Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Fleming, Ian

Best Quotes about Time

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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

Kennedy, John F.

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Orben, Robert

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

10.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

14.

The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

15.

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

Taylor, James

16.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

17.

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

18.

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

Wells, H.G.

19.

Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

20.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

21.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

22.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

23.

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

Fleming, Ian

24.

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

Buxton, Charles

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

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

John F. Kennedy

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

34.

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

35.

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

Dickens, Charles

36.

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

37.

If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

38.

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

39.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

40.

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

Lakein, Alan

41.

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

42.

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

44.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

45.

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

Jonson, Ben

46.

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