Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

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

Taylor, James

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

Bergman, Jack

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

Proverb, French

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

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

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

10.

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

Dickens, Charles

11.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

12.

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

Blake, William

13.

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

14.

He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

15.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

16.

A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

17.

The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

18.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Pitman

22.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

23.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

24.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

25.

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

26.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

27.

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

28.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

29.

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

Scottish Proverb

30.

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

31.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

32.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

33.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

34.

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

Dane, Frank

35.

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

36.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

37.

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

38.

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

Kennedy, John F.

39.

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

William Shakespeare

40.

Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

41.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

42.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

43.

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

44.

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.

45.

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

46.

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

Plutarch

47.

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

Frost, Robert

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.