.

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

31.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

32.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

33.

Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

34.

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

35.

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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.

39.

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

40.

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

Mark Twain

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

44.

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

45.

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

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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

47.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

48.

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

49.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.