Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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

Bible

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

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

10.

While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

11.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

12.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

13.

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

14.

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

Plutarch

15.

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

16.

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

Proverb, French

17.

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

18.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

20.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

21.

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

22.

I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

23.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

24.

A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

26.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

30.

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

31.

Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

32.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

33.

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.

34.

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

35.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

36.

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

37.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

41.

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

Chanel, Coco

42.

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

43.

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

44.

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

45.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

46.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

47.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

48.

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