Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Wilde, Oscar

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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

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

Chanel, Coco

I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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

Bonnie Friedman

When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

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

John F. Kennedy

10.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

11.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

13.

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

14.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

15.

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

16.

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

17.

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

18.

Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

19.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

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

Wells, H.G.

22.

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

Field, Franklin

23.

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

24.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

25.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

26.

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

Proverb, Polish

27.

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

Bixton, Charles

28.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

29.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

30.

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

31.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

33.

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

34.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

35.

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

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

Lakein, Alan

37.

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

38.

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

Arthorne, John

39.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

40.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

41.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

42.

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

43.

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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.

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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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert