Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

1.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

2.

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

Arthorne, John

3.

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.

4.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

5.

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

6.

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

Chanel, Coco

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

Jonson, Ben

10.

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

11.

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

Bixton, Charles

12.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

13.

A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

14.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

15.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

16.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

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

18.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

19.

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

Wanamaker, John

20.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

24.

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

25.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

26.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

27.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

28.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

30.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

31.

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

Scottish Proverb

32.

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

33.

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

Rohn, Jim

34.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

35.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

36.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

37.

An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

38.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

39.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

40.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

41.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

42.

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

43.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

44.

Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

45.

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

46.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

47.

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

48.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

49.

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

Blake, William

50.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.