Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

- Herbert, George

Best Quotes about Time

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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

Cowley, Abraham

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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

Bonnie Friedman

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

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

Schwartz, Delmore

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

10.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

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

12.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

13.

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

14.

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

15.

Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

16.

He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

17.

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

18.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

19.

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

Book, William Frederick

20.

What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

21.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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.

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

24.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

25.

Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

26.

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

27.

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

Wilde, Oscar

28.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

29.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

30.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

31.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

32.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

33.

No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

34.

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

Malcolm Forbes

35.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

36.

One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

37.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

38.

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

Dane, Frank

39.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

40.

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.

41.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

42.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

43.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

44.

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

Pitman

45.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

46.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

47.

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

William Shakespeare

48.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

49.

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

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee