Motivational Quotes

Time

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

- Field, Franklin

Best Quotes about Time

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

You love what you find time to do.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Wanamaker, John

We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

10.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

11.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

13.

Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

14.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

15.

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

16.

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

17.

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

Schwartz, Delmore

18.

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

19.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

20.

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

21.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

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

Dane, Frank

24.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

25.

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

26.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

27.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

28.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

29.

Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

30.

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

Kennedy, John F.

31.

Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

32.

To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

33.

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

Bonnie Friedman

34.

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

Orben, Robert

35.

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

36.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

37.

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

Mark Twain

38.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

39.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

40.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

41.

The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

42.

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

43.

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

Scottish Proverb

44.

The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

45.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

46.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

47.

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

48.

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

49.

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

50.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb